Sentence examples for engagements to perform from inspiring English sources

We ask all dancers to refrain from accepting engagements to perform any Graham work".

Frequent engagements to perform at official celebrations, graduation feasts, weddings and other celebrations around Kampala produce a surplus income used to help pay the school and university fees of many of its members, buy medicines for their sick relatives and food for the poorest.

The noun has a second meaning, which originated in jazz lingo: "an engagement to perform, usually for a single evening".

In fact, Aon Hewitt's extensive database of UK employee attitudes shows that with the general decline in real incomes, pay dissatisfaction has grown, as has the importance of pay in explaining staff engagement to perform.

The next step was an engagement to perform the King's will after his death, signed in his presence by Northumberland and 23 others.

The participants' engagement and motivation to perform well were maintained by verbal encouragement during practice and between runs.

When Mr. Feinstein got his current New York engagement, he asked Mr. Lane to perform with him.

On 6 May, the Germans launched a counter-attack which forced the 3rd Brigade to withdraw from their trenches; it was during this engagement that Howell was to perform the act which was to earn him the Victoria Cross.

But he continued to perform solo engagements, mostly in Southern California.

During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, he canceled several engagements and rushed to Israel to perform in hospitals, often at patients' bedsides, and for troops in the Negev, where he wove the melody of "Hatikva," the Israeli national anthem, into his performances of the Mendelssohn Concerto.

The unengaged engagement we're called on to perform doesn't deserve to count as support of Malala and her goals: It hardly understands either.