The hospital board has long been reluctant to make money-saving changes that might reduce its traditional mission.

Too many such series, however, would conflict with the traditional mission of broadcast TV: to reach the mass audience.

The legal profession has a traditional mission and role in society.

They have to tend to their traditional missions, too.

The entire defense community was faced with dramatic departure from what had become the traditional mission.

But it still had to enforce traditional missions, which include preventing the illegal importation of merchandise.

Even the Pentagon is dubious about that, the armed services having quite enough to do in their traditional missions.

The goal of "keeping families together" has eclipsed the traditional mission of protecting the child.

Its traditional mission was winding down, in part because it had done its job so well.

"Much of this is a harkening back to the traditional mission of the liberal arts education," he said.