rescue mission

noun

|Updated on: 11 Aug 2018

Definition of rescue mission

: a city religious mission seeking to convert and rehabilitate the down-and-out

Recent Examples of rescue mission from the Web

The Thai navy has released new footage from inside the Tham Luang cave, where 12 boys and their coach were trapped for more than two weeks, revealing more details about the multi-day rescue mission that captured the attention of the world.

— rebecca tan, Washington Post, "New video from Thai navy shows the scene inside Tham Luang cave during dramatic rescue," 11 July 2018
Divers freed the last of 12 young soccer players and their coach from a dark, flooded cave in northern Thailand on Tuesday, capping a daring international rescue mission watched around the world.

— phred dvorak, WSJ, "All 12 Boys and Their Soccer Coach Rescued From Thai Cave," 10 July 2018
But as the situation in the caves has gotten more dire, the rescue mission in the caves will likely welcome the assist.

— radhika viswanathan, Vox, "Elon Musk: let’s build an “air tunnel underwater” to save the Thai boys in the cave," 6 July 2018
The monarch’s 13-year-old son, Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti, wrote a card in German, wishing the rescue mission success, according to the Royal Household Bureau.

— hannah beech, The Seattle Times, "For some Thai soccer-team members, cave ordeal was only their latest test," 10 July 2018
The monarch’s 13-year-old son, Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti, wrote a card in German, wishing the rescue mission success, according to the Royal Household Bureau.

— hannah beech, New York Times, "Stateless and Poor, Some Boys in Thai Cave Had Already Beaten Long Odds," 10 July 2018
Cheers erupted at a local government office where dozens of volunteers and journalists were awaiting news of whether the intricate and high-risk rescue mission had succeeded.

— kaweewit kaewjinda and stephen wright, The Christian Science Monitor, "After 18 days, entire Thai soccer team rescued from cave," 10 July 2018
But rescuers began to teach the boys, between the ages of 11 and 16, to swim last week before the rescue mission began.

— radhika viswanathan, Vox, "How the 12 Thai boys were finally rescued," 10 July 2018
The rescue mission recently donated 40,000 pounds of food and bought separate leashes for every dog to improve sanitation during a recent flu outbreak.

— rebekah l. sanders, azcentral, "Doggy treadmills are a thing, and they're saving lives in Maricopa County," 25 May 2018

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