A wrong word or two here would not only preclude any possibility of obtaining his help, but might even compromise their mission.

It would compromise our own mission if we pretended they, and their problems, didn't exist.

If it is possible to do so without compromising my mission.

Anything that made people remember his appearance could compromise his mission.

That has not compromised their central mission, however.

As he sees it, "a turf war" began that compromised the commission's mission.

It cannot compromise his mission if he tells the elderly priest this one fact.

And how far should hospitals go to compete without compromising their central mission of healing the sick?

However, by the 1980s the Derg had compromised its mission.

You're about to compromise your mission and jeopardize your career.