Sentence examples for operations devised from inspiring English sources

The history of these risky "gun walking" operations — devised by the federal Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco Firearms and Explosives to try to track illicit gun-shop purchases in Arizona to the cartel bosses — was spelled out to Congress by Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's criminal division.

More specifically, robustness can be defined as the degree of resistance of a watermarking scheme to modifications of the host signal due to either common signal processing techniques or operations devised specifically in order to render the watermark undetectable [63].

All these investigations involve money stolen from the Brazilian people, and not financial operations devised to obtain financial resources for the "Bolsa Família" and other social programs.

The operation, devised in large part by a former Marine colonel named Oliver North, was not without lapses in tradecraft.

The shooting occurred during an operation devised to arrest wanted Palestinian activists in the camp, the Israeli army said in a statement.

WASHINGTON — The White House has prepared more than a dozen contingency plans to help guide President-elect Barack Obama if an international crisis erupts in the opening days of his administration, part of an elaborate operation devised to smooth the first transition of power since Sept. 11, 2001.

One model of a slimmed-down Scots military operation, devised by Stuart Crawford, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Royal Tank Regiment, and economist Richard Marsh, suggests Scotland could defend itself with a slimmed down military, making savings worth about £1.3bn, with: Army one-third size of Denmark.

Next in order came the useful and practical operation devised by Royal Whitman, astragalectomy and backward displacement of the foot.

NATO's response to allegations of mistaken attacks had long been carefully worded denials and insistence that its operations were devised and supervised with exceptional care.

The government decree establishing the moratorium on bank and foreign exchange operations was devised with a loophole that allows depositors to withdraw $65 from automated tellers every week.

Under law, covert actions may be carried out only with presidential authorization and Congressional notification, and those operations are devised so that American government involvement is disguised and meant never to be acknowledged.