Sentence examples for running engagement from inspiring English sources

A running engagement with the French fleet on April 9, 1782, led up to his crowning victory (the Battle of the Saints) off Dominica, when with 36 ships of the line he defeated the Count de Grasse, who had 34 ships (April 12), severely damaging French naval prestige but failing to save Britain's position in North America (see American Revolution).

At launch, the billion-dollar snacking company Mondelēz International will be running engagement ads on Hulu for Swedish Fish and Halls.

During the battle she hunted down and captured the 40-gun frigate Belle Poule in a running engagement.

In a bitterly contested running engagement, Junon was badly damaged and suffered heavy casualties before surrendering to the numerically superior British force.

The light cruiser Midilli narrowly escaped a running engagement with the Imperatritsa Mariya on 4 April 1916 as the battleship narrowly missed her several times before she could disengage.

Advertising on Instagram was first introduced in the U.S. all the way back in September 2013, but, until today, Brits have escaped the invasion of sponsored content, though, of course, plenty of brands have already set up shop on the photo social network, including running various engagement marketing campaigns.

Roughly three-quarters of the AFT's locals are now running member engagement programs.

I've spent quite a lot of time reading through the summary of the comments from the large Council-run engagement process that was run in 2011, and a green, sustainable and ecological city was largely what people wanted.

He left to form Fulcrum Learning which runs parental engagement programmes, focused on academic development.

Karzai has tended to run his engagement with the Taliban "out of his hip pocket," as a Western diplomat in Kabul put it.

It will increase in momentum and scale towards 2015 and beyond, and will run alongside engagement of the six public constituency groups.