Sentence examples for professional operatives from inspiring English sources

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".

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".

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.

But it is also because in the various losing camps, the participants, most of them professional political operatives with careers to think of, have an interest in getting their side of the story out before any former colleague has a chance to dump the blame on them.

These factors have made super PACs attractive vehicles for professional political operatives — as well as less ideologically driven individuals hoping to profit off of popular candidates.