Sentence examples for engaged crew from inspiring English sources

For a long time, difficulties such as lack of a suitable story and an already fully engaged crew of writers delayed the project.

While there, a boat crew from Connecticut engaged a crew from the French battleship in a rowing race; Connecticuts crew won by twelve lengths.

At his signal, the soldiers and sailors crowded onto the deck and railings, ready to leap onto the British ship and engage her crew in hand-to-hand combat.

He told the court that his crew engaged in piracy against his will, and said he had warned them that he would leave the crew unless they stopped robbing vessels.

The death rates among the European captains and crew engaged in the slave trade were at least as high as those among their cargo on the Middle Passage.

As they entered the final 500m there was a strange energy within the venue as it appeared the crowds were more engaged than the crews.

The Allies were unaware of the fate of the operation until they intercepted a German communiqué stating that two gliders and one aircraft had been forced down, and the crews engaged and annihilated.

The I.C.R. released its own footage, along with press statements alleging that the Sea Shepherd crew had engaged in high-seas "illegal harassment and terrorism".

All but one of the Great Neck crew is engaged in radical protest against the war; several gradually relinquish their allegiance to nonviolence.

Jacobs's crew is engaged in a "pointless killing" of the animals, in which the writer is indirectly complicit, leading him to sense "that this environment I had violated would eventually demand its revenge".

To help recreate the ambience of an era in which discretion vied with the lack of privacy and mainland traditions kept company with the fragmenting forces of modernity, Mr. Wong hired a chef to cook Shanghai dishes for the cast and crew and engaged retired Hong Kong radio announcers, now in their 70's, to record radio programs for the soundtrack featuring bits of Mandarin pop and Chinese opera.