The American government continued running a semicovert logistics and intelligence operation to extend the Ugandan army's reach so it could chase Mr. Kony across the region.
France, which currently has troops in Mali, has said it will send a small team to Nigeria as well as deploying 3,000 troops in the region to fight terrorism, with its operations expected to extend across the Sahel belt, which includes Mali, Niger and Chad.
The purpose of Freund's hysterectomy was twofold: first, to root out the disease by removing not only the cancerous tissue, but also a good margin of apparently healthy tissue (hence the term "radical operation"); second, to extend the field of operability.
ExxonMobil's local operation wants to extend its contract to exploit the Cepu oil field.
The JNA also planned to airlift 44 truckloads of weapons from Željava Air Base to Gorski kotar and raise a combat brigade there in support of the operation and to extend their control into Gorski kotar.
Sprewell, however, may be looking for Layden, the team's president and general manager, and Steve Mills, the president of team sports operations at Madison Square Garden, to extend the olive branch.
"Some surgeons might have been tempted to try heroic measures like a salvage operation to try to extend her life, but Dr. Pack did not treat Evita like a V.I.P.," Dr. Lerner said.
While he was enforcing party discipline with his formidable whip operation, Mr. DeLay sought to extend that loyalty outside the House by pressing trade associations and lobbying groups to hire Republicans.
As compared with the traditional RFFIEF devices developed about 25 years ago, the new ReFFIEF system showed several merits, such as simple design and structure, user-friendly operation and easy to extend as well as low cost.
