Sentence examples for scope of the operations from inspiring English sources

More details about the scope of the operations were included in the classified section of the report, administration officials said.

But the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran, which involve the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), have now been significantly expanded, according to the current and former officials.

Top administration officials, including Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, are scheduled to answer lawmakers' questions about the cost and scope of the operations in a closed session on Wednesday.

What has changed is the size and scope of the operation.

Detectives were checking the files of 13 seized computers to determine the exact scope of the operation, Mr. Hynes said.

"There could be thousands of victims who have not been identified," Mr. Spitzer said, adding, "Unfortunately, we don't know the scope of the operation".

Richard L. Feigen, another prominent dealer, said he was "flabbergasted by the size of the space" and the scope of the operation Mr. Salander was trying to run.

The Homeland Security Department announced several hundred arrests at the time, mostly of visitors whose visas had expired, but the records obtained in the lawsuit show that the scope of the operation reached much further.

"That's not what they are doing," the official said, "and so far they seem to be satisfied with the pace of the operation, and we're satisfied with the pace and the scope of the operation".

The international scope of the operation against Bout, 41, who is based in Moscow, has also emerged when it became clear that his arrests resulted from cooperation between the Thai, Netherlands Antilles, Romanian, Danish and US police forces.

The sheer scope of the operation -- a pilotless drone, F-15 fighters and AC-130 gunships circled overhead as dozens of armored vehicles and patrol boats cut off escape routes -- suggested the seriousness of a new American effort to quell nascent armed resistance in areas north and west of Baghdad dominated by Sunni Muslims.