The question of sanctions figures in two distinct campaigns of engagement — toward Iran, and toward Russia.
In Ankara, Mr. Erdogan said Turkey had revised its military rules of engagement toward Syria.
"And part of that, we'd hope, is that they show some form of engagement toward the community at large.
Unfortunately, the Bush administration appears to have chosen a policy of containment and confrontation, instead of engagement, toward North Korea.
In an effort to play a more constructive role in the Caucasus, the E.U. last year adopted a more forward-looking strategy of "non-recognition and engagement" toward Abkhazia intended to promote more contacts.
Since 2005 or so I've worked as a translator and promoter of Chinese literature, and — to borrow the grand language of the London Book Fair — I've generally adopted a "strategy of engagement" toward Chinese writers.
"I think that the best role for the league to play here is through constructive engagement toward change, not setting deadlines, not making ultimatums, but working with the private sector and the government to effect change in North Carolina," Silver said.
Conversely, the United States' "business first" policy of economic engagement toward China's dictatorship has helped turn what was, in the 1970s and 1980s, a fragile, disoriented and struggling regime desperately seeking a way out of its failed communal agrarian economy, into one of history's most repressive but lucrative dictatorships.
It continued that tradition for activism today as students booed General Powell for an array of American foreign policy actions from the bombing of Iraq during the Persian Gulf war to military support for Israel to the policy of "constructive engagement" toward South Africa during the days of apartheid.
The more I pull out of engagement toward reflection on and questioning of my situation, the more I am threatened by ethical anguish—"which is the recognition of the ideality of values" (Sartre 1992: 76).
