A tax-free reorganization not complying with the merger or consolidation statutes of the states involved is difficult to fit into an `` operation of law '' mold.

* the uniform cost model, also called uniform-cost measurement ( and similar variations ), assigns a constant cost to every machine operation, regardless of the size of the numbers involved

* the logarithmic cost model, also called logarithmic-cost measurement ( and variations thereof ), assigns a cost to every machine operation proportional to the number of bits involved

In 262 BC, Rome besieged Agrigentum, an operation that involved both consular armies — a total of four Roman legions — and took several months to resolve.

However in the case of the free electron laser, atomic energy levels are not involved ; it appears that the operation of this rather exotic device can be explained without reference to quantum mechanics.

Moroccan troops were involved in Bosnia as well as in Somalia, during the operation Desert Storm.

Abu Daoud, who lived with his wife on a pension provided by the Palestinian Authority, has said that “ the Munich operation had the endorsement of Arafat ,” although Arafat was not involved in conceiving or implementing the attack.

When Bin Laden committed to the " planes operation " plot in spring 1999, Bin Laden personally selected Hazmi and Mihdhar to be involved in the plot as pilot hijackers.

* Overriding and overloading: The intentional use of the same name for multiple implementations of an object's method or operation to represent the same data in different ways, for conciseness when multiple similar operations are involved, and / or to alter the implementation of an inherited method to make it more suitable for the narrower definition of the object's data.

The UN assistance mission in Rwanda, a UN chapter 6 peace-keeping operation, involved personnel from more than a dozen countries.

Harold Giuliani had trouble holding a job and had been convicted of felony assault and robbery and served time in Sing Sing ; after his release he served as an enforcer for his brother-in-law Leo D ' Avanzo, who ran an organized crime operation involved in loan sharking and gambling at a restaurant in Brooklyn.

Along with Hillsborough County Sheriff ’ s Office, Tampa Police Department, the State Attorney ’ s Office, the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were involved in the operation.

( The training operation was designated Operation Focus Relief and involved U. S. Army Special Forces from 3rd Special Forces Group training a number of West African battalions, including Nigerian ones.

“ North had coordinated a secret contra supply operation from his office in the basement of the White House, in legal defiance of existing legislation but with the support of senior administration officials ... North had also been deeply involved in shaping contra military and political strategy and in off-the-books schemes to pay for the supply flights and the munitions they carried.

In a joint Rainbow-Spetsnaz operation, he is involved in the destruction of China's only ICBM base.

In addition to track laying ( which typically employed approximately 25 % of the labor force ), the operation also required the efforts of hundreds of tunnelers, explosive experts, bridge builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, engineers, masons, surveyors, teamsters, telegraphers, and even cooks, to name just a few of the trades involved in construction of the railroad.

It involved junior officers who had undergone three weeks prior training and who were given considerable leeway in planning and executing the operation.

If the check in operation succeeds, then the version numbers of all files involved automatically increment, and the CVS-server writes a user-supplied description line, the date and the author's name to its log files.

Orde Wingate, also involved in planning that operation, had taken such a dislike to Powell that he asked a colleague to restrain him if he was tempted to " beat his brains in ".

While preventive maintenance is generally considered to be worthwhile, there are risks such as equipment failure or human error involved when performing preventive maintenance, just as in any maintenance operation.

In the following period he was the deputy commander of Operation Danny, the largest scale operation to that point, which involved four IDF brigades.

An attack of this nature was not a breakthrough operation ; the German defensive position Flandern I lay 10, 000 – 12, 000 yards behind the front line and would not be attacked on the first day, nonetheless it was more ambitious than Plumer's earlier plan, which had involved an advance of 1, 000 – 1, 750 yards.

Geordi LaForge personally performed the delicate operation, which involved compensating for the ship's relativistic motion.

Nixon administration officials were concerned because Hunt and Liddy were also involved in another secret operation, known as the White House plumbers, which was set up to stop security ' leaks ' and to investigate other sensitive security matters.

There were five hosioi, whose responsibilities are unknown, but may have been involved in some manner with the operation of the oracle.

After obtaining a base of operation, the pilot or group of aviators would " buzz " the village dropping handbills offering airplane rides for a small fee and advertise the daring feats that would be performed.

The film Operation Crossbow began a popular myth that early guidance and stabilisation problems with the V-1 flying bomb were solved during a daring test flight by Reitsch in a V-1 modified for manned operation.

In a daring commando operation, 50 of Condé men entered the well-fortified harbour and boarded the ship, taking it without resistance.

This was a daring operation, covertly sailing galleys around Scotland, while the English fleet was expecting an attack from the other direction.

