"It was a military-style operation," he said.

The solution to how to neutralize Pruitt came not from a game plan of X's and O's but from military-style psychological operations.

Urbina's family refused to pay the ransom and an anti-kidnapping unit rescued her in a military-style operation on February 18, 2005.

Medical aid for the Haiti earthquake became a military-style operation.

Mr. Ramaphosa also accused the Pretoria Government of siding with employers to crush the strike in a military-style operation.

Bout was spirited out of Thailand in November 2010 in a cloak-and-dagger military-style operation that Moscow called illegal.

When a landowner requests protection from the organization, Ranch Rescue operatives set up a military-style operation on the property and terms it as such.

A military-style operation combining the latest technology with old-style ruthlessness, the Zakharov Organization benefits from access to high-tech weaponry.

As Hurricane Floyd roared up the Atlantic seaboard this week, America's biggest insurers mounted military-style operations to cope with the expected wreckage.

"It's like a military-style operation on a daily basis," said Deputy Mayor Joseph J. Lhota, who supervised the landfill shutdown.