Sentence examples for sanctioned operation from inspiring English sources

The theory is that the killing was not a sanctioned operation.

For Crown Prince Mohammed, the war ranks as a calamitous blunder, alongside the failed embargo he led against Qatar, the kidnapping of the Lebanese prime minister and now, as mounting evidence suggests, the officially sanctioned operation that led to the death of Mr. Khashoggi in Istanbul.

The UN has sanctioned operations to dislodge Rwandan rebels in the east.

"Graceland" feels like an officially sanctioned guerrilla operation (Mitchell).

He is alleged to have sanctioned an operation to obtain information about Mark Lewis and Charlotte Harris, two leading solicitors representing hacking claimants.

It feels like an officially sanctioned guerrilla operation; all the Elvi need are corporate sponsor patches on the capes of their costumes.

The prime minister's spokeswoman said he had sanctioned the operation after receiving specific intelligence that UK citizens were planning terror attacks on UK soil.

In the time leading up to the trial of the two agents in custody French journalists continued to press President Mitterand for who had sanctioned the operation.

Seven months later, the same Hollande sanctioned an operation by French commandos in Somalia to try and rescue a French hostage, and started an unpredictable war in France's former colony of Mali.

Iran has argued throughout that the Britons had strayed into its territorial waters; Britain has said that the group — eight sailors and seven marines, including one woman — had been conducting a routine, United Nations-sanctioned operation in Iraqi waters.

And 25 states have expanded or considered expanding their sanctioned gambling operations.