The word "missions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "missions" to refer to a task that is a part of a larger effort. For example, "NASA's mission is to explore the universe."
Indeed, you did extraordinary work on a host of critical missions during my time as director, and I am deeply grateful to you for that.
As it does not involve search and rescue missions it will not be covered by British government policy which regards the rescue of desperate migrants as only encouraging others to make the hazardous journey.
It respects the missions of different institutions, in a way that the research excellence framework, league tables and newspapers do not.
Autocratic leaders across the former Soviet Union have been known to dispatch "quid pro quo" observer missions to each others' elections to lend them legitimacy.
This doesn't mean companies shouldn't make a profit, but should extend their missions to making sure that they and everyone else have enough resources now and in the future, she added.
For months the US airforce and RAF planes have been heavily involved in air strikes and reconnaissance missions across Iraq that are credited with helping slow the advance of Isis fighters and have now paved the way for ground operations.
In a vast majority of titles, we're shown a vast explorable landscape, which we can roam at will – but laid on top of that is the authored story, with its dramatic choreographed missions and cinematic sequences.
Jennings said such missions were likely to trigger criticism from the Chinese government, but he argued the bigger risk was not to take such action.
Andrews' spokeswoman said the Australian government had "not had formal talks with the United States on 'freedom of navigation' missions in the South China Sea".
The minister had met the US defence secretary, Ash Carter, twice but "the expansion of current operations or new missions in the South China Sea was not discussed", she said.
The EU plan, endorsed by ministers on Monday in Brussels, will see 90,000 diplomats in over 3,000 missions lobbying to win new pledges on carbon cuts from countries ahead of a crunch UN climate summit in Paris this December.
