9 sentences with 'mission'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mission and other words derived from it.
• « His mission, after all, was to motivate future writers, and next to him was a little eight-year-old girl, eager for that motivation. »
• « I go to the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross, whose mission is to support prisoners of war. »
• « Alexander the Great immediately embarked on his father's mission to attack Persia, leading a relatively small army (of about 45,000 men) into Persian territory - note how much smaller this army was than the Persian army had been a century earlier, when Xerxes I had invaded with over 200,000 soldiers. »
• « In turn, Tsar Alexander I sincerely believed that he had a mission from God to maintain the sacred order of monarchy, nobility and clergy. In this, he was influenced by time: he became tsar shortly after Napoleon seized power in France. »
• « For Russia and Tsar Alexander I, however, it was nothing less than a truly holy mission to be carried out regardless of the practical benefits. »
• « While Europeans tended to justify their conquests by citing a "civilising mission" that would bring the guiding lights of Christianity and Western civilisation to supposedly ignored regions, there was another factor at play that provided a much more tangible excuse for conquest: rivalry between European states. »
• « All the factors mentioned above, the quest for profit, for raw materials, the continuing power struggle between the great powers and the "civilising mission" reached their collective zenith in Africa. »
• « After the war, Hitler was sent by the army to the southern German city of Munich, which was filled with angry, disenchanted army veterans like himself. His mission was to investigate a small right-wing group, the German Workers' Party. »