Sentence examples for present engaged in from inspiring English sources

We are at present engaged in reducing another few hundred.

He is at present engaged in a globe-girdling array of undertakings that include hotels, hospitals, libraries, colleges, as well as a complete urban development in Akron, & an enormour international-trade market in New Orleans.

Peter Ackroyd, our most industrious and prolific man of letters, is at present engaged in an ambitious, six-volume history of England, the first two volumes of which appeared in 2012 and 2013.

The EPO is at present engaged in the recruitment of a large number of new examiners to work in Munich, Berlin, or The Hague.

The Soviet forces present engaged in plunder of the former eastern territories of Germany which were being transferred to Poland, stripping it of valuable industrial equipment, infrastructure and factories and sending them to the Soviet Union.

As we know, Labour is at present engaged in a "debate over the party's future", for which we can read: a petty, childish squabble where everyone keeps purging and suing and projecting their own bad behaviour onto each other like they've been trapped grimly re-enacting the "Sectioning" scene from Peep Show for eternity.

I am fully present, engaged and interested in what goes on around me, whether it's a conversation with an old friend or a haunting, antiphonal carol sung in a dimly lit church.

When I was invited to deliver an InspirEngage bootcamp at the Sunday Times Education Festival at Wellington College last year, I was struck by how few young people were present and engaged in a conversation that affected their futures.

The researchers say that many parents of children who received the drug reported that their children were more "present" and engaged in social interactions after taking it.

They may be transitioning in relationship, desiring more purposeful work, facing an illness, grieving a loss, or wanting to be more fully present and engaged in life.

This habit of blindly accepting passed down, dogmatic beliefs will always stand between us and our authentic selves, distracting us from being fully present and engaged in life in the most meaningful way.