(n.) Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life.
(v. i.) To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.
(v. t.) To traverse; to travel over or through.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(3) For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues.
(4) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
(5) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(6) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(7) The development of pulmonary edema in high-altitude residents with upper respiratory infections and no antecedent low-altitude journey is consistent with the presence of other factors such as inflammation, which may play a role in the pathogenesis of the edema.
(8) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
(9) An alternative route is the one via Paris, from where the journey continues to Holland or Great Britain.
(10) His torturous journey for a safer life has led to no life .
(11) He points to the seat where his friend was hit; he says only pride prevents him from lying on the floor for the entire journey.
(12) Davies, who worked closely with AHTSYL's producers to ensure an accurate picture, worries that some medical stories are sold solely as "emotional journeys".
(13) Greece standoff over €86bn bailout eases after Brussels deal Read more But while the bailout chiefs are poised to agree on a route map, the journey for the Greek people seems no less long and arduous.
(14) We wish to thank once again all the Chinese people and people around the world who have supported Beijing 2022 in this extraordinary bid journey.” Earlier, the president Xi threw his weight behind China’s bid, promising the “strongest support” for the Beijing Games in a one-minute video address to the IOC delegates.
(15) On Saturday I made my second trip to the campsite in Lower Stumble – my first journey was on 28 July.
(16) One of those queueing on Sunday morning was Veerle Schmits, 43, a social services worker from Haringey, north London, who was due to travel to Belgium on Saturday to see her family for a belated new year’s party but was forced to delay her journey.
(17) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
(18) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
(19) During their last conversation in April, Gulru told her that Isis had given the family $30,000 for their journey to Aleppo.
(20) But the controversy generated by Lindsay Lohan's Indian Journey, documenting the Hollywood actor's investigation into child trafficking was not quite matched by its ratings, with 224,000 viewers on Thursday, 1 April.
Mission
Definition:
(n.) The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.
(n.) That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.
(n.) Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
(n.) An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.
(n.) An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.
(n.) A course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers.
(n.) Dismission; discharge from service.
(v. t.) To send on a mission.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(2) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
(3) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
(4) In late 1983 the Hagahai sought medical aid at a mission station, an event which accelerated their contact with the common epidemic diseases of the highlands.
(5) She then spent five years as director of mission and pastoral studies at Cranmer Hall.
(6) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(7) "We hope that we can help in designing the future missions to Mars," said the Frenchman, Romain Charles.
(8) He still insists that the nation will return to surplus by 2020 – a make-or-break target that will define the success or failure of his fiscal mission.
(9) Pharmacists are criticized for a failing sense of mission and a waning dependence on knowledge.
(10) Motion’s inner dialogue with his father’s memory coloured his own mission to Germany, but he was conscious of the incongruity of his presence among the Desert Rats.
(11) After Tuesday’s launch Pan told Xinhua the mission marked “a transition in China’s role ... from a follower in classic information technology (IT) development to one of the leaders guiding future IT achievements”.
(12) "I believe it is important to take stock of how technological advances alter the environment in which we conduct our intelligence mission," he explained.
(13) Was this a museum with a mission to educate, or not?
(14) Yury Bubeyev, the chief psychologist on the project, said his 10-person team noted no serious conflicts during the mission.
(15) Beijing says the island outposts will serve maritime search and rescue missions, disaster relief, environmental protection as well as undefined military purposes.
(16) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
(17) One of my favorites, on the mission's "Participate" web page , is the "Be a Martian" virtual reality apps (web and mobile).
(18) Describing the Standard as a "good paper", he said his "social mission" was to help the ailing title survive.
(19) If there is any movement by Russian forces across the border, it won’t be a humanitarian mission, it will be an invasion.
(20) The guarantee he gives of success is, again, based on his military record, citing what has become his catchphrase : “Mission failure is not an option.” 7.