Sentence examples for engaged him as from inspiring English sources

Many other major orchestras engaged him as guest conductor.

The British Army engaged him as its consultant vascular surgeon.

Sometime previously he had come to know the widow of the chancellor, Joseph von Breuning, and she engaged him as music teacher to two of her four children.

Cunningham first met Cage in 1938 when Bonnie Bird, the dance instructor at Cornish, engaged him as the accompanist for her dance classes.

Uncle Arthu had promised William, on his deathbed, to keep Oscar out of the theatrical business, but he finally gave in and gave Oscar his first job, when he engaged him as assistant manager of one of his own productions.

He initially displayed reluctance to fill the role due to his loyalty to former coach Moores - the man who engaged him as his assistant two years earlier - but has since established himself as one of the most highly-regarded coaches in world cricket.

School didn't engage him as much as cars, trucks and football.

If Mr. Arafat actually carries out such a rigorous antiterror campaign, it would be in Israel's own interests to re-engage him as a peace negotiator.

The City Opera engaged him for its inaugural production as the Sacristan in Puccini's "Tosca" on Feb.

In Vienna, Gluck soon found a patron in the imperial field marshal Prince Joseph Friedrich von Sachsen-Hildburghausen, who engaged him first as Konzertmeister of his orchestra and later as Kapellmeister.

MacLeish, who regarded the nation's purpose with patriotic seriousness, had served a stint in the State Department, where he wrote Presidential proclamations (for instance, after victory in the Pacific) and long memoranda on topics that engaged him, such as the denazification and reëducation of Germany.