Sentence examples for hitherto engaged from inspiring English sources
He would sit motionless for hours reading a book on quantum field theory – not a subject that he had hitherto engaged with.
After receiving the news of the Soviet attack, Sixth Army headquarters failed to order the 16th and 24th Panzer Divisions, hitherto engaged in Stalingrad, to reorient themselves to bolster the Romanian defenses; instead the task was given to the seriously understrength and poorly equipped 48th Panzer Corps.
Some young people with eating disorders have described themselves as becoming more ill, in relation to their eating but also in terms of self-harm behaviours which they had not hitherto engaged in [ 26].
But the scene was set for England to find a gear hitherto not engaged and do whatever was necessary.
In commiting myself in the face of death that is, aware of the nothingness of my identity if not supported by me right up to the end the roles that I have hitherto thoughtlessly engaged in as one does now become something that I myself own up to, become responsible for.
Among the main characters, we meet the Attorney General, described as a man whose job had hitherto "seemed not to have engaged him fully".
2.... How do you reconcile the left's claim that [the] Bush Administration has [post-9/11] engaged in a fascist expansion of government power hitherto unseen in US history with the claim that crises lead to undemocratic free market reforms?
In March 1941 he was sent to the Middle East as commanding officer of the 1st Australian Mobile Bacteriological Laboratory, and was soon engaged in the diagnosis of a variety of hitherto uncertain diseases.
Even fewer were expecting this larger-than-life artist to return with a vital piece of work that engaged with the post-trip hop end of dubstep and a hitherto unexplored familial connection with evangelical gospel song.
