Sentence examples for operative because from inspiring English sources

Then there was that time he played a part in outing a covert CIA operative because her husband spoke ill of the Bush administration.

A recent court filing by the S.E.C., however, suggests that GKM Newport turned to an unnamed political operative because it was told to do so by Mr. Loglisci.

It's my understanding that Fitzgerald didn't indict Libby for revealing the identity of a CIA operative because there's no evidence that Libby knew of her covert status.

This alacrity stands in sharp contrast with their evident lack of concern when a senior administration official, still unknown, blew the cover of a C.I.A. operative because her husband had revealed some politically inconvenient facts.

He said that means the final counts for 16 states - especially - could prove operative because all are relatively close to the edge of either gaining or losing a seat.

In this case, the proposition is true relative to a context of assessment where what Sandra knows is operative a context in which Sandra is the evaluator and false relative to a context of assessment where what I know is operative because I am the evaluator.

Enis is called a co-operative because in 1981 a 20-strong band of young idealistic locals – students, unemployed and shepherds – took over an abandoned building.

Vegetarian animals are much less co-operative because they don't need to be.

They say that they developed the idea for a "workers' co-operative" because the private takeover offers were manifestly unsatisfactory.

In an Ottoman house in Salfit, a town of 12,000 in the shadow of Ariel, one of the West Bank's biggest Jewish settlements, Ms Shqeirat, one of Riwaq's promoters, has torn down ugly concrete additions and used local material to restore arches, crannies and balconies.She has entrusted the building to a local women's co-operative because "women look after buildings better than men".

Downey was well known to the Chinese operatives because he had trained them.