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How to use the word operation in a Sentence?

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This is a large, voluntary trafficking operation run by a drug cartel who control the route and are the law in this part of the Colombian border near Panama, you pay to get here, you pay to overnight here, you pay to walk on.

– Paton Walsh

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1 year ago

If you have a high enough number of these kinds of asymmetrical weapon systems that survive the initial attack, you can keep most of your fighting capabilities intact and stop the enemy from conducting a landing operation.

– Admiral Lee

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1 year ago

Death and destruction are central to their criminal operation, to dominate the federal supply chain, the Chapitos kill, kidnap and torture anyone who gets in the way.

– Anne Milgram

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1 year ago

While we do not discuss the specifics of any protective operation, the president’s movements were not affected by these reports.

– Anthony Guglielmi

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1 year ago

Commanders of militias, security agencies, military forces are involved in the drug smuggling operation, the drugs cannot reach these areas without passing through dozens of barriers and checkpoints that fall under the Fourth Division, which is under the leadership of Maher al-Assad, the brother of the Syrian president.

– Salah Malkawi

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1 year ago

This level of involvement is rising, is rising gradually, we keep our eye on this process. Well, of course, it makes the whole story more complicated, but it cannot influence the final outcome of the special operation.

– Mykhailo Podolyak

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1 year ago

In reality, it’s them having come to us because we have a turnkey operation with the business plan, with all the costings, with everything ready to go.

– Craig Pollock

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1 year ago

The GBI is investigating its own tragic operation. The family calls upon the GBI to explain what steps it has taken to preserve the integrity of its investigation of its own operation.

– Enchanta Jackson

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1 year ago

In the criminal proceedings being investigated by our law enforcement officers, more than 16,000 forced deportations of Ukrainian children by the occupier have already been recorded. But the real, full number of deportees may be much higher, such a criminal operation would have been impossible without the order of the highest leader of the terrorist state.

– Volodymyr Zelensky

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1 year ago

The drone flew with its transponders off, violating the boundaries of the temporary airspace regime established for the special military operation, communicated to all users of international airspace, and published in accordance with international standards.

– The Russian Defense Ministry

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1 year ago

These particular aircraft already had the engines removed a couple of weeks ago, we then commenced the defueling operation to ensure that any hazardous fuels were removed and disposed of correctly.

– Lee Carey

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1 year ago

Kim Jong Un examined the actual war response posture of the 8th fire assault company under the unit charged with striking the enemy’s operation airport in the direction of the western front.

– Rodong Sinmun

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1 year ago

Since last summer military intelligence generals assumed a more prominent role as it dawned on Putin it was not a ‘special operation’ anymore but a conventional war, unfortunately, it means Putin’s readying the country for a long conventional war.

– Andrei Soldatov

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1 year ago

The victim was reportedly knocked unconscious from the fall and was swept into the ocean by the waves, witnesses lost sight of the victim and the rescue operation later transitioned into a likely recovery operation.

– Oregon State Police

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1 year ago

I do have an opinion about the special military operation … it remains the same to this day, i ca n’t tell you which side I support. I am for truth and justice. Let’s leave it like that.

– Anna Chernova

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1 year ago

The thing that strikes mostly are the type of collapses – what we call the pancake collapse – which is the type of collapse that we engineers don’t like to see, in such collapses, it’s difficult – as you can see – and a very tragic to save lives. It makes the operation of the search and rescue teams very difficult.

– Mustafa Erdik

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1 year ago

When you have a bow and arrow it’s more precise and less effort to use and easier to transport with you. You can take many arrows with you — not just one or two spears to hold in your hand. You can shoot many of them in a very quick operation. All this and you can be alone hunting by yourself, what is incredible to me is that they (the Neanderthals) didn’t use, they didn’t develop this type of weapon. They continued to use their traditional weapon — spears thrust or thrown by hand.

– Laure Metz

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1 year ago

Service in the zone of the special military operation – everyone understands this very well – is associated with colossal physical and psychological stress, with everyday risks to health and life, therefore, I consider it necessary to establish for the mobilized, in general for all military personnel, for all participants of the special military operation, including volunteers, regular leave lasting at least 14 days and at least once every six months, excluding travel time, so that each soldier has the opportunity to visit families, to be close to relatives and friends.

– Getty Images

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1 year ago

These communications show a close personal relationship and ‘profound’ friendship between the two men and even suggest that Staley may have been involved in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.

– Virgin Islands

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1 year ago

We’re working faster. We’re ramping up the direct housing operation, we didn’t have any issues with red tape. It was our own regulations that we needed to interpret and work with local officials to be able to place trailers.

– Keith Denning

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1 year ago

Throughout their seven-decade history, their successors have always been a mystery to us. Why would they change their mode of operation now? So if I were to bet $5, I would say she is not the successor.

– Cheong Seong-chang

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1 year ago

This is an all hands on deck operation and we won’t rest until we capture this man.

– Chief Warren Hensman

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1 year ago

In order to prepare a counteroffensive or offensive operation you need to destroy many installations, not only on the front line, but also deep behind, 100-150 kilometers behind the enemy lines, especially now, to form strong strike groupings we require tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, heavy weapons that would enable quick counteroffensive operations against the enemy.

– Vadym Skibitsky

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1 year ago

What happened on the 8th, and [Wednesday’s] operation clearly demonstrates that, was the absence of leadership, [Torres] changed the core of the leadership, travelled and left the office without command, allowing the unacceptable actions of the 8th to take place.

– Ricardo Capelli

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1 year ago

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