Sentence examples for professional operative from inspiring English sources

Kellyanne Conway stood in for the amoral professional operative.

"This reinforces an image of McGreevey who is a professional operative or a hack politician instead of being a civic statesman," said David Rebovich, director of the Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University.

(She is perhaps, a better model of a "winner" than the candidate she is now endeavoring to "save from himself").. Amid a clear-eyed assessment of her skills, Time magazine's Alex Altman and Zeke Miller write, "[While] Conway isn't the first professional operative to be handed the role [of campaign manager], she seems at least so far to be breaking through in ways her predecessors could not".

Al Qaeda has always functioned on multiple levels, he said, from professional operatives to trained amateurs to local walk-ins inspired by Mr. bin Laden.

Charles Unwin, a clerk for one of the professional operatives in a vast, sterile agency, does his best to obey the manual when he's promoted to detective, intent on finding his predecessor, who has vanished.

** "If a confused young man from Marin County can join up with Al Qaeda, Arquillaa wrote, referring to John Walker Lindh, the twenty-year-old Californian who was seized in Afghanistan, "think what professional operatives might do".

Now, I am not a polling junkie or a professional political operative.

But why would a bunch of Obama administration alums even bother with a professional Republican operative in the first place?

Openly disdainful of professional political operatives, Mr. Gingrich employs almost none of them after a mass exodus of aides in June nearly derailed his candidacy.

"If they had been professional espionage operatives whose cover was blown then they might have been sent to work in closed training establishments run by the intelligence services," he said.

Later that afternoon, a fund-raiser open to the public at the Flying Saucer, another Fort Worth bar, turned out to be precisely the sort of thing that professional political operatives plan — a venue filled with at least three times the number of people it's supposed to accommodate.