Sentence examples for to operate anything from inspiring English sources

Although she was a respectable driver, she hated to operate anything mechanical more complicated than a safety pin: folding lawn chairs were a source of profound irritation to her; she had never learned to ride a bicycle or use a typewriter; she fished with a pole.

If I have to operate anything in the digital realm, it's over.

You have to first hit a disclaimer OK button before you can operate anything on the LCD panel (which says something like, "I have read these instructions and agree not to do anything stupid like look at the map instead of the road").

"We don't operate anything like a factory," he said.

One of the dirty little secrets of the new economy is that it doesn't operate anything like Adam Smith's invisible hand.

Even if users were merely earning $0.44 or $1.32 monthly from their link sharing habits, if these referral fees were automatically turned into Facebook Credits, Facebook could really jump-start this in-app currency of theirs (and if they operate anything like Apple, they'll nab 30% of all in-app money spent).

Drones can be far cheaper to operate than anything that requires an on-board pilot, and they are handy for making maps and taking pictures and videos.

Rushing to Saudi Arabia with more cold water, Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, said that it was simply "not possible" for Arab or Muslim intervention forces to operate under anything but a UN command.

During the 1932 West Indies cruise, the catapult proved to be difficult to operate in anything but a calm sea, as it was frequently awash in bad weather.

I was trying to push everybody to get her on her feet, get her back to the care home, given they weren't going to operate or anything.

Mary found that she was in a position where she had to advocate on behalf of her mother when the hospital system seemed to be a little slow in working towards encouraging the mobility of her mother following a significant fracture: I was trying to push everybody to get her on her feet, get her back to the care home, given they weren't going to operate or anything.