NOUN | a police operation | police operations | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- The term "sting" was popularized by the 1973 Robert Redford and Paul Newman movie "The Sting", though the film is not about a police operation: it features two grifters and their attempts to con a mob boss out of a large sum of money.
- In the first two days of its police operation, Syrian troops shot some fifteen Lebanese of various militias.
- If so there may have been a serious error regarding his "police work" in that case, as it was a military investigation and not a civil style police operation.
- In 2005, officers of the CNC were part of the police operation involving nearly all police forces of the United Kingdom in connection with the G8 conference near Gleneagles, Scotland.
- The police operation led to the arrest and conviction of three foreign agents and the brothel's owner-operator, Gustave Beekman, though promised leniency for cooperating with the police, received the maximum sentence of 20 years for sodomy and was not released from prison until 1963.
- In May 2006 a police operation showed that class A drugs were being used and dealt there, and it closed as a result.
- The inner circle of the Latin Kings in Madrid was dismantled when fifty-four members were arrested during a police operation carried out in February 2010.
- Theodore White would write "to put Egil Krogh in charge of a secret police operation was equivalent to making Frank Merriwell chief executive of a KGB squad."
- Project Thread was a police operation in 2003 that resulted in the arrest of 24 immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area amidst allegations that they formed a threat to national security, and maintained "suspected ties to al-Qaeda."
- The police operation took place several days before the 10th anniversary of the 1998 Embassy bombings.
- The pair were caught in a large police operation in May, and Chaplin's coffin was found buried in a field in Noville.
- The law and order situation in the country worsen, especially in Karachi where the police operation resulted in various and unaccountable deaths.
- It was the biggest police operation in the area since the Miners strikes in the early 1980s.
- The police operation ended with the deaths of 7 inmates and at least 17 injuries.
- While it should have been the effective nerve centre of the whole police operation, the backlog of unprocessed information resulted in the failure to connect vital pieces of related information.
- In 2015, President Aquino was accused of evading responsibility for the Mamasapano clash, a botched police operation, which resulted to the death of 44 Special Action Force officers.
- On 18 August 1941, in a brutal police operation, over 300 " [...] " were arrested.
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