Sentence examples for brief mission from inspiring English sources

Thus NATO's brief mission of only 30 days seemed on track after the first week.

Mr. Wolfowitz, who was in Iraq on a brief mission to highlight what he called the positive aspects of the American-led occupation, escaped injury.

In the summer of 1939, the writer Witold Gombrowicz set sail from Poland, on the ocean liner Chrobry, on what he thought would be a brief mission as a cultural ambassador to the Polish community in Argentina.

Evangelical Christians from Asia, Europe and the United States provide encouragement and funds for this "house church" movement, and in one recent case three Taiwan-born Americans on a brief mission were detained in central China and expelled.

There is a brief mission statement embracing abstract concepts like "eternal beacons" and a slightly longer program statement with details as specific as setting aside about 2,500 square feet of space as a "final resting place for the unidentified remains".

These brief mission statements are intended to indicate the breadth of the biomedical areas of interest in which zebrafish are likely to be a useful model.

All three were Taiwan-born members of a Protestant church in California that sends members on brief missions into China to lend moral and financial support to the so-called house churches.

From all this, in the brief mission-accomplished months after Kabul and then Baghdad fell, American hubris seemed to know no bounds -- and it was this moment, not 9/11 itself, from which the true inspiration for the gargantuan "Freedom Tower" and the then-billion-dollar project for a memorial on the site of the New York attacks would materialize.

In an afternoon briefing, mission managers applauded the success of the spacewalk — one of a series of tightly choreographed activities over the next few days for this shuttle mission and the station crew afterward.

In an afternoon briefing, mission officials said that engineers had spotted three other pieces of foam that had separated from an area near the origin of the large piece; the larger of the new chunks was about seven inches by two inches.

In March 1964, when a plane carrying the troops' payroll came to the team's base in Khe Sanh, he asked the pilot to take him on a brief reconnaissance mission.