Sentence examples for idea of engagement from inspiring English sources

The president seems irretrievably wedded to the idea of "engagement".

It's a little confusing, and "fun" has been rather too scrupulously avoided; or, a little more generously, its idea of "engagement" is somewhat dour and limited.

To people whose idea of engagement with the world is the Internet, this novel is a reminder that there was a time, not so long ago, when, as the narrator says, "we still believed that history merited a second look".

Her idea of engagement is to blast away until she gets her way, as she did with Lindsay Davenport after falling into a 1-4 first-set hone, on the way to winning, 6-4, 7-5.

"It would help hardliners prove to Rouhani and those who support the idea of engagement with the outside world in general and with the US in particular that there could be no friendship between the two," he said.

2) Each employer's idea of engagement and how to bring it about is different.

The idea of such engagement — of a "new evangelization," a "new springtime" for Christianity — is hardly a novel one for the Vatican.

The recent Obama-Karzai meeting in Washington brought only a very limited endorsement from the US leader for Karzai's idea of closer engagement with Taliban elements.

The idea of passionate engagement came to seem nave and foolish as we moved from an innocent, 19th-century, pre-Freudian childhood to a 20th-century adulthood, detached and analytical.

Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi has endorsed the idea of limited engagement, but she has insisted that both the junta and the United States talk with the opposition as well.

While hard-liners around President Bush press for a tough stance, hoping to open a debate about whether to support "regime change" after the American election, some in the State Department are said to be more sympathetic to the idea of diplomatic engagement, as urged by many Arab and European allies.