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carry out

verb as in complete activity

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The various members met for the first time when they traveled to Gambia at the beginning of December to carry out their plan.

Manttan is keen to carry out research on that Burmese side of the railway as his father worked on that section.

Of the ones that do survive, some will be too disillusioned to carry out an attack.

But none of them managed to be able to acquire the weapons or the bomb materials to carry out either event.

By inciting individual sympathizers to carry out attacks in Western countries, ISIS believes it can advance its cause at no cost.

To carry out this mission, the organization has asked the U.S. for more than $200 million.

In other cases, groups carry out attacks because they oppose what is being taught, or to whom.

According to a senior Paul aide, those criteria are: a direct threat to the U.S., a plan, and the ability to carry out that plan.

A Muslim Kurdish tribe from a nearby town actually helped ISIS carry out the attacks.

When residents gathered, the fighters told them to carry out the sentence: Stoning to death for the alleged adulteress.

To carry out this difficult logistical task, the Department of Defense has employed contractors since the mid-1990s.

In order to satisfy the husband of the initial victim, the village chief decided that he would carry out the retaliatory rape.

As the prime minister, I am entitled to carry out responsibilities I have toward the people.

We order troops to carry out actions not required of civilians.

It will call in lay experts and carry out surprise audits to prevent further scandals.

There are many highly qualified Americans who can carry out this critical mission.

Lunch ladies were reportedly in tears being forced carry out a directive that goes against the entire purpose of their work.

It took 12 surgeries for doctors to carry out extensive facial reconstruction.

Secondly, there should be no attempt to carry out symbolic actions.

In doing so, we would also degrade his ability to carry out more conventional attacks.

They will carry out the dictum of Carlyle that the modern university is a university of books.

The text of the amendments designed to carry out these recommendations will be submitted by the Board at an early date.

The Professor, passing benevolently on, was glad he had now enough money to carry out his projects.

A quite young child will, for example, pretend to do something, as to take an empty cup and carry out the semblance of drinking.

It is by my order that the Turks are being left a free hand to carry out this pious duty.

Your indomitable bravery will suffice to frustrate the attempt to carry out their plans.

This result comes only to those who carry out all the directions with genuine alacrity—not shirking one of them.

If you carry out your work, your doings shall be told to every human soul within a hundred miles of where you stand.

If an officer failed to grasp his meaning he would storm at him, and attempt himself to carry out the task.

Very soon after I settled in Dublin I was able to carry out a long cherished wish.

He encouraged and helped carry out the beautifying of Williamsburg, the new capital city.

She did not live to carry out her intention of returning to her own native land, Virginia, but died at Gravesend in 1617.

In truth, the Sultan of Sulu was probably quite as unable as he was unwilling to carry out its provisions.

His military renown rested largely on his ability to carry out, without hesitation and jealousy, the commands of others.

He knew well that to carry out the request made by Weirmarsh involved considerable risk.

He sat in the shabby old arm-chair and firmly refused to carry out the doctor's suggestion.

Besides, I should simply go out of my mind if I were not to carry out a resolution which I have set myself to carry out.

The humbly sympathizing friend became once more the respectful servant, and hurried away to carry out his young mistress's behest.

As he had been unable to carry out his fixed purpose, he wished his heart to be taken and borne against the foes of God.

It was not his business to see, but to carry out promptly and efficiently Scattergood's directions.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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