They didn't go to a back street clinic with no license to operate.

Last week the paper did - and it was promptly denied a license to operate.

More to the point, who ever even suggested that a newspaper needed a license to operate?

He had a valid license to operate the plane, the official said.

It was granted a license to operate at night during the 1980s.

However, a license to operate the power plant was not awarded until 14 November 2007.

I have a license to operate as a private detective.

He said the group had assumed that it would not need a license to operate in international waters.

Ten years later, he obtained a license to open and operate a public inn.

The state, however, has the authority to close schools, by removing what is essentially their license to operate.