This was a fact-finding mission, so of course I exited without completing my order.
An outspoken critic of human rights in Malaysia, Mr Xenophon was on an election fact-finding mission.
It refused to co-operate in the fact-finding mission, saying the mandate prejudged the outcome.
And a fact-finding mission to the US had revealed the extent to which higher education was "money driven".
Darley was dispatched on a fact-finding mission to Cleveland, and reported back that the exhibit had real promise.
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He is sending the head of the US Export-Import Bank, on a fact-finding mission to Argentina and Brazil.
This week it was revealed that a North Korean delegation has been on a secret fact-finding mission to Canada.
The father-of-two has recently been awarded one of 125 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust "travelling fellowships" to fund his fact-finding mission.
On Thursday, Mr. Kerry took the unprecedented step of trying to block a fact-finding mission to Honduras by Republican Sen.
Gadhafi urged them to send a fact-finding mission to Libya because his regime has committed no human-rights violations or atrocities against civilians.
An Australian senator on a fact-finding mission to Malaysia says he has been refused entry because authorities consider him a "security risk".
The Obama Kremlin, er, White House, claims its clandestine doctor survey was simply a fact-finding mission to determine possible shortages among primary care physicians.
Complete a major fact-finding mission comparing science funding strategies and innovation policies in Europe, the United States, China, Japan, India, Australia and South Africa.
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Kerry has told biographers and reporters that his 1970 trip to Paris was a fact-finding mission to the protracted and often stalemated peace talks.
For example, the Administration strongly opposed last month at the Human Rights Council the creation of a fact-finding mission regarding settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
He looked to be a man on a fact-finding mission, working the room, trying to figure out who would be with him if he does decide to run.
Wilson had publicly described a fact-finding mission he undertook for the CIA, during which he found no evidence that Iraq had attempted to purchase materials to manufacture weapons of mass destruction.
Libby seemed agitated, she said, that news outlets reported Vice President Cheney had sent Wilson on a fact-finding mission to Niger, to determine whether Iraqi officials had attempted to obtain nuclear materials there.
However, Mr Clegg has said the drugs minister at the Home Office, Liberal Democrat Jeremy Browne, will be sent on a fact-finding mission to look at the experience in countries experimenting with decriminalisation and legalisation.
U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley is scheduled to begin a fact-finding mission to the Middle East, to determine how the U.S. can promote trade and commerce to bolster peace process initiated by the Wye accord.
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization in Paris, France, recommended a fact-finding mission should be dispatched to Baghdad immediately to determine the extent of the recent looting and pillaging of Iraqi cultural institutions, including the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad.
"The magnitude of violations relating to Israel's policies of dispossessions, evictions, demolitions and displacements from land shows the widespread nature of these breaches of human rights, " Unity Dow, member of the fact-finding mission from Botswana, said in a statement.
Wilson angered the Bush administration when he publicly described a fact-finding mission he undertook for the CIA. While on the mission, Wilson said he found no evidence that Iraq had attempted to purchase materials to manufacture weapons of mass destruction.
Meanwhile, several groups in the United States are sufficiently concerned about the risks of another oil spill that is dispatching a group of quasi-diplomats to Cuba on a fact-finding mission as early as tomorrow, according to reports in Dow Jones.
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The purpose of his "fact-finding" mission was to castigate the Bush administration for its refusal to pursue Syria as an ally, and to decry Damascus's international isolation caused by its support for the insurgency in Iraq, its strategic alliance with Iran, its support for Hizbullah as well as Hamas and al-Qaida, its illicit nuclear program and its subversion of the pro-Western Lebanese government.
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