Use operations in a sentence
Sentences starting with operations
- Operations were at a standstill, and the sinews of war relaxed. [9]
Sentences ending with operations
- Mr. Dana understands you as believing that the Emancipation Proclamation has helped some in your military operations. [7]
- There are operations which no surgeon should be willing to undertake unless he has paid a particular, if not an exclusive, attention to the cases demanding such operations. [6]
- Philip as a trusted clerk, without being admitted into interior secrets, came to know a good deal about Mavick's affairs, and to be more than ever impressed with his enormous wealth and the magnitude of his operations. [4]
- Schaick is going to let me have ten thousand just for a flyer in such operations. [5]
- I never meant to imply that the witches made no excursions beyond the district which was more especially their seat of operations. [6]
- This sort of thing wants an old, quiet, steady hand--wants an old cool head, you know, that knows men, through and through, and is used to large operations. [5]
- It has doubled the prices of the products of their farms, and filled their pockets with a sound circulating medium, and they are all well pleased with its operations. [7]
- It is true, the great proclamation, which stamped the war as one for "union and freedom," did not at once mark the turning of the tide on the field of military operations. [7]
- They cannot compel the Bank to cease operations, or to change the course of its operations. [7]
- There were rumours that the banker had left the church until the recalcitrant rector should be driven out of it; the usual long list of Mr. Parr's benefactions was included, and certain veiled paragraphs concerning his financial operations. [9]
Short sentences using operations
- Financial operations are perpetual war. [4]
More example sentences with the word operations in them
- He mentioned my young friend and said he was very anxious to have the $7000 now to begin his banking operations with, and could wait a while for the rest. [5]
- I also authorize you, by an order, or in what form you choose, to suspend all operations on the Treasury trade permits, in all places southeastward of the Alleghenies. [7]
- For a dozen years, by operations, various, secret, untiring, he had been laying the foundations for his success, and in the maturing of his schemes it became apparent how vast his transactions had been. [4]
- During the earliest years of the new century the political atmosphere had changed, the public had shown a tendency to grow restless; and everybody knows how important it is for financial operations, for prosperity, that the people should mind their own business. [9]
- They keep the world active, and I owe a great many of my best operations to such men. [5]
- About his operations with Henderson he had never told Edith, and he did not tell her now. [4]
- Only a man who has experienced it--that is, has passed some months continuously in an atmosphere of campaigning and war--can understand the delight Nicholas felt when he escaped from the region covered by the army's foraging operations, provision trains, and hospitals. [2]
- This same condition was equally favorable for the operations of any professional experimenter who would use the flame of religious excitement to light the torch of an earthly passion. [6]
- Acting with his usual promptness, Philip, with the consent of Mr. Bolton, broke ground there at once, and, before snow came, had some rude buildings up, and was ready for active operations in the spring. [5]
- It was evident to the most casual acquaintance that he was a man of affairs, and that his time was engrossed in the largest sort of operations, about which there was a mysterious air. [5]
- We're always going to run down and see them, but I'm into so many operations, and they're not things a man feels like trusting to other people, and so somehow we keep putting it off. [5]
- They'll have orders to land on the coast, to join the Irish patriots, to take control of the operations, and then to march on--" He was going to say "march on Dublin," but he stopped. [11]
- If Germany continues to destroy shipping on the seas, if we are not able to supply our new armies and the Allied nations with food and other things, the increasing social ferment will paralyze the military operations of the Entente. [9]
- It was some time before Joe had recovered sufficiently to arise and repair to the scene of operations on the road. [9]
- Not far from this vast Chamber, where great financial operations are conducted on the highest principles of honor, and with the strictest regard to the Marquis of Dusenbury's rules, there is another less pretentious Chamber, known as "open," a sort of overflow meeting. [4]
- Nor do I think it proper now to suspend military operations to try any experiment of negotiation. [7]
- For all of these operations a corps of counsel had been employed, including the firm of Harrington and Bowes next to Theodore Watling, Joel Harrington was deemed the ablest lawyer in the city. [9]
- It is not, then, in anything exceptional that we are interested in the operations of Murad Ault, but simply on account of his fortuitous connection with a great fortune which had its origin in very much the same cyclonic conditions that Mr. Ault reveled in. [4]
- For all that, their operations may be as essential as the other, in which the will-power sometimes gets into a deadlock, and sometimes telegraphs the most eccentric and incomprehensible orders. [4]
- So what was the use of performing various operations on the French who were running away as fast as they possibly could? [2]
- The operations of the treasury during the period which has elapsed since your adjournment have been conducted with signal success. [7]
- The operations of the Treasury during the last year have been successfully conducted. [7]
- Scientists say that the human system has two nerve-centres--one in the brain, to which and from which are telegraphed all movements depending upon the will, and another in the small of the back, the centre of the involuntary operations of respiration, digestion, and so on. [4]
- The operations under the act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, detailed in the report of the Provost Marshal General. [7]
