The agency's core mission, the industry argued, was to make sure that drugs reaching the market were safe and effective.

Data protection is not a core mission of any government agency.

Advocacy for environmental protection and against large-scale mining are part of its core mission.

Despite the changes, he said that the magazine would not abandon its core mission of addressing personal finance issues.

"But we would never let that compromise our core journalistic mission, which is to report the news without bias."

Their core mission has been cut to the bone.

It has been called the "most ambitious attempt by any research university to make public service part of its core academic mission."

The time has come to get American troops back to this core mission, and take them out of the night watchman game.

"I think it is appropriate for an institute to re-examine its core mission," he said.

The core mission must be experienced and have appropriate technical expertise.