The poem is surely engaged in a dialogue with "Digging", the opening poem of Heaney's first volume, Death of a Naturalist (1966).
Some of the group's members have surely engaged in crude, provocative tactics, but let's have a reality check: the group exists because of widespread crimes and a persistent cover-up in the church, because child after child was raped and priest after priest evaded accountability.
The second, a process every attendee surely engaged in as they departed the convening, was applying the notion of unreasonable ambition to their causes and commitments.
But just to be sure that Taiwan stays in line, the meeting will surely engage in another of its annual rituals, a hefty increase in military spending.
And it will almost surely engage in other joint actions in the future, when the two countries' broad national interests, and temporary political cycles, more closely coincide, as they usually do.
That majority works neither for nor with (and certainly doesn't lead) large, publicly traded corporations, yet they surely engage in business.
While his selected career might not be well regarded in a school setting focused on higher education, surely engaging Lachlan in his passions and talents might give him the best opportunity to become an artist whatever the form and function.
In the history of publishing, book writers and readers surely have engaged in as much mendacity, manipulation, triviality, confusion, and wasted time — as a proportion of the whole endeavor — as bloggers and tweeters do today.
This being China, the Times will, surely, be engaged in a constant battle going forward – even, perhaps, a confrontation that defines the sides in some new international press battle.
For example, a push to create a more diverse workplace surely involves engaging with sections of society which are under-represented in the employee base.
Ahmed Said, my driver and guide, wrestled the wheel like a man engaged, surely and calmly, in a struggle to the death.
