Sentence examples for standing engagements from inspiring English sources

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

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.

The revelation ends speculation as to Mr Corbyn's whereabouts on Thursday following comments from aides he had "long standing private engagements" and needed some "relaxation time".

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.

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.

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.

After a diversion to play golf, Jedburgh keeps a long-standing engagement as a guest-speaker at a NATO conference on directed energy weapons held at the Gleneagles Hotel.

Their ducktailed-hair bands have a long-standing engagement that night, and the women come decked out in the hottest 1950s fashion.