To the rest of the cricketing world he may be one of the most thoughtful and polite spokesmen for the game; to Australia he seems the embodiment of their mission to prove nice guys finish last.
Taitz has made it something of a mission to prove that Obama is not eligible to be President.
There is a similarly sad story in baseball these days, as The Miami Herald's Dan LeBatard details the story of Jim Leyritz's mission to prove his innocence in a drunk driving crash.
The finished film is the Temptation story cut to the bone and stripped of theological baggage: the tale of two callow Portuguese Jesuit priests, Fathers Rodrigues (Garfield) and Francisco Garrpe Adam Driverr), who travel to Japan on a mission to prove the innocence of their mentor, who is rumoured to have gone over to the brutal Buddhist regime.
Yet that is not the issue as it relates to the 2004 finals, to the Nets' continuing mission to prove they are capable of being a co-host to something greater than a Western Conference coronation in June.
Wednesday night's Champions League fixtures send Ibrahimovic, Sweden's record goalscorer and the star of Paris Saint-Germain, back to Malmo, the home town he left 14 years ago on a mission to prove himself as one of the best footballers in the world.
Wilson told VICE News that he is on an ideological mission to prove that an abundance of guns in America is inevitable, and that gun control is doomed.
But Dawkins is on a mission to prove that all spirituality is the field of fools and knaves.
I have made it my mission to prove them wrong".
Cygnus is on a demonstration mission to prove its technology.
The WISE mission, an all-sky survey using parallax measurements in order to clarify local star distances, was capable of proving or disproving the Tyche hypothesis.
