Sentence examples for the only operational from inspiring English sources
It is the only operational U.A.V. -- unmanned aerial vehicle -- unit in the Army.
In Soviet hands it was the Varyag (a sister ship is the only operational carrier in Russia's navy).
His mine, the Old Wasp, is the only operational gold mine left in Goldfield, Arizona, a pretty tourist town an hour's drive from Phoenix.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 1941), Halsey's task force was virtually the only operational battle group left in the Pacific.
Harry Ramsbottom's is the only operational business in an all-but-abandoned shopping centre – the rest of the strip mall, along a main highway west of Orlando, has been repossessed by the banks.
However, because it was a civilian building producing food – the only operational mill in Gaza – the incident received particular criticism from Goldstone, who concluded that the building was hit by an air strike, the attacks were "intentional and precise", and they were "carried out for the purpose of denying sustenance to the civilian population".
To discard this possibility, we obtained two subsets of our data set, one containing only informational genes (n = 610) and the other only operational ones (n = 14,902) and evaluated the differences between archaebacterial and eubacterial genes within each subset separately (supplementary table S6, Supplementary Material online).
The US has the world's only operational stealth fighter, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
The US has the world's only operational stealth fighter, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, and has been playing down the images that appear to show a working prototype.
29 Although the rural Indian data included in this study were collected between 2005 and 2008, the JSY was only operational in the study areas from 2008 onwards and its impact is unlikely to be reflected here.
According to The Post and Courier, the Charleston newspaper that first reported the incident, emergency crews discovered debris on the approach to the airport's only operational runway and ordered it shut down.