The Newport garrison came under the command of Brigadier General Sir Robert Pigot when the original commander, Brigadier General Richard Prescott, was captured in the summer of 1777 in a daring commando operation led by Continental Army Major and Warren, Rhode Island, native William Barton.

On September 17 a daring operation, Operation Market Garden, was staged to make a quick incursion into the southern Netherlands and capture bridges across the three main rivers.

Concurrently, during a military operation in World War II, following a German air raid on the Italian harbour of Bari, several hundred people were accidentally exposed to mustard gas, which had been transported there by the allied forces to prepare for possible retaliation in the event of German use of chemical warfare.

" Assigning 1, 800 troopers and a horse artillery battery to the operation, Stuart's raid reached as far north as 4 miles south of Fairfax Court House, seizing 250 prisoners, horses, mules, and supplies.

According to the Mixed Armistice Commission report, approved on the afternoon immediately following the operation, and delivered by Major General Vagn Bennike to the UN Security Council, the raid at Qibya took place on the evening of October 14, 1953 at around 9. 30 pm, and was taken by roughly half a battalion strength of soldiers from the Israeli regular army.

The boys also had a radio set in operation and this led to a raid from the DMP.

The raid was planned shortly after the hostages were initially seized and the shooting cited as a proximate cause had occurred about three hours before the operation began.

After the raid, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said that " the operation was carried out brilliantly by special forces "; he claimed he had wanted a negotiated end to the crisis, but the final attack was made necessary by the reported killing of hostages.

He was shot down while on a raid on Hamburg in an operation masterminded by Luftwaffe Colonel Biedenbender, who was promoted to general for this achievement ( though Hogan gets even by framing Biedenbender for bombing a German refinery, thereby ruining his military career in the episode " Hogan Throws a Birthday Party ").

Nowadays, in Russia " spetsnaz " have become a colloquial term gradually losing its umbrella function ; special operations became much more commonplace, be it a police raid or military operation.

The night of the raid, the men are flown to France, and practise a rhyme they have learned which details their roles in the operation.

The operation had two components--- Operation Metal -- confined to Golden Temple complex and -- Operation Shop -- to raid the countryside all over the Punjab to capture any suspects.

The raid was part of a larger operation involving Stirling's L Detachment and the SBS to penetrate behind the German lines and cause disruption in the rear areas in order to assist in the general offensive.

Due to a series of mishaps, poor fortune and the haste with which it was planned and implemented, the raid resulted in no immediate military gains for the British, although the experience gained in the mounting and conduct of the operation was to prove invaluable for the success of subsequent Commando operations.

Two days later, the British prime minister, Winston Churchill sent a memo to his chief staff officer, General Hastings Ismay, asking him to begin planning an operation for a raid on the islands as soon as possible and stating that he felt that it would be the type of operations that the newly formed Commandos would be suited for.

The Dieppe raid was a major operation planned by Vice-Admiral Lord Mountbatten of Combined Operations Headquarters.

The unit's first operation was the successful raid on the Lofoten Islands in March 1941.

In the event Leigh-Mallory completely mismanaged the operation, permitting the raid to progress unhindered and resulting in Kenley and Biggin Hill airbases being ' bombed ' while their aircraft were still on the ground.

Cage arranges an operation with the Czech special forces to raid the remote castle Anarchy 99 uses as a base.

Rainbow launches a final raid on Gospic's operation, foiling Gospic's plan to attack the parade, and killing Gospic himself.

The first military operation involving Flight Engineers was in February 1941 on a Short Stirling, and was the first four-engined bomber raid of the war by the RAF.

Experience of the operation contributed towards Operation Jubilee, the major Combined Operations raid on Dieppe, France, the following August.

On 8 January 1942, he therefore contacted the headquarters of 1st Airborne Division and 38 Wing RAF, asking if they were able to conduct the raid ; Browning was particularly enthusiastic, as a successful operation would be an excellent morale boost to the airborne troops under his command, as well as a good demonstration of their value.

38 Wing was a new formation and was unable to provide any aircraft or trained aircrews for the raid, meaning that No. 51 Squadron RAF under Wing Commander Percy Charles Pickard was selected to provide the aircraft and aircrew needed for the operation, although Group Captain Nigel Norman would remain in overall command.

The last Claret operation was in July 1966 as a riposte to the raid towards Brunei by Lt Sumbi of 600 Raider Company and ' volunteers ' in May.

The reasons for mounting an operation with such meagre resources were two – fold ; firstly a successful raid would demonstrate to the rest of the world that Britain was still a force to be reckoned with and had not been defeated, and secondly a raid would test the fighting ability of the battalion and its equipment, as well as the RAF's ability to deliver paratroopers at a predetermined location at a required time.