Sentence examples for were mainly engaged from inspiring English sources

In 1797 he entered the Spanish military forces, which then were mainly engaged in exterminating bandits.

Not too long ago, the amateur sleuths and professional lawmen who police these regional mysteries were mainly engaged in rooting out individuals who threatened the collective good of the community.

Corrie and other ISM activists in Rafah were mainly engaged in trying to obstruct house demolitions being carried out by the IDF, which said the targeted homes were suspected of sheltering militants or concealing the entrances to tunnels dug under the border with Egypt to facilitate the smuggling of weapons and explosives.

Similarly, Lanjouw ([2001]) in a study in rural El Salvador found that the poor were mainly engaged in "last resort" non-farm activities.

For example, the first survey results showed that the language experts were experiencing difficulties with regard to passing on their newly gained expertise to all team members in the setting; they were mainly engaged in working with children individually.

Wilde Sau, conceived by Hans-Joachim Herrmann, was a technique by which the RAF bombers were mainly engaged by single-seat fighter planes, illuminated by searchlights, over the target area.

From the 1950s onward, he was mainly engaged in poetry translation.

Its present population, still predominantly Nupe, is mainly engaged in farming.

From Berkhamsted school, Hertfordshire, Stephen went to Stowe school, Buckinghamshire, and in 1942 was conscripted into the Royal Navy, where he was mainly engaged in anti-submarine warfare in the North Atlantic.

In the post-World War I years she was mainly engaged in legal defense of labour and political agitators and aliens who were threatened with deportation for their political views.

He and his fellow-researchers at Palmer are mainly engaged in studying the effects of the rapid warming on the formation of sea ice, on the phytoplankton and Antarctic krill that depend on the sea ice, and on the Adélie penguins that rely on the sea ice and the krill.