After a heavy operation, it might well prove counter productive.

Since the working members of the crew are using the phrase, it is more likely to refer to some heavy operation, such as raising a yard.

This very valuable property was in heavy operation in 1884.

During heavy operation the heat became unbearable to the operator.

His job is to swing a large hammer in heavy forging operations.

In practice reasonable speeds are achieved provided the key scheduling of the selected block cipher is not a too heavy operation.

"Even with very heavy get-out-the-vote operations, it would be unusual if you could get more than 50 percent of them to vote."

"Tarkington Jake said, exasperation creeping into his voice, "you got yourself smack in the middle of somebody's heavy operation.

Moulin tried to separate the different activities of the network, particularly the information and the Choc (shock, heavy military operations), following directions given to him in London.

"We reasonably expected to do a lot more heavy operations," a senior Defense Department official said.