Sentence examples for life engaged from inspiring English sources

Clark returned to England and for most of his life engaged in both academic research and public service.

Ensor spent the latter half of his life engaged in a very careful stewardship of his own legacy.

When you have spent your whole life engaged with real and imagined threats, the lens through which you view the world will inevitably be biased toward the military.

"He embraced compromise as a necessary element of public life, engaged his political foes in the passage of important legislation, and was willing to break with the base of his own party in order to do what he thought was right, whatever the price".

Disillusioned by the shift from the New Deal toward cold war politics, Dr. Williams writes, he would "spend the last months of his life engaged in a contest to preserve what he regarded as Roosevelt's proper legacy; he would die believing it had been all but lost".

Raised poor in urban America, I have spent most of my adult life engaged in some form of retroactive profligacy, casting my money to the four winds as a way of compensating for not having any money to waste as a kid.

Sam was a quiet scholar all his life engaging himself in biomedical research and developments in medical technology.

Criminologists who study prison life engage in ethnography, a branch of anthropology that involves studying alien cultures, in their case, inmate society.

But also because they understand that by engaging a child with fun activities and ways to raise money you are more likely to keep them through their life, engage their children and so on.

His parents divorced when he was a child, and he dropped out of high school at the age of 14. Wahlberg led a troubled life, engaging in stealing, drug dealing, substance abuse, and violence.

"I think the audience will gain a real insight into the ingenuity and survival skills and really just being comfortable in the bush – just their daily life, engaging their country, celebrating country," he says.