Bridgman's ideal was to operationalize each and every concept if possible, and each case of de-operationalization rang alarm bells in his head.
But Howard Nielson, the lawyer for the defense, brought out a binder full of studies to make the argument that, as he put it, sounding like postmodern academic, "social scientists conceive of sexual orientation as a complex, multi-faceted phenomenon, and operationalize it in a variety of ways".
Upon announcing the collaboration, in 2011, a Conservancy spokesperson declared that "nature is a source for sustainable business value," and the chairman of Dow expressed hope that the partnership would provide help in "operationalizing sustainability".
The blockade prevented additional materiel from coming in but did nothing to stop the Soviets from operationalizing the missiles already there.
This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized.
"So how do you operationalize all of this?" he asks his staff.
At times, he spoke as if he were a management consultant, describing the next six months as Phase 2 of his governorship and talking of the need to "operationalize" his agenda.
Ms. Mukherjee said, "What makes this proprietary is the way we've operationalized it to be a business strategy and not just about marketing".
After listening to one of Jones's passionate briefings, the general asked for the microphone and congratulated his host for "truly understanding and operationalizing counterinsurgency theory".
The Army has gone so far as to embed credentialed social scientists with front-line troops in "Human Terrain Teams" that engage in "rapid ethnographic assessment" — conducting interviews and administering surveys, learning about land disputes, social networks and how to "operationalize" the Pashtun tribal code.
