Sentence examples for could have been engaged from inspiring English sources

Investigators in the cockpit of the wreckage found the auto-throttle switches set to the "armed" position, meaning that the auto-throttle could have been engaged, depending on various other settings, she said.

Mr. Romney called on Mr. Gingrich to return $1.7 million he received in consultancy fees and suggested without elaboration that his rival could have been engaged in "potential wrongful activity of some kind".

But the fact the inspector general has received documents to consider "for issues of legality or propriety" suggests the oversight role conferred once an operation has been authorised could have been engaged.

And whatever the ambiguity of her feelings for him, they assume a poignancy and even tragedy when we learn that Wong's emotions could have been engaged elsewhere, far earlier in the story.

Kreindlin said it was "absurd" to think that an organisation with a long history of non-violent protest could have been engaged in any kind of violent hostile activity.

First, stakeholders could have been engaged earlier to set the scope of the project, to consider whether to focus on existing treatments and therapies consistent with tackling 'treatment uncertainties', or take a broader scope to encompass other topics that epidemiological or laboratory-based research could address.

We look up from our computer, iPad or iPhone, where we've just spent time on something that is really of no importance to us when we could have been engaging in a more meaningful activity.

This could be regarded to all free epoxy groups that have been engaged with the enzymes [ 25].

"Could Ret have been engaging in a little prepublication blackmail?" Rannie wonders.

In virtually all previous decisions under 18C, the respondent could have claimed to have been engaging in public discussion on one of the included categories".

Second, the respondents could all be considered to have a vested interest in microbicides as they had been engaged in the research agenda for a number of years.