Sentence examples for the difficult mission from inspiring English sources

The difficult mission is the reason for the rigid training.

Mr. Stein, who retired in 1976, was something of a diplomat without portfolio, traveling from state to state with the difficult mission of seeking compliance through steps that avoided penalties or court action.

The principal aim of the airstrikes unleashed today is to tilt the balance of power within Afghanistan against the Taliban and give American-led forces unchallenged command of the skies for the difficult mission to come.

The difficult mission of the two canvassing boards, as instructed by circuit judges in each county, is to try to glean the voter's intent from "a ding, a nick, an indentation, a dimple, a dent, whatever," as Judge Charles E. Burton, chairman of the Palm Beach County canvassing board, put it today.

But Dr. Gai, 52, says he is being vilified for executing the difficult mission he was hired to fulfill: turning a backwater of a department into a ranked player in the insular world of nuclear physics -- and, if necessary, ruffling a few feathers.

But perhaps the biggest challenge comes in the third of those tasks, which encapsulates the difficult mission of man management.

In his weekly radio address on Saturday, he again referred to the urgency of fixing the immigration system, saying it was one of the "difficult missions" the country must take on.

As Gates prepares to leave office later this year, his speech could be read both as a judgment on the difficult missions the military has taken on over the last decade and a prediction that future conflicts would look radically different.

"I think for me it's the most difficult mission I have had," he said as his crew scanned the seas off Lampedusa.

The key question for us is whether he can succeed with the very difficult mission that he has set out, and we have not come to a judgment with respect to that".

Mr. Kerry told the now-and-then Guardsman about the "extraordinarily difficult missions" of our troops in Iraq: "I know what it's like to go out on one of those missions where you don't know what's around the corner.