Sentence examples for managed to engage from inspiring English sources

Peter Gelb, the Met's general manager, scrambled while on vacation in Sardinia and managed to engage Stephen Wadsworth to take Mr. Stein's place.

DFID has managed to engage in such contexts better than most.

"And he did the near-impossible: he managed to engage the obstinate Milosevic and pull him in".

While British multiculturalism has been more successful than other European approaches, its greatest weakness was that it never managed to engage the majority white population.

I then managed to engage some delightful gent who'd just picked up something from the chemist to help me rid my car of the hairy beast.

While I was definitely more inclined to opt in to a public television historical program, film-maker Ken Burns's nine-night masterpiece managed to engage and enrich everyone.

Eventually, the hope is that a single model will manage to engage both groups, combining grassroots influence over consumers with the structural improvements promised by new relationships between insurers and providers.

Suppose that we hit the debt ceiling, and that the Treasury manages to engage in "prioritization" — paying interest on bonds, so that all the burden falls on other kinds of spending.

It's a book that manages to engage some of the things (food and houses and sex) that we — for better or for worse — care a lot about in life, but often find silly in fiction.

If this sounds complicated, be assured that Mr. Moore rings many more intricate variations on his basic format, which, while it commits to the visible, manages to engage the mystery of what lies beyond it.

She says that, increasingly, civil society is acting as the bridge between governments and communities, and she measures her success in the number of people she manages to engage in fighting for equitable rights and distribution of resources.