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Origin of rescue mission

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby rescue mission

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How to use rescue mission in a sentence

He said he is worried Americans remaining in Afghanistan could soon be in a similar crisis if a more unified rescue mission is not developed.
An army of veterans and volunteers organizes online to evacuate Afghans, from thousands of miles away|Jonathan Baran, Alex Horton, Elizabeth Dwoskin|August 26, 2021|Washington Post
Many companies and universities have been working on robots that can take on human-supporting tasks, from monitoring health, to going on rescue missions, to just being a butler.
Tesla wants to make humanoid robots. Here’s their competition.|Charlotte Hu|August 24, 2021|Popular-Science
Days later, Tropical Storm Grace swept over the ravaged landscape, hampering the complicated search and rescue mission.
First Came an Earthquake. Then a Hurricane. Now, Haiti is Bracing for an Outbreak of Disease|Eloise Barry|August 20, 2021|Time
It’s a good choice for rescue missions in bad weather, like what a pilot might encounter off Alaska.
What it’s like to rescue someone at sea from a Coast Guard helicopter|Rob Verger|July 20, 2021|Popular-Science

If so, archaeological director Francesco Sirano and his colleagues suggest, the man may have been a rescue mission leader who arrived just in time to die with the people he was trying to save.
Mount Vesuvius victims died just moments away from rescue|Kiona N. Smith|May 14, 2021|Ars Technica
Soviet leaders had already decried the rescue mission as an act of imperialist aggression.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis|Nina Strochlic|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But it will not attempt to replicate its search-and-rescue mission.
Britain’s Let-Em-All-Die Policy|Nico Hines, Barbie Latza Nadeau|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the call, Obama explained that this information about the rescue mission was classified.
Foley Family to White House: You Saved Bergdahl. Why Not Our Son?|Eli Lake|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then Obama stunned John and his wife Diane, informing them of the failed special operations rescue mission from early July.
Foley Family to White House: You Saved Bergdahl. Why Not Our Son?|Eli Lake|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But the Europeans had been freed in the weeks before Obama ordered the rescue mission into Syria, the Foleys said.
Foley Family to White House: You Saved Bergdahl. Why Not Our Son?|Eli Lake|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Held services there, and in the evening in a Rescue Mission.
Prisons and Prayer: Or a Labor of Love|Elizabeth Ryder Wheaton
It formerly engaged in a rescue mission work for both men and women.
Commercialized Prostitution in New York City|George Jackson Kneeland
But the winters were so unduly harsh that the rescue mission could not break through the ice to keep the rendezvous.
The Armed Forces Officer|U. S. Department of Defense
I found the Milwaukee Rescue Mission incomplete and inadequate.
Broke|Edwin A. Brown
Not long ago a speaker in a rescue mission asked the children if they could tell him where heaven was.
Fifty-Two Story Talks To Boys And Girls|Howard J. Chidley