Sentence examples for vague missions from inspiring English sources

He adds that newfangled and more vague missions abroad, far beyond the borders of NATO, combined with the ethical demands of Innere Führung, require young soldiers, in effect, to be "diplomats in uniform".

There are a lot of "ifs", "maybes" and "possibles" in these concepts but, if one of them was adopted, it would give the Orion programme a more compelling ambition than the current vague notions of vague missions to vague asteroids.

Documents obtained by the Guardian reveal how the foundation has put that vague mission statement into practice.

Financial targets and vague mission statements just cannot provide the consistent direction that is a prerequisite for winning a global competitive war.

His slightly vague mission statement is a far cry from the message of the trap that's come from Atlanta in recent years.

"Faced with branding a holding company with an intentionally vague mission," he said, "the designers probably opted to explore a lot of purely abstract marks.

He believes that houseflies are spying on him for the government; he is on an extremely vague mission to find his father, whom he thinks has been kidnapped by the consultant running his drug trial.

He's on a dangerous, if vague, mission to rally support from officers in the Vichy government forces in Algiers and to free a group of French resistance fighters, his English girlfriend among them.

And this was in a crowd heavily sympathetic to the orchestra, which has a vague mission of multicultural exchange and happily includes some traditional ethnic instruments (Indonesia's angklung and Georgia's panduri, among others), in addition to Western classical ones.

In some cases, the ventures were truly central to the missions (for example, a job-training organization creating employment opportunities); others were only loosely related (a children's theater renting out costumes); for still others, there was a vague mission-related element on top of the operation (a children's choir starting an ice cream venture whose employees sing while scooping).

The laser precision of the bloc's Cold War mission was replaced by a vague mission and an uncertain vision.