Sentence examples for should not have engaged from inspiring English sources

She said she felt the play suggested that he should not have engaged in espionage.

There was no mention of the island being discovered but Croft was prosecuted for illegal exports of salt, on the grounds that, as a customs officer, he should not have engaged in trade.

I shouldn't have engaged him," Warner told Sky Sports Radio.

I was in the wrong … I shouldn't have engaged him.

I would not have engaged.

Bundy speculated that Kennedy, who believed that military means never should be deployed in pursuit of an indeterminate end, wouldn't have engaged in a protracted war.

"It is apparent that the child should not have been allowed to engage in any active physical conduct," Mr. Levy said.

"The board and the strategic committee should not have permitted Mr. Yang to engage in these discussions, particularly given his ineptitude in dealing with the Microsoft negotiations to purchase the company in 2008," Mr. Loeb wrote.

Households and businesses should not have to depend on a handful of financial institutions "that engage in so many risky activities".

The judge was engaged in a form of political activity in which he should not have been.

Or, if Mr Obama had never wished to engage in a long wrangle with Mr Netanyahu, he should not have made such ambitious demands in the first place.