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installation from which a military force initiates operations
the attack wiped out our forward bases
How To Use base of operations In A Sentence
- Removing two other birds - an olivaceous warbler and a yellow-vented bulbul - from the 30-foot-long net, he heads for his base of operations: a folding card table in the middle of a weedy lot.
- They cite the killing and capturing of hundreds of al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan and the elimination of the country as a base of operations for attacks against the West.
- Logistic considerations make the Moon a very attractive base of operations if ice is abundant in the lunar polar regions.
- Mirm will serve as a single base of operations for the university's leading scientists and clinical faculty working to develop tissue engineering, cellular therapies, biosurgery, and artificial and biohybrid organ devices.
- In turn, Kandahar Airfield, the base of operations for southern Afghanistan, is likely to continue transforming from an expeditionary bulwark to a steady-state installation.
- Your base of operations, so to speak, has been abstracted from the underlying computer.
- North Waziristan, the most lawless of the tribal areas, is a hub of Al Qaeda and other foreign fighters, and the base of operations for the Haqqani network.
- Logistic considerations make the Moon a very attractive base of operations if ice is abundant in the lunar polar regions.
- There is no sense of a tangible organization that you can point to, says Rich Killion, an uncommitted GOP strategist in New Hampshire, who's unsure of the location of Cain's Granite State base of operations, or even if there is one. US politics live blog: Obama's new housing plan, Republican presidential candidates in a tangle
- Your base of operations, so to speak, has been abstracted from the underlying computer.