- I may add that, while I do not perceive how such committal could facilitate our military operations in Louisiana, I really apprehend it might be so used as to embarrass them. [7]
- It is necessary that the plan of your operations be positively determined on, before orders are given for building bridges and repairing railroads. [7]
- We may argue that such a man is a disturber of trade, of legitimate operations, of the fairest speculations, but when we see how uniform he is as a phenomenon, we begin to be convinced that he is somehow indispensable to the system itself. [4]
- It was true that he never seemed to have ready money, but he was engaged in very large operations. [5]
- Neither are the States especially interested competent to combine among themselves for the necessary operations. [5]
- There must be something wrong in these schemes, these great operations that made so many confiding people suffer. [4]
- Philip, who had so long known Harry, never could make up his mind that Harry did not himself believe that he was a chief actor in all these large operations of which he talked so much. [5]
- I have forborne, so far, for fear of interfering with and embarrassing your operations. [7]
- The marches, battles, sieges, and other military operations that have signalized this campaign must render it famous in the annals of war, and have entitled those who have participated therein to the applause and thanks of the nation. [7]
- For the solid sciences I had no particular fancy, but with mental modes and habits, and especially with the eccentric and fantastic in the intellectual and spiritual operations, I was tolerably familiar. [4]
- Well, what does Sandy Hook say about operations of enemy and of Sigel during to-day? [7]
- Besides, I can put this money into operations here that will increase it a hundred fold, yes, a thousand fold, in a few months. [5]
- I've got some prodigious operations on foot; but I'm keeping quiet; mum's the word; your old hand don't go around pow-wowing and letting everybody see his k'yards and find out his little game. [5]
- Many of these prints, and a rare and authentic map of Wolfe's operations against Quebec are now reproduced in this novel, and may be considered accurate illustrations of places, people, and events. [11]
- Party operations at present only favor or retard colonization incidentally. [7]
- He is not pleased with the tardiness of the movement toward Chattanooga, and directs that no force be sent here if you cannot do it without breaking up the operations against that point and East Tennessee. [7]
- The plan of operations was very simple. [5]
- Then too the operations progressed slowly because that day at noon his finger had been badly cut by the bursting of a glass retort. [10]
- To watch the operations of the big fire gives him constant pleasure. [4]
- Some of our operations had all the excitement of war. [9]
- A similar attempt on the part of the Pennsylvania Quakers merely disturbed the operations of nature, but did not save the drab bonnets from the annual wetting. [4]
- This stronghold, situated on the northeast of the Platen Sea, was, like Caniza and Oberlympack, one of the Turkish advanced posts, by means of which they pushed forward their operations from Buda on the Danube. [4]
- For its bearing on our finances, I would be glad for this to be done, if it can be, without injuriously disturbing your military operations, or supplying the enemy. [7]
- The military operations of the year, detailed in the report of the General in Chief. [7]
- At the end of the week the prince reappeared and resumed his former way of life, devoting himself with special activity to building operations and the arrangement of the gardens and completely breaking off his relations with Mademoiselle Bourienne. [2]
- The depressing influences of the insurrection have been specially felt in the operations of the Patent and General Land Offices. [7]
- I know nothing of General Buell's intended operations, never having received any information in regard to the general plan of campaign. [7]
- When darkness would obscure his mind, and a thick cloud of gloom would bewilder its operations, her intelligent eye darts a ray of streaming light into his heart. [5]
- The Natchez Cotton Mills Company began operations four years ago in a two-story building of 50 x 190 feet, with 4,000 spindles and 128 looms; capital $105,000, all subscribed in the town. [5]
- Now, a white man can conceive great operations, and carry them out; a niggro can't. [5]
- As to the major-generalships in the regular army, I think I shall not dispose of another, at least until the combined operations now in progress, under direction of General Grant, and within which yourself and command are included, shall be terminated. [7]
- I had Boyd Madras taken to an empty cabin next to mine, which I used for operations, and there Hungerford and myself worked to resuscitate him. [11]
- But he had lost something of the coolness with which he had begun his system of operations. [6]
- He experienced a little relief when she did not bother him about his business nor inquire into his operations with Hollowell, and he fancied that she was getting to accept the world as Carmen accepted it. [4]
- Such vast operations lent him the importance of a public man. [4]
- These reports, though lengthy, are scarcely more than brief abstracts of the very numerous and extensive transactions and operations conducted through those departments. [7]
- The operations of Lane, Jennison, and others have so enraged the people of Missouri that it is estimated that there is a majority of 80,000 against the government. [7]
- You ought to know that if I throw my time and abilities into a patent medicine, it's a patent medicine whose field of operations is the solid earth! [5]
- And the same is true in all joint operations wherein those engaged can have none but a common end in view and can differ only as to the choice of means. [7]
- Your attention is invited to the report of the Postmaster-General for a detailed account of the operations and financial condition of the Post-Office Department. [7]
- The vast expenditures incident to the military and naval operations required for the suppression of the rebellion have hitherto been met with a promptitude and certainty unusual in similar circumstances, and the public credit has been fully maintained. [7]
- Philip, to keep him from some new foolishness, persuaded him to go with him to Philadelphia; and, give his valuable services in the mining operations at Ilium. [5]
