Sentence examples similar to fighting mission from inspiring English sources

"You're not going to move, attack and defend the way you have to in the war-fighting mission.

America wants to improve ties to the second-most-populous nuclear power and to get India to uphold international non-proliferation agreements, especially the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty.After the flare-up between India and Pakistan, the bridge-building visit is in danger of turning into a fire-fighting mission.

While some military experts argue that the United States should create special peacekeeping units, the military counters that all of its forces have to be prepared for the ultimate war-fighting mission, since operations like those in Kosovo, initially at least, involve the dangerous task of separating warring factions and can spiral back into all-out combat.

LONDON – Now that the German government is on the verge of palming off General Motors subsidiary Opel, it's time to focus on the next fire-fighting mission: the rescue of Arcandor.

Tensions have risen to new heights ever since Ray Kelly returned as police commissioner in 2002 and expanded the NYPD's terrorism-fighting mission.

Players can also form cooperative groups together, 'Fireteams', with up to three players, fighting through missions and strikes, all of which end in a battle with a boss.

Chaney's characters, however, don't have the luxury of being able to slip into a pair of tights and, transformed into glamorous figures with rippling muscles, embark on nocturnal crime-fighting missions.

The alliance agreed "a new strategic concept" to allow it to indulge in "expeditionary operations" – peacekeeping as well as war-fighting missions, humanitarian relief, and no doubt, time and weather permitting, motherhood and apple pie.

The National Guard and Reserves have been mobilized eight times in the last 11 years, Mr. Hall said, and the Pentagon is studying whether too many important war-fighting missions have been removed from the active-duty military and reassigned to part-time forces and whether those duties should migrate back to the full-time force.

The U.S. currently has 9,800 troops in Afghanistan, divided between a NATO-led mission to train and advise local forces and a separate counterterrorism mission fighting militant groups such as Islamic State and al Qaeda.

Burundi contributes forces to an African Union peacekeeping mission fighting al-Shabaab in Somalia.