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‘A mission can be humanitarian.’

[⟨det mission.n⟩ humanitarian.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Also, the tour organizer explained that the trip was clearly a vacation, with an emphasis on cigars and nightclubs and fun, not a humanitarian mission.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Vadim, obviously, doesn’t have a mind for a humanitarian mission.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

“My mission, if I have one, is humanitarian, and concerns all people, not just a few.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

At a morning press conference, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that’ ’ the mission the president has given us at this point is humanitarian.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A’ ‘vigorous’ ’,’ ’ humanitarian mission to the people of Georgia headed by the United States military.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

However, Israel will not even permit the agency to carry out its humanitarian mission, and they are not exempt from the effects of siege.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

As Russia is demonstrating to be the sole military power in the strategically vital Caucasus region, NATO foreign ministers urged Russian President Medvedev to keep his word and pull out Russian combat troops from Georgia, sending President Bush American troops to Georgia to oversee a humanitarian mission, monitor if Russia was honoring ceasefire and Russian troops are withdrawing from Georgia, a provocative move, deepening US commitment in this country,? an important transit corridor for oil and gas from Central Asia and the Caspian region to the West.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Although the National Guard is trying to make contact with Ice Cuba resistance leaders, Palin said the primary mission is humanitarian.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Update: Russia Today just described Russian troops actions in the Georgian town of Gori (where people are being robbed, houses are being burnt and Georgian proprty is being destroyed) as a’ ’ humanitarian mission’ ’.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

But while settler groups in the US contend that their mission is somehow humanitarian, Palestinians describe the horrors of living under a military occupation that is in place to protect and expand the Israeli colonies, and say these US groups, and the US government, are complicit in their oppression.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

President Bush has directed the U.S. military to lead a humanitarian mission to Georgia where tens of thousands have been forced out of their homes following a Russian invasion last week that has been described by Georgia’s president as an’ ’ ethnic cleansing.”
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In Wikipedia:

In Georgia, the process of deportation and crackdown on allegedly illegal Georgian businesses in Moscow was described as ethnic cleansing. Vice – president of the Federal Migration Service of Russia, Mikhail Tyurkin, said that immigrants “head home, to their mothers and children” and termed the mission “humanitarian.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Bush, the U.S. government and its military – who, lest we forget, are guilty of murdering more than a million Iraqi civilians by way of their very own and very indisputable act of overt aggression, to say nothing of atrocities in Afghanistan or the ceaseless drumbeat toward a prefabricated war with Iran – are in Georgia on a’ ’ humanitarian mission’ ’.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Reacting on the invasion of South Ossetia by Georgian forces, Russia’s massive assault on Georgia, a defiant show of strength, produced, as expected, a more measured response from Obama and a forcefully demand from McCain and President Bush, blaming Moscow for invading its neighbor and requesting to cease military operations immediately and reciprocate without delay a ceasefire offered by the Georgian government, accepting President Medvedev a tentative peace plan brokered by French President Sarkozy, who visited Moscow on behalf of the European Union and signing a revised framework for a deal to halt fighting, making it clear that Russian troops will not pull out immediately and have to remain as peacekeepers in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the two breakaway regions of Georgia pretending to join the Russian Federation, demonstrating that it is the sole military power in the strategically vital Caucasus region, urging NATO foreign ministers Russian President Medvedev to keep his word and pullout Russian combat troops from Georgia – and sending President Bush American troops to Georgia to oversee a humanitarian mission, monitor if Russia was honoring ceasefire and Russian troops are withdrawing from Georgia, a provocative move, deepening US commitment in this country, an important transit corridor for oil and gas from Central Asia and the Caspian region to the West.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Probably has to do with the mission being more humanitarian than military (Dallas has one 76mm gun and one Phalanx anti-missile gun) and, also, its rather tricky to send combat ships through the Dardanelles.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

You may become fanatically involved in art or a humanitarian mission.
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In the British National Corpus:

Some military observers fear the US could get entangled in another Vietnam but President Bush warned: “Our mission is humanitarian and we will not tolerate armed gangs ripping off their own people.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

American military personnel taking part in a humanitarian mission in Botwood have had their efforts hampered following the theft of specialized equipment from a warehouse in the town overnight Wednesday.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Describing the U.S. response to the current situation in Georgia as a? humanitarian mission? is therefore a serious distortion.
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Queried on 2013-05-19.