Definition of rescue mission
: a city religious mission seeking to convert and rehabilitate the down-and-out
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And so, with the combination of love and gumption endemic to any 12-year-old dog owner, Atari hijacks a small plane and undertakes a rescue mission.
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What was supposed to be a fun outing with a grandson turned into a rescue mission for 72-year-old Finneytown man, Dan Smoker Sr.
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The overall plot itself isn't all that complex, a straightforward rescue mission that requires breaking into a fortress in order to break out.
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In 1980, the failure of the Iran hostage rescue mission highlighted the need for a new type of aircraft that could land and take off vertically like a helicopter, then level out in flight like a plane.
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The rescue mission has now turned into a recovery effort, officials said at a pre-dawn news conference.
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Yet the Republicans' all-hands rescue mission was not enough to salvage Saccone's candidacy.
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Yet the Republicans’ all-hands rescue mission was not enough to salvage Saccone’s candidacy.
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With The Space Between Us, the similarities are mainly in the stories’ plots: woman working as a janitor becomes captivated by a mistreated, imprisoned fish-man and attempts a rescue mission.
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First Known Use of rescue mission
1879
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