Sentence examples for operation was underway from inspiring English sources

On Sunday evening Toby claimed a "major police operation" was underway in Acton.

We have also worked hard to ensure minimal impact on our customers while this operation was underway".

They say an eviction operation was underway when a crowd of people gathered and then began verbally abusing and threatening the evictors with violence.

Abdul Mutalib, the district governor of Marja, said a military operation was underway in the area where the bomb went off.

As a major rescue operation was underway to save the lives of 700 people on a capsized ship in the Mediterranean, Katie Hopkins has suggested that the best way to solve the issue would be to burn all the boats in north Africa.

As this deadly operation was underway, the outside world was largely silent and unaware of what was happening.

The footage was shot from a helicopter over the remote Canadian tar sands, where a massive operation is underway to extract oil from beneath forest and wetlands.

A rescue operation is underway to catch and treat a rare and ailing Vietnamese turtle that is revered as a powerful symbol of the nation's independence struggle.

More here 8.48am BST Photograph: JOHN KOLESIDIS/REUTERS Over in Greece, a clear-up operation is underway outside a tax office in Kifisia, the northen suburb of Athens, after a bomb exploded in the early hours of the morning.

"Once an extraction operation is underway, it creates an incentive to continue so as to recoup investment and create profit, ensuring the product – the fossil fuels – are extracted and burned.

Outside, a convoy of about three dozen vigilantes are preparing to leave for the evening's patrol, and the excitement inside the cramped, humid office is palpable: the men say they have received a tip that a smuggling operation is underway.