Sentence examples for standing engagement from inspiring English sources

He broke off a standing engagement, and they were married a month later.

Then it's business as usual next week, with a standing engagement on Monday and Tuesday at Sofia's.

His standing engagement at Smalls, on Sunday nights, has become a prized institution; next week he also performs at an earlier hour, in a shinier uptown room, probably to a slightly different clientele.

Mealtimes, times during which you have standing engagements, or periods usually used for socializing are not the best choices.

He did honour a long-standing engagement at his local football club in Bath.

Mr. Schlefer, a research associate at Harvard Business School, is a political scientist by training, with an undergraduate degree in math and a long-standing engagement with economics.

Two days after the Madrid bombing, Mr Cabrera fulfilled a long-standing engagement to speak in Grenoble at a conference celebrating the 20th birthday of the Grenoble Ecole de Management.

It was awkward, for Huhne had a long-standing engagement – to give a speech at a Liberal Democrat dinner on the Isle of Wight to an audience that would include key representatives of the island's renewable energy industry.

I had a long-standing engagement in Gordon's Wine Bar that Thursday with friends from the Aberdeen journalist strike of 1989, and phoned the closest of them, Duncan Macpherson.

Such practices testify to a long-standing engagement with the quantitative, spatial and procedural systems that structure daily life, and his home and studio in Captiva were the center of this material commitment.

Ending with the question of why Husserl did not take the "linguistic turn, " a final essay included here marks the only article-length discussion of Husserl Parsons has ever written, despite a long-standing engagement with this philosopher.