Sentence examples for widespread operation from inspiring English sources

"Forces are conducting a widespread operation to locate the individuals," the military said in a statement late on Friday afternoon.

If your information apparatus is so powerful that from the early hours the radio and television in America spoke in such a way that everyone believed that it was the work of Muslims, if you are so powerful in information gathering, then why were you not able to determine this widespread operation, which has definitely taken months and, some even say, years to plan...

Although Thursday was not the deadliest day in Iraq since American forces completed their departure in late December, the attacks represented the most widespread operation yet mounted by suspected Sunni insurgents who have sought for years to topple the Shiite-led government in Baghdad.

The "large-scale and widespread" operation resulted in the arrests of eight gang members, who all entered guilty pleas to drugs offences.

Last fall, the Associated Press launched a Pulitzer Prize-winning series that detailed Intel's systemic spying on area Muslims, raising questions about the legality of such a widespread operation.

Prosecutors and jailers said it was a coincidence, but Dekraai's attorney insisted it was part of a widespread operation to elicit incriminating remarks from defendants who were represented by lawyers, a violation of their rights.

Motorola is also a big, old-line technology company with more than 20,000 employees and widespread operations and factories.

That did not change until 2008, when the Iraqi Army conducted widespread operations in volatile areas without significant American hand-holding.

The spiral of tit-for-tat violence has seen security forces carry out widespread operations in the southeast - locking down entire districts and pounding PKK outposts in residential areas, while Kurdish fighters have launched attacks against military and administrative targets.

ANTI-TERRORIST services have never before been engaged in so widespread an operation across Europe.

For instance, Bo Xilai, a senior party official who was jailed for corruption in 2013, reportedly wiretapped a call by China's president at the time, Hu Jintao, as part of a widespread surveillance operation that gathered information on party leaders and other powerful individuals, to aid in Mr. Bo's political ambitions.