Sentence examples for grim mission from inspiring English sources

It was a grim mission — and luckily, his son survived — but the land made a strong impression.

It tells the story of an Italian general on a grim mission to find and return to Italy the remains of his country's soldiers who died in Albania during World War II.

But as a hopeful rescue effort gave way to a grim mission to recover the bodies of the four boys, police officials said that the call was most likely not handled properly.

His cowboy protagonists, Ross Bodine (a grizzled William Holden), a fiftyish journeyman with bleak prospects, and the young Frank Post Ryan O'Neall), an impulsive, dandyish dreamer with big ideas, meet while working at the Montana ranch of Walt Buckman Karl Maldenn) and bond on a grim mission.

As we hunted through the woods we skirted several other trenches, dug by men on a much grimmer mission than our own.

At the European Space Operations Centre ESOCC) in Darmstadt, grim-faced mission controllers peered at their monitors as the moment they expected the probe to call home came and went in silence.

When I turned on the local news, however, there was a grim reminder of the mission at hand: police officers in the neighboring town of Belmar had stopped Michael Sorrentino, a k a the Situation, for traffic violations.

Brahimi, the veteran Algerian diplomat who succeeded Kofi Annan as the international Syria envoy in September, said he was continuing his mission despite the grim situation.

In another sobering reminder of the grim security situation, a United Nations Security Council mission returned from Afghanistan last week and said the attacks were jeopardizing the entire process of installing a democratic government in Kabul, leading to elections next year.

Dec. 4th: The Street Symphony, an organization led by the L.A. Philharmonic violinist Vijay Gupta, presented excerpts from Handel's "Messiah" at the Midnight Mission, in the grim heart of L.A.'s Skid Row.

Artillery exploded in the adjacent hills as Oxana climbed onto a truck full of grim soldiers outfitted for a mission.