abortive mission

They hoped yet to retrieve something from their abortive mission.

It must have seemed odd to Elliot, this abortive mission.

The trips were daunting and largely abortive missions, coming so shortly after the 1973 war.

He was certain that if that abortive mission were known, he'd've been aware of either ridicule or prurient interest.

Emily had only seen pics of the altered humans who had made the first abortive mission to Eridani.

Task Force 94 was redesignated TF 92 between that first abortive mission and the second one, begun on 26 August.

However, Boniface was a younger contemporary, his first and abortive mission in Frisia began in 716 or so, probably after Wulfram had died.

But since the day she'd visited the hospital-an abortive mission that had induced its own breed of nightmare-the tone of her dreams had undergone a vulgar transformation.

Shortly afterwards he took part in an abortive mission to France in favor of the Huguenots and to inspire a league against the House of Habsburg.

After an abortive mission against Port Sudan, Pantera was sunk by carrier-based Swordfish aircraft and Tigre was later scuttled.

Erected by John Dunn jun. after his abortive mission to the South Seas, this steam mill went into operation early in 1866, but was burned down late that year.

A Lockheed D-21B military reconnaissance drone aircraft makes an abortive mission to spy on the Lop Nor nuclear test site in the People's Republic of China.

Sent in an abortive mission to secure aid from Sassanid Persia by his father, Theodosius was captured and executed by Phocas's supporters a few days after Maurice.

A heroes' welcome had been planned, and Reyes clung to the hope that the Sagittarius crew's debriefing would prove more informative than the abortive mission on Gamma Tauri IV.

"Before we begin our discussions of the away team's abortive mission, I would like to extend my warmest appreciation to Doctor Gavar for her heroic actions in saving the lives of her crewmates.

Little is known about Sophonias, except that he was probably the monk sent by Michael IX Palaiologos on an abortive mission to arrange a marriage between Michael and a western princess around 1295.

The delegation was returning to Earth after its abortive mission to the Praetor's Representative, and while none were guaranteed to be sleeping, all were quiet--whether brooding, praying, planning the next course of action or silently mourning.

With only a handful of the 3,000 plus troops envisaged for UNOSOM ever put in place, the Security Council left it to "the discretion of the Secretary General" as to what should be done with the abortive mission.

Following the abortive mission, the Syrian Army in February 2012 launched an offensive against the district of Baba Amr, shelling the entire district and blocking all supply routes, which forced all civilians and FSA to evacuate by early March.

As Islamic envoys ended an abortive mission to secure peace in the gulf crisis this week, their voyaging between Baghdad and Riyadh seemed to mark a shift in the way their faith has come to be weighed in the region's crises since the fervor of the Islamic revolution a decade ago.

In 1682 he undertook an abortive mission to England in order to establish political links with the Moroccan ambassador, After moving to Hamburg and Danzig, and another visit to England in 1689, he was allowed to return to Paris on condition that he return to Catholicism and write against Socinianism.