Sentence examples for formal mission from inspiring English sources

That's its mission (if not its formal mission statement): to sell more stuff to more people.

John Lewis's constitution also lists a formal mission to maximise the "happiness" of its staff.

The formal mission of America's land-grant colleges, for instance, was to improve the performance of agriculture and the mechanical arts.

He chaired the foreign law committee for the New York Bar Association and led the ABA's first formal mission to China.

The MoD's formal mission statement describes Bill Jeffrey, the unimpressive permanent secretary, as "not only leading the workstream process, but driving it".

C. 1180 Pian del Carpine?, Italy August 1, 1252 Bar, Montenegro Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpini, English John Of Plano Carpini (born c. 1180, Pian del Carpine?, near Perugia, Umbria died Aug. 1, 1252, Antivari [Bar], Dalmatia?) Franciscan friar, first noteworthy European traveller in the Mongol Empire, to which he was sent on a formal mission by Pope Innocent IV.

Formal missions are chosen from a selection of non-linear options from your helicopter command centre, which then drops you off at a location you specify.

The Fed also has two formal missions that are codified in law: to promote "maximum employment" (thus its duty to head off recessions) and, of course, to maintain a stable purchasing power, which is generally interpreted as keeping the inflation rate at a tolerable level.

The United States ended its formal combat mission over the summer, and plans to continue to withdraw troops over the next year.

What is really at stake in these meetings is the number of troops – and the corresponding political investment that the US will have in Afghanistan's stability – after the end of the formal combat mission.

Fear of the Mongols had not abated when four years later Pope Innocent IV dispatched the first formal Catholic mission to them, partly to protest against their invasion of Christian territory and partly to gain reliable information about their numbers and their plans; there may also have been the hope of alliance with a power that might be invaluable against Islām.