Sentence examples for overlapping missions from inspiring English sources

Against the Russians, Georgian command and control withered quickly, and army and police units were operating on their own, often at cross purposes or overlapping missions.

A British proposal to restructure separate operations in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia into a unified command whose forces could share overlapping missions in the three zones could free greater numbers of troops from Balkan peacekeeping.

Gaps in the record could be devastating to climate science because researchers require overlapping missions so as to calibrate each sensor to one another.

To get the biggest picture now available, Paolo and his colleagues stitched together satellite radar altimetry data from three consecutive and overlapping missions: the European Space Agency's (ESA's) ERS-1 and ERS-2 (which flew from 1991 to 2000 and 1995 to 2011, respectively), and ESA's ENVISAT mission, which collected data from 2002 to 2012.

It was, he assured Americans, meant to coordinate all government activities to protect U.S. computer networks, while promoting collaboration among a confusing landscape of federal cybergroups with "overlapping missions".

In this case, the constraint forcing innovation is the overlapping missions: to build adventure hostels catering to the evolving digital nomad audience and, at the same time, to give products and people in Panama a second chance.

What they preside over is visibly a competitive bureaucratic mess of overlapping principalities whose "mission" might be summed up in one word: more.

To that end, the vision for Copernicus is that becomes an open-ended mission of overlapping satellites.

"Legend" is told in alternating chapters by the teenagers June, a brilliant but militaristic girl from the leading Republic, and Day, a Dickensian-poor boy from the slums, whose missions overlap: one authoritarian, the other humanitarian.

Those years included eight missions that maintained, through overlapping individual stays, at least three astronauts on the ISS at all times.

The mission overlaps considerably with that of Comet Labs.