Sentence examples similar to the operation is in progress from inspiring English sources

He said other arrests related to the operation were "in progress".

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel called Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on Thursday either while the operation was in progress or shortly after it was completed.

"While this operation was in progress, gunmen opened up from rubble at the base of the Rossville Flats and soldiers returned the fire.

Updated at 2.53pm GMT 2.19pm GMT Algeria has told Britain that an operation is in progress at the gas plant, a spokesman for the British Foreign Office said in London.

(c) If the Emergency Alert System (EAS) is activated for a national emergency while a Local Area or State emergency operation is in progress, the national level EAS operation must take precedence.

A rescue operation is in progress after six sheep got stuck down the side of a cliff in Ilfracombe.

The operation is in retreat.

At the time of the raid, there were sufficient grounds to justify the police in suspecting that the unlawful lottery, which later proved to be in operation, was in progress within the building which had been under surveillance.

Jamaat officials said two of the suspects had visited their mosque, but they dismissed the notion that a real terrorist operation was in progress and that their group was part of it.

The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, confirmed that an "operation" was in progress at Dammartin-en-Goële, a commuter village on the edge of the Paris conurbation.

An operation was in progress.