A senior administration official said that in meetings with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Mr. Ivanov made it clear that "they don't want to be engaged on two fronts at the same time," a reference to the continuing war in Chechnya.
From then on, he was fully engaged on two fronts: trying to prevent another explosion, principally by forcing the banks to hold bigger capital reserves, and dragging the U.S. economy out of the Great Recession, which officially ended in 2009 but, in many ways, didn't go away.
Now, virtually all of the Yemeni troops that had worked with the U.S. are engaged on one side or another of a three-pronged political struggle between the remnants of the Hadi government, supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the Houthi faction, U.S. officials say.
The group were also asked to engage on three occasions in expressive writing for 10 to 15 minutes about a traumatic event.
Islamic theology (kalām) and philosophy (falsafah) are two traditions of learning developed by Muslim thinkers who were engaged, on the one hand, in the rational clarification and defense of the principles of the Islamic religion (mutakallimūn) and, on the other, in the pursuit of the ancient (Greek and Hellenistic, or Greco-Roman) sciences (falāsifah).
But how must Albert Einstein have felt, while engaged on his two weeks of study of orgone properties?
They were in love and had been officially engaged on Facebook for three months.
Three patrols were engaged on road watch duties at any one time, with one watching the road for a week to 10 days, another would be en route to relieve them and the third was returning to Siwa after having been relieved.
This means that U.S. warplanes are likely to be engaged on at least two fronts: in the northwest, protecting the Yazidis and the U.S. military transport planes that will deliver the humanitarian assistance; and in the northeast, engaging the ISIS fighters between Mosul and Erbil.
