The doctors operated amid the dust and flies, sleeves rolled to the elbow, blood clotting swiftly in the heat.

Significantly, Blum, a Jew, operated amid anti-Semitism whose corrosiveness and intensity is difficult to understand in our far more polite times.

It is not at all apparent how the police intelligence unit will operate amid fears of terrorism in a postwar climate.

This system operates amid an intense price war in which Vodafone has consistently beaten Cellnet, the No. 2 mobile phone operator.

A 700-foot-high wooden trestle build, the ski jump operated for a single winter season amid the hardships of Great Depression-era Ayer.

But some manufacturers still operate amid the showrooms and wholesalers.

Nevertheless there were no humans operating on the surface of Mercury, nobody amid the blindly toiling robots, diggers, and scrapers.

But executives said that that the investment bank was still operating profitably amid some of the most turbulent market conditions in a decade.

Despite Russia's vast commercial potential, the thought of operating amid continuing crisis has kept all but the hardiest from venturing in.

The board - made up of the Mayor, Council President, Comptroller and borough presidents - has been operating amid uncertainty since December 1986.