Sentence examples for last engaged from inspiring English sources

They last engaged in a series of such length in 1969-70.

In early 1999, while the countries were last engaged in talks, the Pakistani military was planning a huge incursion into the mountains near the Indian town of Kargil.

They had last engaged in Chancellorsville, Va., at the start of May, when Lee's army, outnumbered 2 to 1, had brilliantly outmaneuvered the Yankees under the feckless command of Gen. Joseph Hooker.

Others relate that the Thracians, under the command of one Alexander, set upon the Roman beasts of burden that were bringing forage to the camp; that to oppose these, a party of seven hundred Ligurians were immediately detached; and that, relief coming still from both armies, the main bodies at last engaged.

Any volcano – from the smallest to the widest to the tallest, from the lava effusing to the pyroclastic flow producing – that's been quiet for some time since it last engaged in an eruption makes people wonder, understandably, if it's "overdue" for another eruption.

They are at last engaged in protest via the 2016 presidential campaign, and Sanders, who calls for debt-free higher education, is their champion.

Russia may at last engage in serious tax reform.

If the countries of the Security Council and regional powers can at last engage a concerted and principled effort to do so, we can put an end to the metastasizing conflicts that are ripping apart so many lives and driving people to flee.

The nest first built now contains four young ones, nearly fledged, and the owners of the last are engaged in incubation; but the poor female remains in all the misery of singleness, scarcely daring to leave her house, lest it should be demolished before her return.

Now-forgotten battles followed over universal access to contraception and the rights of non-Christian families to adopt; in the first half of the last century, engaged atheist philosophers such as Bertrand Russell and AJ Ayer took up the baton of crusading humanism.

When the US marines landed in the south, an armoured column immediately set out to meet them, eager at last to engage the enemy.