Sentence examples for would operatives from inspiring English sources
Secrecy is a commodity that spies and agents have claimed not simply as an untrammeled right but as the core of their tradecraft: How else would operatives perform their missions if their plans were publicly known?
The program would recruit operatives and acquire the necessary equipment, including aircraft, and would keep its activities under wraps.
A finding would give operatives some legal protection for questionable actions, but the White House was reluctant to put what it wanted in writing.
Occasionally, the C.I.A. or senior military intelligence officers would send operatives to the arsenal to be given LSD and then questioned.
When the groups needed to replenish their ranks, it would be operatives from the S Wing who often slipped into radical madrasas across Pakistan to drum up recruits, the officials said.
Moreover, he was apparently meant to outsource the operation to a Mexican drug cartel — known to be infiltrated by American law enforcement — which would dispatch operatives the Iranians had never met or even seen, let alone vetted.
Mr Cameron told MPs that to ignore the claims would risk operatives' reputation "being tarnished".
Reagan proposed to change "the course of human history" by shielding the nation from nuclear attack with a system of defense that would become operative in the twent-first century, a host of objectionsNmost of them convincing, we thoughtNwere raised.
We hypothesized that resident participation would prolong operative times and potentially adversely affect postoperative outcomes.
James's argument would, if operative, thwart our intellectual goal by permitting us to violate Clifford's Rule.
A comparison with other advanced generation technologies expected to be in use around 2050, when the first fusion power plant would be operative, has also been performed.
