Sentence examples for missions organized from inspiring English sources

In an excellent discussion Peter C. Myers speculates that Douglass's "moderation" at this point was a reflection of "what was politically possible", and of his concern that benevolent missions organized by whites might encourage dependence in the freedmen and prevent them from developing and exercising the virtues of a free people.

Section 3. At the request of the Fund and with the concurrence of the government concerned, FAO may undertake appraisal missions on behalf of the Fund, or participate in such missions organized by the Fund or by any other cooperating institution entrusted by the Fund with project appraisal.

The weeklong mission, organized by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, represents the largest delegation of Canadian university leaders ever to travel abroad, the association said.

The writer Alice Walker is travelling to Gaza as part of a mission organized by the American anti-war group Code Pink to provide aid to Palestinian women.

They wanted to see for themselves what was going on and to participate in a humanitarian aid mission organized by the imam of a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan.

(Ross Perot, the billionaire and founder of Electronic Data Systems, selected Mr. Follett to write "On Wings of Eagles," the story of a 1979 mission organized by Mr. Perot to rescue two E.D.S. employees from an Iranian prison).

Why now? "We've been here for 40 years, and we thought it was about time for us to introduce ourselves," said Enkhsaikhan Jargalsaikhany, Mongolia's ambassador to the United Nations, whose mission organized the events.

Mr. Dao, a 43-year-old painter and performance artist from Hanoi, was one of 12 Vietnamese artists who came to New York last month on a kind of fact-finding mission organized by Dance Theater Workshop.

Hayabusa (formerly MUSES-C) was an engineering mission organized by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXAA) to demonstrate the technology to return samples from a near-Earth asteroid (Kawaguchi et al. 2003).

This led to a rescue mission organized by 3rd Battalion 3rd Marine Regiment, which sent a force of 30 men to extract the two wounded drivers.

While visiting a family member in Louisiana around 1870, Washington attended a Catholic mission organized by the Paulists at a neighboring parish.