Mr. Cruise is Jack, a man with a mission that's more mundane than one might guess from the weapons he wields and the so-called bubble ship he flies.

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The boxing kit is a stunt dreamed up by Brendan Barns, the organiser of the fourth annual London Business Forum, and a man with a mission: to exterminate boring business conferences.

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The amateur psychoanalysis may be simplistic, but it certainly sits nicely with the Malaysian prime minister's public profile: the man with a mission, beholden to no one in his determination to defend Malaysia's rights and have its voice heard in international forums.

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He lightheartedly recalled a "man with a high mission" who also enjoyed playing Stratego, a board game drawing on Napoleonic history, and belting out "La Marseillaise" and French nursery rhymes when the two companions found themselves in trying circumstances.

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Above all, Zhu is a man in a hurry, with a mission to make up for lost time, both for himself and for China.

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In these universes, the man he becomes is Booker DeWitt, a Pinkerton muscle man tasked with the Columbia mission, the one who sold his daughter, and the one who eventually led the Vox Populi to victory over Comstock.

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Aglialoro is a man on a mission, struggling with an inherent contradiction in his quest to commit one of the most influential novels in history to film.

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When you've held a conversation with a man, briefed him on his mission, his objective and reminded him of the potential consequences during the actioning of it, only to hear he never returned, and did not die gracefully, though blessedly quickly, prayerfully painlessly... you do not breathe the same ever after.

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With nanotechnology, he was a man on a mission.

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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.

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Here is a man from Georgia, in 1994 creating a goal of Mission Zero: to run his global manufacturing company with zero impact on the environment by the year 2020.

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