Sentence examples for prior engagements from inspiring English sources

Gosden did not speak but wore the face of a man inclined to insist on prior engagements being fulfilled.

Asked whether she will be attending the Inauguration it's not clear whether she has been invited Juliet delicately but pointedly cited prior engagements.

Food from an era when offering British cooking to foreign friends would cause them to remember prior engagements and leap from 10-storey windows.

Mr Stollmann the free-marketeer, stresses the CDU with delight, was not even in Berlin for the presentation of the programme, supposedly because of "prior engagements".

Rather than endlessly pleading prior engagements or explaining your diet, why not bring your own lunch and ask the restaurant's manager to plate it for you?

Mr. Taylor's spokesman, Vaanii Passewe, told The A.P. that the president had not been officially notified of the delegation's plans and that he had been occupied by prior engagements, including directing the war effort.

Turnbull has a prior engagement.

Presumably the Muppets' Swedish Chef had a prior engagement.

We will not withdraw investment without prior engagement.

Presumably C.C. DeVille had a prior engagement on a cruise ship.

It would be such a nuisance to find myself with a prior engagement.