Sentence examples similar to a diminished mission from inspiring English sources

Smith, as a young diplomatic officer posted to Havana, helped shut down the embassy in 1961, then was one of the first to return as chief of the diminished mission.

Because a diminished BBC would diminish Britain.

He's staying at a diminished mountain resort in the Alps, on a reluctant mission to reclaim a villa — his late wife's inheritance — that was appropriated in turn by a series of twentieth-century European regimes.

In the third-season première, which aired April 24th, Richard has been thinking of leaving his company rather than accepting a diminished role, but he agrees to visit Jack at his Mission-style mansion.

The eight- or nine-hour missions were grueling tests of endurance for pilots and crew, and while German fighter aircraft were a diminished threat by this time as compared to earlier in the war, his missions often faced heavy anti-aircraft artillery fire that filled the sky with flak bursts.

The key goal now will be a diminished one — counterterrorism work to finish off Al Qaeda — that is far closer to the mission that Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and some political aides at the White House argued for 18 months ago.

The United Nations has had a diminished presence in Baghdad since the August 2003 bombing of its headquarters there that killed 22 people, including the mission chief, Sergio Vieira de Mello.

What defines a diminished person?

But Mr Zhou seems a diminished figure.

A diminished JA-Zenchu would help.

Complicating matters is a diminished fan base.