Sentence examples for operated as though from inspiring English sources

Rather than exposing a political machine that was attempting to conceal its operations, the Guardian found one that operated as though it were doing what was necessary and proper to win elections after Citizens United.

American managers, Mr. Issawi said, operated as though they were "in a vacuum" and "were responsible for everything".

One Western diplomat said Monday that some Pakistani nuclear scientists operated as though they were running "Nukes 'R' Us".

"The industry has been operated as though these were products, not companies with shareholders," said Don Phillips, a managing director of Morningstar Inc. in Chicago.

After Mr. Morsi persuaded the military to yield him full powers last August, he and his Brotherhood allies increasingly operated as though his narrow electoral victory gave them a mandate to override their civilian opposition.

The inclusion of charter schools — which are publicly funded but privately operated — as though they were the neighborhood school down the block, expands the definition of what it means to be a public school.

They tremble, and they do everything imaginable to try to seem at ease, and basically therefore end up in this weird spiral where they operate as though, at any moment, it's all going to explode.

That is a reasonable approach, and localities around the country with sanctuary policies — there are some 300 of them, though few operate as unyieldingly as San Francisco — should take note.

Their average capacity factor (a measure of the amount of electricity produced compared with the capacity installed) is 73%, though some operate as high as 96%.

Our schools operate as though we remain in an agricultural age.

Theater can't operate as though it was business as usual.