Sentence examples for operated as a parallel from inspiring English sources

The laundries operated as a parallel prison system to which the Irish courts routinely sent women who were handed down suspended sentences for petty crimes.

The sanctions system is, in effect, operating as a parallel punishment system, judged in secret by officials.

Administration officials nonetheless concede there is much they do not know about an institution that is hardly a monolith and that operates as a parallel economy, a kind of "Military Inc.," involved in the production of electronics, household appliances, clothing and food.

The NCA answers directly to the Home Secretary, meaning there can be no local oversight or control - and nationalist parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly said that it could operate as a parallel but unaccountable police force.

More than a year before the Iraq war began, Mr. Feith set up an Office of Special Plans, inside of which was a secret team that operated as a kind of parallel intelligence agency with a particular focus on Iraq.

A quantum computer essentially operates as a massive parallel processing machine that can work on millions of calculations simultaneously.

This study is aimed at rigorously testing whether clathrin-independent endocytosis operates as a sizable parallel uptake route to clathrin-mediated endocytosis.

The new venture promises to bring back a film and television label that until the late 1990s was operated as a fully staffed studio, run in parallel with the Columbia Pictures unit of Sony.

The move promises to reboot a film and television label that until the late 1990s was operated as a fully staffed studio, run in parallel with Sony's Columbia Pictures unit.

The group operated as a social club.

These dreamscapes operate as a kind of parallel universe, taking us back to the oppressive atmosphere of 19th-century slavery, with its humiliations and brutality.