Sentence examples for mission aimed from inspiring English sources

The play was written while Senator McCarthy was turning anti-Communism into a search-and-destroy mission aimed at liberalism.

The fighting came as the UN prepared to disband a mission aimed at preserving a fragile cease-fire between Eritrea and Ethiopia.

However, that is the job and that is the purpose of peacekeeping operations, so at what point is a mission aimed at protecting civilians classified as a failure?

Lt. Gen. James B. Vaught, the commander of the Carter administration's disastrous April 1980 mission aimed at freeing more than 50 American hostages held in Iran, died Sept. 20 in Conway, S.C.

Early in his first term, a relief mission begun by the elder Bush in Somalia became a military mission aimed at capturing the nettlesome clan leader General Muhammad Farah Aydid.

In 597 Pope Gregory I the Great assigned Laurentius, who was then probably a Benedictine friar, to the first Anglo-Saxon mission aimed at converting England to Roman Catholicism.

The mission aims to establish whether the planet can support life, and whether any forms of life have previously existed there.

Nasa's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (Maven) mission aims to help scientists understand what happened to the water on Mars and the carbon dioxide in its atmosphere several billion years ago.

The 51-year old boss, who is paid a basic salary of £680,000 and could be eligible for a bonus of up to £1.5m, is on a cost-cutting mission, aiming to cut overheads by £400m by 2015.

Nasa's much bigger Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (Maven) mission aims to help scientists understand what happened to the water on Mars and the carbon dioxide in its atmosphere several billion years ago.

In the military, each and every mission aims to achieve a clearly defined vision of success.