Sentence examples for the initial engagement from inspiring English sources

The soldiers called for air support and the military said that at least 33 people were killed by ground fire in the initial engagement and 6 others by air attacks.

The Labour MP Graham Allen said the escalation represented exactly the kind of mission creep opponents of the initial engagement had feared and suggested MPs be asked again to give their approval.

Too numerous to count are the new works from major composers, involving prominent executants and unfurled with no small fanfare, that subsequently vanish once the final notes of the initial engagement (or engagements) has faded.

In his response to the letter, Senator Franken appears satisfied with the initial engagement, though he also says he intends to take the company up on its offer to be briefed in more detail.

The company has been quietly running in beta for about a month, and while it's too early to disclose user numbers and traction, the initial engagement times the startup is seeing are promising, says Dabir. "For the registered users, the average time on site has been about 25 minutes," he says.

After the initial engagement, Mikawa, fearing Allied carrier strikes against his fleet upon daybreak, decided to withdraw under cover of night rather than attempt to locate and destroy the Allied invasion transports.

It will move out to more theaters if the initial engagements work.

(The initial engagements were presented in Magnascope, a process that allows for supersize images for selected scenes, almost exactly as the Imax-ized blockbusters do today).

This morning's Zeleny-Rutenberg piece made the explicit point that Romney has emerged in stronger-than-expected shape from the initial engagements of the general election.

On 13 May, Vienna fell for the second time in four years, although the war continued since most of the Austrian army had survived the initial engagements in Southern Germany.

A superb organizer and tactician, Baston de Lariboisière rose rapidly through the artillery ranks and reliably directed the artillery park for the initial engagements of the War of the First Coalition in 1793 1794.