Sentence examples for operations hit from inspiring English sources

The reduction in its overall operations hit the firm's operating profit, which fell 28 percent, to £826 million, in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period in 2012.

Cash flow from operations hit $1.8 billion in the quarter, while free cash flow, which includes capital expenditures, dividends and other cash payments, reached $1.4 billion and added nearly $400 million to Tyco's cash position.

The report said two operations "hit the most important stronghold of Shiite militias in Damascus".

But with the shrinking of Ford's core United States business nearly done, Mr. Mulally is eager to get its global operations hitting on all cylinders.

Australia's attorney general has defended new laws criminalising reporting about special intelligence operations, hitting back at criticisms from the "usual suspects of the paranoid fantasist left" but also "reputable conservative commentators".

"Its battlefield strategy is complex and adaptive, employing a mix of terrorist operations, hit-and-run tactics and paramilitary assaults to enable the group's rapid gains," Matthew Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said last week at the Brookings Institution.

It's also a currency that is being mined at a faster and faster rate, with current virtual mining operations hitting 122% yields.

And thousands of Iraqi Kurdish pesh merga fighters have taken up positions in the Mateen Mountains, ready for a counterattack, their local commanders say, should any Turkish operation hit civilians.

The median age of cars in operation hit a record 9.4 years in 2008, up from 9.2 in 2007, while the percentage of cars taken out of circulation fell to 5.1percentt, from 5.5percentt in 2007, according to figures released on March 3 by the research firm R. L. Polk & Company.

The cost of the policing operation hit more than £2.3m.

A year later, Gigli's operation hit a bump, and McQueen, out of work, returned to London.