Sentence examples for engaged half from inspiring English sources

Bustanoby's engaged half a dozen young men to dance with unaccompanied women, one of them was Rudolf Valentino.

Facades were often elaborately decorated with panels of pilasters (recessed columns) or engaged half columns, skillfully modeled in mud-brick.

Two engaged half columns (i.e., attached to the wall and projecting from it for about half their diameter) of the Cretan type were secured to the facade; this was approached by a dromos, or ceremonial passageway, riveted with cyclopean blocks of masonry and open to the sky.

He gossiped with the elders, threw dances in his house, engaged half-heartedly in the local courting rituals and explored the beliefs, superstitions and intensely local politics that formed their worldview.

Though she and her colleagues had hoped to attract 200 volunteers, they were only able to engage half that many.

At Cisco, in a recent Innovate Everywhere Challenge that engaged nearly half of our 72,000-person workforce, we adapted Adobe Kickbox with industry best practices and our own experiences.

He said that the government is "really engaged in half-truths and creative accounting".

But Mr. Barofsky — and other critics of the bailout that have sought to portray the rescue effort as a money-losing failure — may be engaged in half-truths and creative accounting of their own.

Half comatose, half engaged, we gravitate toward whatever silos make us happy.

Agriculture is of basic importance to Assam, engaging about half of the total working population and generating roughly one-third of the state's gross product.

Here at home, SUNY has committed to engage its half million students across 64 campuses in HeForShe, and Stony Brook's Vice Provost Charles Robbins has been designated by SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher to orchestrate the campaign's roll-out.