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‘A country may have a mission.’

[⟨det country.nhave.v ⟨det mission.n⟩]

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He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1974, and was assigned to the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations in New York.
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The Bush administration has charged that Iran is funding anti-American fighters in Iraq and sending in sophisticated explosives to bleed the U.S. mission, although some of the administration’s charges are disputed by Iraqis as well as the Iranians, the Los Angeles Times reported in October.
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Also, the idea that France had a civilizing mission was spreading.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

TOKYO – Taro Aso, the front – runner to be Japan’s next prime minister, hinted Wednesday he would end the country’s military mission flying goods and personnel into Iraq.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In the last month, two companies withdrew from a $ 100 – million project to lease aerial drones for the Afghanistan mission.
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I don’t think the poisonous effect of neoconservatism can be overstated – to the extent that it draws on liberal idealistic principles (its founders were ex – Marxists after all), it has mixed itself up with that group to the point that now the worst assumptions of each line of thought have become the conventional wisdom (America has a historical or religious mission to spread democracy, all peoples everywhere are striving toward the goal of an American – style society, etc.).
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Also, the idea that France had a civilizing mission was spreading.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The author says the most dangerous aspect is that the ruling elite of America actually believe the US has a civilizing mission and the right to invade any country it wants to.
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In Wikipedia:

Its February 23, 2007 theatrical release in the US was three days after the 45th anniversary of the country’s first orbital mission, Friendship 7, piloted by John Glenn.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Their service will be more efficient and beneficial to all if both institutions develop better cooperation according to the circumstances of place and time’ ’. 13 Likewise, therefore, the Catholic Church which is in China does not have a mission to change the structure or administration of the State; rather, her mission is to proclaim Christ to men and women, as the Saviour of the world, basing herself – in carrying out her proper apostolate – on the power of God.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

President Lech Kaczynski told TVP public television that Poland had a mission to inform western countries, and the EU in particular, of the nature of the aggression by Moscow.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

HBO’s political commentator Bill Maher “Our leaders are sending [the military] out on a task that is from God “Sarah Palin on the US mission in Iraq “I think there’s a really good chance that Sarah Palin could be president; and I think that’s a really scary thing.
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The Chandrayaan – I satellite has successfully undergone the thermal vacuum test even as Indian space scientists achieved a major milestone inching closer to the country’s first mission to the moon.
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In the end, America has a mission which is being fulfilled, and is the modern experiment of communism – or as George Bush Sr. put it “Commutarianism’ ’. Either choice you make in this election will have no desired benefit for your overall well – being.
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Rice said international observers should be dispatched quickly to Georgia and its separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia where Russia currently has a peacekeeping mission.
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He believed that Germany had a special mission to lead the world and as such rejoiced at the coming to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933.
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In Wikipedia:

Barbados has diplomatic missions headed by resident ambassadors or high commissioners in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Venezuela, and at the European Union (Brussels) and the UN.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The author says the most dangerous aspect is that the ruling elite of America actually believe the US has a civilizing mission and the right to invade any country it wants to.
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China has a great mission overlaid on five thousand years of recorded history.
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Queried on 2013-05-22.