On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.

On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.

On the other hand, many a pastor is so absorbed in ministering to the intimate, personal needs of individuals in his congregation that he does little or nothing to lead them into a sense of social responsibility and world mission.

On the surface, this seems a sound approach to Christian mission: members of the congregation show by their friendly attitudes that they care for new people ; ;

On the border of the insignia, there are sixteen stars, representing the mission number, and the names of the crew members: Young, Mattingly Duke.

:" On this account I have not the power, nor do I dare, to approve the objects of your mission until I can consult our gods by the casting of lots and until I can enquire the will of the people in regard to this matter.

On 28 February 2011 ONUCI consisted of 7, 568 troops, 177 military observers, and numerous international civilians and Police ; the mission had received helicopter and infantry reinforcement from UNMIL during the stand-off since the late 2010 elections which had been won by Alassane Ouattara.

On October 14, 1962, a United States Air Force U-2 plane on a photoreconnaissance mission captured photographic proof of Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba.

On its official website, Greenpeace defines its mission as the following:

On September 21, 2003, after 14 years in space and 8 years in the Jovian system, Galileos mission was terminated by sending the orbiter into Jupiter's atmosphere at a speed of over per second, to avoid any chance of it contaminating local moons with terrestrial bacteria.

On June 1, 2004, the peacekeeping mission was passed to MINUSTAH and comprised a 7, 000 strength force led by Brazil and backed by Argentina, Chile, Jordan, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, and Uruguay.

On 19 March, the first Allied act to secure the no-fly zone began when French military jets entered Libyan airspace on a reconnaissance mission heralding attacks on enemy targets.

On 7 August 1942, a German Focke-Wulf Fw 200 " Condor ", probably on a mission to bomb the station, smashed into the nearby mountainside of Danielsenkrateret in fog, killing all 9 crewmembers.

On a mission to Bithynia to secure the assistance of King Nicomedes's fleet, he spent so long at his court that rumors of an affair with the king arose, which Caesar would vehemently deny for the rest of his life.

On 1 March 1940, Ribbentrop received Sumner Welles, the American Under-Secretary of State, who was on a peace mission for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and did his best to abuse his American guest.

On January 19, 2006, the first spacecraft mission to explore the Kuiper belt, New Horizons, was launched.

On 21 June 1898, the American executives of the Mission Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church expressed their desire to join other Protestant denominations in starting mission work in the islands and to enter into any comity agreement that would facilitate the establishment of such mission.

On 11 October the Security Council met and issued a statement and reaffirmed its " strong and unwavering support for the Secretary-General's good offices mission ", especially the work by Ibrahim Gambari ( During a briefing to the Security Council in November, Gambari admitted that no timeframe had been set by the Government for any of the moves that he had been negotiating for.

On his subsequent visit to Beta Colony, in quick succession, he obtains a ship, a pilot, and a smuggling mission, running guns to a beleaguered government.

On 1 August 2010 the Dutch military formally declared its withdrawal from its four-year mission in Afghanistan ; most soldiers are expected to be back in the Netherlands by September, excepting those working on the reset, redistribution and repatriation of materiel and supplies.

On this mission, he performed the first docking of two spacecraft, with pilot David Scott.

On this mission, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface and spent two and a half hours exploring, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command Module.

On April 25, 2012, the Ecuadorian Space Agency announced that due a technological change in the video camera of its first satellite it will be adding a 3rd mission, which is to help organizations and individuals around the world monitor for small, most dangerous near-earth objects directly from orbit in real time and help fine tune the catalog of orbital debris by injecting the live video signal of the satellite into the Internet, thus turning the NEE-01 Pegasus in the first online, real-time video orbital sentry.

On another mission, he disguised himself as a German officer in order to enter a munitions plant in Italy, to determine if new weapons were being developed there.

On recent motherboards, the BIOS may also patch the central processor microcode if the BIOS detects that the installed CPU is one in for which errata has been published.

On the other hand, just because there is not an immediate financial incentive to patch a product, does not mean there is not any incentive to patch a product.

; Change list: On many version control systems with atomic multi-change commits, a changelist, change set, update, or patch identifies the set of changes made in a single commit.

On the journey, Bill saves his bunkmates from asphyxiation by improvising a patch when a meteor punctures their compartment.

On every hand they are smitten with decay, and here and there a patch of unworn gravel is all that remains of a once great boulder.

On the night of September 16, 1850, Stewart heard rustling out in his corn patch and saw a moving object, which he fired at, killing Chief Terikee, of the Shoshone people.

On the way, they stop at the pumpkin patch to ridicule Linus ' missing the festivities, just as he did last year ; but Linus is convinced that the Great Pumpkin, recognizing the sincerity of his patch, will come, and even persuades Sally to stay and wait with him.

On most women, the pubic patch is triangular and lies over the mons pubis.

On many men, the pubic patch tapers upwards to a line of hair pointing towards the navel ( see abdominal hair ), roughly a more upward-pointing triangle.

On March 22, Apple released a patch for the iTunes Music Store blocking the use of his PyMusique program.

On the shoulder is a large white patch and the flight feathers are barred with black and white.

On December 31, 2003 the Thrashers played the Detroit Red Wings, during the game both teams wore the commemorative patch.

On the Web, each site is a patch and information is the prey.

On the shoulder of the jersey there is a patch of the mighty duck logo which was no longer used in the 2006 – 07 NHL season with the logo the Ducks are currently using.

On the shore of Moray Firth at Rathie a small patch of Kimeridge shale occurs, and beneath the cliffs of Shandwick there is a little Lower Oolite with a thin seam of coal.

On the same day as the game's release, Sports Interactive also released a patch to fix some bugs discovered during the Beta and Gold stages of development.

On April 4, 2008 Blizzard released a new test version of Warcraft III patch 1. 22.

On July 1, 2008 patch 1. 22 was released.

" On the other hand, Aristotle's Arabic commentator Ibn al-Bitriq considered " the Milky Way to be a phenomenon exclusively of the heavenly spheres, not of the upper part of the atmosphere " and that the " light of those stars makes a visible patch because they are so close.

On the field, the team wore New York Yankees uniforms that featured the flag patch of Staten Island on the sleeve.

On the second page of the novel, as aviator Jonas Cord approaches the landing strip of his father's explosives factory, Robbins writes: " The black roof of the plant lay on the white sand like a girl on the white sheets of a bed, the dark pubic patch of her whispering its invitation into the dimness of the night.

On the rounded face, there is a pale white patch above the nose and between the eyes ; some individuals have dark orbital markings.