Their mission is to attack OZ directly, in order to rid the Alliance of its weapons and free the colonies from its oppressive rule.

* The Global Alliance, an international peak organisation with a mission to enhance the public relations profession and its practitioners throughout the world.

; Early concepts: Civilizing mission, Platt Amendment, Holy Alliance, Hague Conventions ( 1899 and 1907 )

Steve Perry's novel Shadows of the Empire describes a mission that leads to the Rebels learning of the second Death Star's existence, and that mission is playable in LucasArts ' X-Wing Alliance combat flight simulator.

Finally, X-Wing Alliance added a much-desired custom mission builder feature.

Zaire Christian and Missionary Alliance mission field opens.

The campaign quickly went viral and received national news media attention, and Lucasfilm issued a tongue-in-cheek statement about the matter which read, " The last time we checked in with Admiral Ackbar he was leading the Rebel Alliance Fleet on a critical mission so it will be difficult for him to show up for the games!

" GM gave him a Florida Cadillac franchise as a retirement gift, and DeLorean did in fact take over the presidency of The National Alliance of Businessmen, a charitable organization with the mission of employing Americans in need, founded by Lyndon Johnson and Henry Ford.

The Alliance hastily sent a secret scientific mission to study the relics, but a massive Hierarchy's offensive forced the Alliance fleets to retreat beyond Vela ; the mission commander, Captain Burton, decided to go into hiding on the planet and sent back the Tobermoon, her only starship, asking for help.

He was specifically chosen by Interstellar Alliance president John Sheridan because he would be willing to take chances and would not let diplomacy get in the way of completing the mission.

The Covenant of the Alliance of Baptists lays out seven principles the churches are committed to: the freedom of individuals to interpret Scripture for themselves ; the autonomy of the local church including its ability to ordain both men and women ; cooperation with other Christians and the wider Church ; servant leadership and inclusion for all people in mission and ministry ; emphasizing theological education by the support of colleges and seminaries ; proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ and calling people to repentance, faith, reconciliation, social and economic justice ; and the separation of church and state.

The group's own mission statement claimed that the NSM was " formed in June 108 yf of the Fuehrer "-a system of measuring the years from Adolf Hitler's birth also employed by the National Alliance ( United States ) | National Alliance and similar groups for the purpose of championing the cause of Aryan identity and Aryan freedom " whilst also committing the group to the establishment of a " National Socialist State ", and although the NSM calimed to be a political party, much of its literature advocated violent revolution.

The Alliance leaders accepted the view that the mission had achieved a measure of success.

The university is a member of the University Alliance, a mission group of British universities established in 2007.

She has supported organizations such as the Alliance for Retired Americans and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, who share the mission to ensure social and economic justice and full civil rights for all citizens so that they may enjoy lives of dignity, personal and family fulfillment and security.

The hospital was initially established by The Evangelical Alliance Mission as a mission hospital but has subsequently been taken over by the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health.

Lyta Alexander accompanies Sheridan on this mission, but no other members of the Alliance outside of the Minbari offer to help.

The Alliance intends to use the Rangers, whose primary mission against the Shadows has now expired, as the arbiters and peacekeepers of the Interstellar Alliance.

The word " mission " originates from 1598 when the Jesuits sent members abroad, derived from the Latin missionem ( nom.

According to the 2001 pilot episode of the TV-series Enterprise, " Broken Bow ", the Star Trek: The Original Series title sequence mission statement of Kirk's Enterprise originates from a speech given by Zefram Cochrane at the dedication of the Warp 5 Complex in 2119:

The oyabun was entertaining a group of dignitaries, the secretary said, businessmen from Tokyo for the most part, and Kayabashi wished to show them the mission.

His brothers' anger caused Palfrey genuine concern, for he had imposed a dual mission upon himself: to free his slaves, and to keep the family from falling apart over the issue.

Instead of the expected `` annoyances '' due to the nature of his mission, he received many calling cards and invitations from `` gentlemen of mark, on whom I had no sort of claim, & have had many more invitations than I could accept ''.

Can we continue to alienate precisely those whose gifts we so desperately need and apart from whose co-operation our mission in the world must become increasingly precarious??

But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the conflict between him and the Hunkerish society was not something which could be evaporated into a genteel difference about clerical decorum.

* Real-time audiovisual recreation of the Apollo 11 mission to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum

In the beginning of April 2012, when a new military Coup d ' état was under preparation, the Angolan regime decided to withdraw its military mission from Guinea-Bissau.

When the populace rebelled in late January 1204, the emperors barricaded themselves in the palace and entrusted Alexios Doukas with a mission to seek help from the crusaders.

* 1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.

Launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12: 54 PM EST on 16 April 1972, the mission lasted eleven days, one hour, and fifty-one minutes, and concluded at 2: 45 PM EST on 27 April.

Geologists believed prior to the mission that both of these formations were volcanic in origin ; however, samples returned from the lunar surface have since proven this hypothesis is incorrect.

The insignia was designed from ideas originally submitted by the crew of the mission.

They had hoped that scientific output from the Apollo 16 mission would confirm their suspicion.

It was these formations that the scientific community widely suspected were formed by lunar volcanism ; however, this hypothesis was proven incorrect by the composition of retrieved lunar samples from the mission.

The Apollo 16 mission successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12: 54 PM EST on 16 April 1972.

By the time mission control issued the wake-up call to the crew for flight day two, the spacecraft was approximately away from the Earth, traveling at about.

With the preparations finished, Young and Duke undocked in the LM Orion from Mattingly in the Command / Service Module Casper 96 hours, 13 minutes, 13 seconds into the mission.

In order to improve Young's and Duke's sleep schedule, the third and final moonwalk of the mission was trimmed from seven hours to five.

Young drove the rover to a point about east of the Lunar Module, known as the ' VIP site ', so its television camera, controlled remotely by mission control, could observe Apollo 16's liftoff from the Moon.

Eight minutes before departing the lunar surface, capsule communicator ( CAPCOM ) James Irwin notified Young and Duke from mission control that they were go for liftoff.

* ( Part 1 ) NASA film on the Apollo 16 mission from the Internet Archive

* ( Part 2 ) NASA film on the Apollo 16 mission from the Internet Archive

The novel Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston opens with a depiction of the Apollo 17 moonwalks using quotes taken from the official mission transcript.

The first book gives a history from 788 onwards of the Church in Hamburg-Bremen, and the Christian mission in the North.