Sentence examples for to engage until from inspiring English sources

"If we waited to engage until they had achieved a perfect democracy, my suspicion is that we'd be waiting an awful long time," Obama said of Myanmar.

On the other hand, if we waited to engage until they achieved a perfect democracy, my suspicion is we'd be waiting an awful long time".

They said Mr. McConnell had made it clear that he did not want to engage until the House had voted on Mr. Boehner's bill.

There is no obligation to "engage" until there is a reasonable proposal on the table – and Brito is about 10% short.

A few contacts within the alcohol industry suggest they are interested but do not need to engage until this new invention becomes a threat to their sales.

"On the other hand, if we waited to engage until they had achieved a perfect democracy, my suspicion is we'd be waiting an awful long time.

Obama also made it clear there would be no change in the US refusal to engage with North Korea until Pyongyang demonstrates a tangible commitment to eventual denuclearisation.

Mr Lee's approach was much closer to the "strategic patience" of the Americans ie, hope to engage the North until it agrees to dismantle its nuclear-weapons programmes or the regime collapses.

It was the first profound change in the relationship between fully modern humans and the environment: people evolved into their current form some 200,000 years ago (see human evolution), yet they did not begin to engage in agriculture until about 15,000 10,000 years before the present (bp).

It also called on "all media outlets to refuse to engage him professionally" until he has apologised.

"The idea is to enable them to engage the attackers until help arrives," provincial information minister Mushtaq Ghani said at the time.