These days American stars tend to travel abroad — say, to Sudan — to do good works, perhaps because it's easier to be engaged far from the trivializing of the entertainment media.
"We engaged far and wide.
Rather than follow, the British hung back, continuing to fire at long range; this prompted one French officer to write that the British "only engaged from far off and simply in order to be able to say that they had fought".
When he left in 2000, he was immensely wealthy, and, it seemed, engaged in pursuits far from the corporate grind.
As I grew up, I realized that such an aware and engaged lifestyle was far from the norm.
Significant manpower reserves were also needed, but a bill made for the provision of longer military service and training for the army, was rejected by the public on the basis that it would increase Belgium's military commitments as well as the request of the Allies to engage in conflicts far from home.
With reporters, he was relaxed, funny and eager to engage — a far cry from the inaccessible patrician I covered briefly during his ill-fated presidential campaign in 2004.
Amazon's site scores highly for navigational efficiency, but poorly in terms of the second criterion of good Web design, because it is far from engaging.
Far from engaging in dialogue with the United States, North Korea plans to strengthen its armed forces if Washington sets conditions for talks, a party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, said.
We are still making fun of him!" Far from engaging in shock-tactic attention-seeking, Melvins made it their mission to prevent the tragic story of their friend from becoming a romanticised death cult of self-martyrdom.
