Sentence examples for was first engaged from inspiring English sources

Luckily, as I was first engaged in this process, the butcher stood patiently holding my pâté aloft.

He went out to Ceylon to learn planting in 1904, and was first engaged on the Hoolankande estate in the Madulkelle district, under Mr. G. W. Hunter Blair.

Of course the night ended well, with a boisterous address from Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer and the roof-blowing finale from Sen. Hillary Clinton, though the crowd's attention was first engaged when Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, Jr. bent the familiar "four more years" line into "four more months," approximately (but not quite) the amount of time left in President Bush's final term.

(This also marked her only film with the man she was first engaged to, actor John Cazale, who had played Fredo in "The Godfather". Tragically, Cazale was dying of bone cancer during production, and his loss soon after would be a bitter blow for Streep).

When we were first engaged, I was advised by friends to nod and stay out of Tara's way.

Hostilities were first engaged on the gleaming facades of Montreuil office park, east of Paris, home to gaming giant Ubisoft and BNP-Paribas bank's IT systems.

Maybe Gurkhas were first engaged as soldiers for hire to the East India Company in 1815, to earn their wage, fight and risk their lives, and then return to their native Nepal.

Assembly of the hexameric complex occurs sequentially: IL-6 is first engaged by IL-6Ralpha and then presented to gp130in the proper geometry to facilitate a cooperative transition into the high-affinity, signaling-competent hexamer.

That has come down from roughly 40m euros per spacecraft when they were first engaged to do the job by the European Commission and the European Space Agency.

Within a game where firms are first engaged in costly research efforts to adopt a lower-cost technology and then compete in a Cournot fashion with homogeneous products, (D'Aspremont and Jacquemin 1988) (henceforth "AJ") show that firms invest more under R&D cooperation than under R&D competition for sufficiently high spillover effects (full competition versus full cooperation).

"I met Grace when she and Ranier were first engaged," said Pilar.