Sentence examples for demanding engagement from inspiring English sources
It seeks to do this, as the title suggests, through privileging — even demanding — engagement and imaginings of new accountings that — it seems inevitable — owe at least as much to pragmatism as to critique.
Vosshall sees the study as a preliminary skirmish in a longer, more demanding engagement.
Socio-technical system change demands engagement of and interaction between different types of social actors.
Rather, it is nationalism, which demands engagement but on ruthlessly competitive terms.
Governments can normalize relations and create conditions conducive to reconciliation, but reconciliation itself demands engagement at a personal level by civil society.
While the economy is much improved from when Mr. Obama took office, his agenda and external events continue to demand engagement with big business even as he seeks to represent the interests and complaints of average Americans and small businesses.
We see not just a group of people shaped by their presence in Britain but shaping it: not content with being tolerated by "hosts" they demanded engagement in their new home.
This woman's powers of cognition were limited, but her capacity to experience emotion seemed unimpaired, and she demanded engagement in the way that a small child does: it made no more sense to resist her impulse toward intimacy than it would to withhold a smile from a baby.
That new model of leadership is premised on a timeless understanding of American politics: a) that the true power of the presidency is the power of persuasion; and b) that persuasion usually demands engagement.
And when it comes to the moving target that is a television show, I don't demand perfection (as if anyone could ever satisfactorily define what that is), I just demand engagement, entertainment and food for thought, and the 40 shows on this list, whatever their stumbles, provided some mixture of that this year.