- During this time he performed two operations which the surgeons who had been sent out by the Railway Directors at Montreal declared were masterpieces. [11]
- Head and heart have nothing to do with his wordy operations, and they go on like an ox treading out corn. [10]
- Mr. Lawson Tait has had, so far as I have been able to learn, the most wonderful series of successful cases on record: namely, one hundred and thirty-nine consecutive operations without a single death. [6]
- Any one who has been on the Rhine will have observed operations not unlike those to which we have just referred; and, indeed, most of the rivers of Europe flowing among their own alluvia have required similar treatment in the interest of navigation and agriculture. [5]
- And now December had come and Congress was in session; in the very first days an investigation had been ordered into the land grants involved in the Southwestern operations. [4]
- Having ever regarded government as their deadliest bane, they make a jubilee of the suspension of its operations, and pray for nothing so much as its total annihilation. [7]
- And besides I got involved in some operations that I had to see through. [5]
- It was their good fortune to render efficient service in the brilliant operations in the Southwest and to contribute to the victories of the national arms over the rebel forces in Georgia under command of Johnston and Hood. [7]
- He found it full, but seated in the red-plush chair, tipped back at a convenient angle, was Mazarine undergoing the triple operations of shaving his upper lip, beard-trimming and haircutting. [11]
- Fetlock reasoned that Flint's mining operations had outgrown the pick, and that blasting was about to begin now. [5]
- His speculation hung fire in a most tantalizing way; more than that, it had absorbed nearly all the "income not earned by toil," which was at the hazard of operations he could neither control nor comprehend. [4]
- He put a field-glass to his eyes, and scanned the field of operations closely once more. [11]
- This last-named gentleman felt just then a strong impulse to observe the operations of Murray Bradshaw. [6]
- The most remarkable feature in the military operations of the year is General Sherman's attempted march of three hundred miles directly through the insurgent region. [7]
- Women, who are exceedingly subtle in all their operations, feel that it is otherwise. [4]
- In your operations down the Mississippi you must not rely too confidently upon any direct co-operation of General Banks and the lower flotilla, as it is possible that they may not be able to pass or reduce Port Hudson. [7]
- When he was down at Ilium he called himself the engineer of the works, and he used to spend hours smoking his pipe with the Dutch landlord on the hotel porch, and astonishing the idlers there with the stories of his railroad operations in Missouri. [5]
- There was nothing discouraging in this, and they both resumed operations with cheerfulness and enthusiasm. [4]
- In the early days of their association Jim had left his post and taken to drink at critical moments in their operations. [11]
- Captain Charles Henry Davis, for distinguished services in conflict with the enemy at Fort Pillow, at Memphis, and for successful operations at other points in the waters of the Mississippi River. [7]
- I believe it could be shown that the government here has deliberately armed more than ten times as many captured at Gettysburg, to say nothing of similar operations in East Tennessee. [7]
- These two great commanders did not condescend to fight in person--that being better suited to the still smaller fry--but sat together on an eminence and conducted the field operations by orders delivered through aides-de-camp. [5]
- For some time before this autumn, his daughters had been collecting all the information they could respecting the probable success of operations for cataract performed on a person of their father's age. [14]
- He has not been tried because, in the state of military operations at the time of his arrest and since, the officers to constitute a court martial and for witnesses could not be withdrawn from duty without serious injury to the service. [7]
- His inquiries had been bent towards so disposing the financial operations, so bulwarking the mining industry by sagacious designs, that, when the worst came, they all would be able to weather the storm. [11]
- I shall also be glad to have your impression as to the effect the late operations about Murfreesborough will have on the prospects of Tennessee. [7]
- That this order be executed with such promptness and dispatch as not to delay the commencement of the operations already directed to be underwritten by the Army of the Potomac. [7]
- It appears to be a line of defence for musketry, such as our armies used to throw up: whether the French, who conducted siege operations from this promontory on Capri, under Murat, had anything to do with it, does not appear. [4]
- The national thanks are tendered by the President to Admiral Farragut and Major-General Canby, for the skill and harmony with which the recent operations in Mobile Harbor and against Fort Powell, Fort Gaines, and Fort Morgan were planned and carried into execution. [7]
- The Yankees who are opposed to it may be most flumerous; but, in military phrase, the battlefield is too far from their base of operations. [7]
- There's $200,000 coming, and that will set things booming again: Harry seems to be having some difficulty, but that's to be expected--you can't move these big operations to the tune of Fisher's Hornpipe, you know. [5]
- Wallstein knew little and cared less about politics; yet he saw the use of politics in finance, and he did not stick his head into the sand as some of his colleagues did when political activities hampered their operations. [11]
- The chances of an extended line of operations are now, on account of the advanced season, much less than then. [7]
- Deduct from these amounts the amount of the principal of the public debt redeemed and the amount of issues in substitution therefor, and the actual cash operations of the Treasury were: receipts, $884,076,646.57; disbursements, $865,234,087.86; which leaves a cash balance in the Treasury of $18,842,558.71. [7]
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