Sentence examples for a virtual mission from inspiring English sources

Her school has an influx of students from Somalia, and as she walked through the hallways she regarded these immigrants as "a virtual mission field".

Small groups lined up to take turns watching a virtual mission that was in effect a demo — almost a Call of Duty: Drone Edition.

And these troubles render each, as one of them says, "damaged goods" — as if these troubles sufficed to spur them into a virtual suicide mission.

The Southern Civil War aristocrats orchestrated a virtual suicide mission for rebel "believers" in a way that disguised the aristocracy's selfish interests.

-- During the brutal days of the First World War, aloof French General Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) orders his deputy, General Mireau (George Macready) to have his men mount a virtual suicide mission to take a well-defended German position.

The riveting documentary The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975) trails champion Japanese skier Yuichiro Miura and his team as they ascend the world's highest peak -- an arduous, perilous undertaking in itself, ultimately hoping to descend on skis -- a virtual suicide mission.

Leap back to the 21st century at the Discovery Museum (4450 Park Avenue; 203-372-3521; www.discoverymuseum.org; $8.50, and $7 for children), where the Henry B. du Pont Planetarium simulates the night sky and (for those calling ahead) the Challenger Learning Center offers virtual missions into space.

Chase Taylor through a virtual mansion.

In his Op-Ed column "The University of Wherever," Bill Keller writes about the Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun, who is offering his "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course online and free of charge: Thrun's ultimate mission is a virtual university in which the best professors broadcast their lectures to tens of thousands of students.

Thrun's ultimate mission is a virtual university in which the best professors broadcast their lectures to tens of thousands of students.

The two visions of higher education's future I described in my column this week – Stanford Professor Sebastian Thrun's mission of a virtual university and Stanford President John Hennessy's devotion to a flesh-and-blood campus – intrigued me because of the larger context.