The usual engagement-party small talk about wedding details, though, was strained.
Perhaps that is because so many of its leaders are from a wealthy social elite, which does not have the usual sustained engagement with public services.
The advertisements, which will go out on channels 4 and Five but only after 11pm, feature a man proposing to a woman, substituting the usual diamond engagement ring in the jewellery box with its vibrating ring.
In the Revierderby, however, the usual rules of engagement don't apply.
Her eye-opening, nail-biting reconstruction of well-rehearsed events turns war movie cliches on their head, but this depressingly formulaic back-slapping plodathon follows all the usual rules of engagement to the letter: macho military posturing – check; unfaithful servicemen's wives – check; blah blah blah.
Consequently they went a step further than is usual during community engagement exercises for NHRC studies and organised meetings with women's groups to discuss the MalariaGEN study with them.
The baseline assessment also includes date of birth, sex, body mass index, ethnicity, an assessment of pre-injury abilities including usual levels of mobility, engagement in sporting activity, usual occupation and employment (including hours worked and type of work undertaken) and completion of the baseline version of the outcome questionnaires.
Demanding absolute excellence on an unchanging universal numerical scale is not, after all, our usual measure of sensual engagement.
"It can require an enormous ego to lead men to their deaths," Thomas writes, arguing that Jones's willingness to ignore the usual rules of naval engagement in the 18th century and to continue to fight despite appalling losses of human life was "a harbinger of the concept, all too familiar in modern times, of total war".
