Can anything be less passionate than being engaged for years followed by spending a year or more planning a wedding?
Tyco International engaged for years in financial gimmickry to inflate its earnings, the company acknowledged yesterday, saying that it would erase $382 million in profits it had previously claimed.
There is no chance of her discussing with me her intriguing relationship with former professor of Sanskrit Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, to whom she was engaged for years.
But it will need more than this to get disparate forces engaged for years in bloody, vicious, combat, to stop fighting each other.
The two had been engaged for years in a surreptitious relationship that Mr. Necas finally acknowledged in July, telling Tyden that being romantically involved with a senior aide while he was prime minister was probably a bad idea.
She favors rapid entry into the European Union for her country and was actively engaged for years in the demonstrations against Slobodan Milosevic, marching in the cold and choking on tear gas to help rid the country of its dictator.
Hiddink was wary of triggering a verbal battle with his compatriot but readily acknowledged his positioning in a debate with which he has been engaged for years and which has this season found echoes at Old Trafford.
Mr. O'Brien, who built his billions by forming cellphone networks from Ireland to the South Pacific, has engaged for years in bitter public feuding with the elder Mr. O'Reilly, the long-dominant figure at Independent News.
Under a time charter a ship may be engaged for years or several voyages; customer and owner split the costs.
The National Network of 'Precari' Researchers (RNRP) indicates that some 50,000 precarious (precari) researchers--postgraduates, Ph.D. students, postdocs, and lecturers--have been engaged for years on temporary contracts and grants with a monthly salary of between €800 and €1200.
