Definition of rescue mission
: a city religious mission seeking to convert and rehabilitate the down-and-out
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Even after that campaign ended in 2014, the nation has coordinated rescue missions in the central Mediterranean.
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But since 2013, Italy has officially coordinated rescue missions in the central Mediterranean, after a shipwreck left more than 350 migrants dead near the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.
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But since 2013, Italy has officially coordinated rescue missions in the central Mediterranean, after a shipwreck left more than 350 migrants dead near the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.
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Doctors Without Borders, the organization operating the search-and-rescue mission, says there is only about two or three days' worth of food and water left on the ship and a number of passengers need medical attention.
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War with Spain prevented speedy resupply of the colony—the first English settlement in the New World—and when a rescue mission arrived 3 years later, the colonists had vanished.
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At least 75 people are dead and 192 are missing due to the weekend eruptions at the Volcan de Fuego, which have also halted rescue missions as search crews were forced to evacuate.
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Andrew Madjeska, who coordinates search-and-rescue missions for Coast Guard Sector Columbia River.
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The conflict between Rogers and Nunes eventually came to a head over the committee’s handling of five C.I.A. contractors who performed a rescue mission in Benghazi on the night of the raid.
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First Known Use of rescue mission
1879
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