Sentence examples for Brief engagements from inspiring English sources

Most "battles" of the war were sharp, very brief engagements between units of fewer than 200 men.

While her day job involves working on substantial projects over long periods, Arts & Jobs allows McCrory to initiate brief engagements with younger artists.

In this time of brief engagements and even briefer marriages involving celebrities, Mattel would do well to celebrate Barbie and Ken's 43-year relationship.

As a straight man for comics, he got one-night stands at churches and lodges, and brief engagements in the stage shows that movie theatres used to put on before the film.

When she's in Vegas on these brief engagements, she stays in a secured, private villa that is apart from but within a casino complex, a hidden lap of luxury exclusive to the highest rollers — the Chinese business executives, the Russian oligarchs — and our dear, sweet Cher.

As the final battles of the conflict took place near Shahumyan, in a series of brief engagements in Gulustan, Armenian and Azerbaijani diplomats met in the early part of 1994 to hammer out the details of the ceasefire.

After a brief engagement at the Berlin opera, she was engaged in Munich, Germany, where, in 1896, she appeared in Coppélia.

The French VII Corps captured Mulhouse after a brief engagement on 7 August, but German reserve forces engaged them in the Battle of Mulhouse and forced a French retreat.

There was a brief engagement.

This brief engagement includes Mr. Lynch along with the saxophonists Abraham Burton and Jaleel Shaw and the drummer Greg Hutchinson.

Once recovered, he ended his brief engagement: "I ask you to dismiss me.