Sentence examples for were then engaged from inspiring English sources

Our troops were then engaged, which led to a response, mainly with anti-tank missiles".

Mr. Mugabe's enforcers were then engaged in systematically beating thousands of the opposition's supporters before a June presidential runoff that pitted him against the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

Both were then engaged on their famous works of fantasy, but at that time fantasy was distinctly de trop at Oxford.

And Ms. MacLaine recalled having dinner 40 years ago with her brother, Warren Beatty, and Joan Collins, who were then engaged.

Sanmicheli and Sangallo were then engaged by Pope Clement VII to examine and repair if necessary the fortifications in the northern Papal States.

Mr. Tolstoy had come to see the place where the writer spent nearly three years in the 1850s, living among Cossacks who were then engaged in the struggle to tame the Chechens, and wrote "Childhood," the work that first shot him to fame.

Ms. Plath was then engaged, and the bride wanted to introduce Mr. Kaminski to another woman.

The central bank was then engaged in an intense effort to stem the rise of the franc and protect Swiss exporters.

But, one real estate executive said, city officials were also slow to respond, in part because Mayor Giuliani was then engaged in the race for the Senate.

He was then engaged as co-director with W.S. Van Dyke II to make "White Shadows in the South Seas" from the book By Frederick O'Brien.

She was then engaged by bandleader Glenn Miller for another short stint at the legendary Glen Island Casino, making her first recordings with Miller for the Bluebird label.