So, breaking with tradition, are several of the national missions.

The Stennis Center is a federal agency with a national mission.

Post War Japan in the 1950s made it a "national mission" to accelerate its education program.

The existence of a single language, he thought, made all the difference in staging a national mission.

The survivors were told to forget the past and direct their energies to the national mission of building a Jewish state.

"We need a national mission to find the next Jim Ryun."

We came out of the last world war with tremendous global power, but without any sense of national mission other than containing the Moscow threat.

And it has to be our national mission.

It starts by making education a national mission - a national mission.

From the Canadian point of view, the absence of a national mission is a blessing.