Sentence examples for expanded missions from inspiring English sources

These are expanded missions that demonstrate how Moas has developed from a family-funded operation, to one increasingly reliant on the generosity of ordinary donors.

In the past year, the UN and the African Union have agreed to deploy 53,000 soldiers in six new or expanded missions in central, west and east Africa (see chart).

"This agency has been asked to take on a very expanded mission," he said.

This week, United Nations officials said that unless the Sudanese government started cooperating, the expanded mission might not be possible.

Several months later, defense officials created the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, whose expanded mission is to provide "force protection against a full spectrum of potential threats".

Right now the odds don't look great, but things may change for the better as the curators become accustomed to their expanded mission.

In recent years, critics have denounced its expanded mission and pan-Latin efforts as an erosion of the museum's Puerto Rican core.

The agency is taking on the expanded mission at a time when Washington budget-slashing means that regulators have little hope of getting additional money and may instead have their budgets cut by Congress.

The Americans are concerned that an expanded mission, even if it involved only a small number of G.I.'s, would embroil them in a wider Balkans conflict -- a situation that President Bush argued against forcefully in his election campaign.

The special representative, Staffan de Mistura, a longtime United Nations diplomat of Italian and Swedish parentage, said in an interview last week that the United Nations was prepared to carry out the expanded mission mandated by a Security Council resolution approved in August.

Beyond making the world more open and connected, Facebook's recently expanded mission statement now includes "to give people the power to share".