Sentence examples for operative like from inspiring English sources

And charges of plagiarizing a GOP standard-bearer like Gingrich and a respected operative like Shirley seem likely to further widen a developing rift between the Alaska governor and the national GOP.

Maybe this was why Beyoncé was coerced (by her management or a CIA operative like yourself) into singing to a vocal she had already pre-recorded.

Scratch beneath that surface, however, and the voters here have an independent, ornery and unpredictable streak that has bedeviled candidates and provided a vexing training ground for some of the political world's A-list consultants: from a Republican operative like Ed Rollins to Democrats like Paul Begala and James Carville.

California has changed a lot since the early hard-boiled private eyes first turned over that crime turf, but it's still fertile ground for a modern operative like Jack Liffey, a Vietnam veteran whose ingrained decency makes him a natural for tracing missing children.

A French candidacy is the equivalent of a Democratic Party operative like David Axelrod calling Katrina vanden Huevel at home and begging her with a straight face to lead the Democrats to the White House.

So why on earth, with so much growing uncertainty in the country about our ability to contain the spread of Ebola given the CDC's shortcomings, would the president name a political operative like Ron Klain as the new "Ebola czar"?

That makes him a target for the Tea Party; but he won easily.Mr Tillis received financial backing from a group run by Karl Rove, an operative who likes to back winners.

Intelligence and law enforcement officials say they now believe that Al Qaeda operatives like Mr. Muhammad are operating independently, out from under the control of the bin Laden chain of command, which may no longer exist as a working command structure as it did in Afghanistan.

The Republican message machine learned, through a great deal of strategic thinking by very smart operatives like Frank Luntz and Dave Winston, that people are a lot more likely to listen and remember what you're saying if what you're saying connects to things they care about.

W. is always one step back, ambling behind his jagged-edge operatives like Karl Rove and Warren Tompkins -- a pal of Lee Atwater who ran the ruthless South Carolina operation and is now in Florida to tar Mr. Gore as anti-military.

Until five years ago, Viterra was known as the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, and was a farmer-owned co-operative (like the CWB).