The United Nations peacekeeping chief in New York called for reinforcements to bolster the embattled mission of close to 10,000 here, which Mr. Gbagbo is seeking to expel.
The mission was to start the process of closing down the reactor under the terms agreed to between North Korea and the United States in 1994.
As part of its ongoing mission to close the barn doors after the cows have got out, Facebook has suspended the accounts of British data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon over concerns that it may be improperly handling user data.
In February 1918, the call went out for volunteers to participate in a special mission to close the port of Zeebrugge using blockships.
Days and weeks passed, and despite the overwhelming disease burden, the mission neared completion and task force staff shifted efforts to the planning and execution of closing ceremonies.
The year began as the last two years had ended, with summit after summit to address the euro crisis as fears grew that indebted countries would be forced out of the euro zone a move that would undermine the EU's defining mission of "ever closer union".
The EU is now confronted with one of the gravest challenges to its mission of "ever closer union" between member states.
The biennial Adelaide Festival was founded 40 years ago with the mission of bringing London closer to Adelaide, as an enlightened, generous civic gesture and also so that certain culture mavens could demonstrate their connoisseurship and impress their friends.
The central mission of the R.T.C., which closed its doors in 1995, was to sell office buildings, homes, loans and other assets held by failed savings-and-loan institutions.
What a world might be like in which we began not just to withdraw our troops from one war to fight another, but to seriously scale down the American global mission, close those hundreds of bases -- recently, there were almost 300 of them, macro to micro, in Iraq alone -- and bring our military home is beyond imagining.
