Sentence examples for point for operations from inspiring English sources

The new base became a depot, training base and staging point for operations of the Union Army in the West.

It used small businesses and relief organizations to subsidize and conceal its activities, and it made the country a jumping-off point for operations in other countries in the region.

The latest spat erupted after a speech Mr. McFaul delivered this week at Moscow's Higher School of Economics in which he stated flatly that the Russian government had given a "large bribe" to the government of Kyrgyzstan in 2009 to close an American military base that is a crucial staging point for operations in Afghanistan.

He said this area - deep in Iraq's Sunni heartland - would be the "starting point" for operations, but that much planning remained to be done.

He and his partner Paul Sevigny, the gentlemen behind the Kenmare, recently took over operations at Don Hill's and they were using Fashion Week as a starting point for Operation Take Back the Night.

American officials said that the C.I.A. base had been a focal point for counterterrorism operations against the Haqqani network, a particularly lethal militant group that operates on both sides of the Afghan border.

"Isis used Jarabulus as a starting point for its operations in Turkey," says Hamdan.

Not only did locals consider the 2.3-acre property to be public property, the county used the land as a staging point for dredging operations.

During the American Civil War the city became a point for guerrilla operations and was frequented by border outlaws such as W.C. Quantrill and Jesse James; the latter was killed (1882) in his home there (which has been preserved).

Bonaparte believed that by establishing a permanent presence in Egypt (nominally part of the neutral Ottoman Empire) the French would obtain a staging point for future operations against British India, possibly in conjunction with the anglophobic Tipu Sultan of Seringapatam, that might successfully drive the British out of the war.

Train lengths in North America have traditionally been much longer than in Europe reflecting the geographical context and the nature of the operations (largely unscheduled with freight awaiting a justification point for an operation to be undertaken) although there has been a recent move towards many more scheduled operations.