Sentence examples for mission sought from inspiring English sources

John Noble Stearns, a supporter of the Cremorne Mission, sought to put up an 11-story office building on Broadway near Exchange Place, using traditional bearing-wall construction.

Led by the exiled Indian prince Raja Mahendra Pratap, this mission sought to invite the Afghan Emir Habibullah Khan to break with Britain, declare his independence, join the war on the Central side, and invade British India.

The mission attempted to secure the rescinding of the excommunication of those whom Becket had placed under clerical ban, but it was unsuccessful; rumours circulated that the mission sought and secured papal permission for the coronation of King Henry's eldest living son by someone other than Becket.

This mission seeks to achieve the first visit to the Sun to explore the physical phenomenon that occurs at close proximity to our star.

The MICROSCOPE mission seeks to extend the accuracy of previous EP tests to 10−15, by avoiding the disturbances inherent to every Earth based test facility.

The Yarn Mission seeks to "use yarn to promote action and change to eradicate racism, sexism, and other systems of oppression".

The chief scientist John Grotzinger says the $2.5 billion mission seeks "insight into the evolution of Mars" through a Calvin and Hobbes-esque neutron-shooting hydrogen detector and X-ray beam.

"It's like water flowing uphill". For answers, she said, humans must reach and "touch the sun" through the seven-year, 24-orbit mission, seeking solar secrets at the furnace door.

One question the mission seeks to answer is how the radiation belts give rise to ultrarelativistic electrons — particles that streak around the Earth at 1,000 kilometers per second, circling the planet in just five minutes.

Columbia Journalism Review Books expands upon this mission, seeking to publish titles that allow for greater depth in exploring key issues confronting journalism, both past and present, and pointing to new ways of thinking about the field's impact and potential.

Some Republicans hinted that their defection might prove to be permanent.See article: The tax cut meets CongressA European Union mission seeking to persuade the Bush administration to draw back from its public abandonment of the Kyoto protocol on climate-change went home empty-handed.