The withdrawal of Unprofor would itself be a painful, bloody operation.

On the morning of May 17, 1909, the same day his mother suffered a severe stroke, he underwent a "bloody adenoid operation."

The bloodiest operation was launched on 10 December 1970, a five-year long campaign that claimed over 1,000 lives, many from landmines.

To ease their conscience, the invaders predicted a swift, less bloody operation.

What I was about to do was a bloody, difficult, and ugly operation.

It's going to be a bigger and bloodier operation than the last one, which was a rout.

But it had been a bloody operation.

The rebels swept through this village in a bloody operation to settle scores with unarmed villagers.

He had the cruel hard bloody operation yesterday, and is quite destroyed.

It was all too often desk-bound men who planned the bloodiest operations.