Sentence examples for while engaged on from inspiring English sources

Of the other 15 killed this year, 14 died in crossfire or during combat – nine of them in the Syrian conflict – and one while engaged on a dangerous reporting assignment in Yemen.

But how must Albert Einstein have felt, while engaged on his two weeks of study of orgone properties?

While engaged on this service, Franklin was promoted to be a Commander, and after his return to England in 1822, he obtained the post rank of Captain, and was elected to be a fellow of the Royal Society.

She preferred writing in the mornings, she said, when she was "cold, energetic, candid, and rational" rather than in the evenings when her brain worked "fast but feverishly and with poorer quality". While engaged on a novel she "keeps office hours" – 9 30 to 5 30 – and tries to eschew luncheon appointments until it is finished.

The nagging question is also understandable if we acknowledge that gay men of Rogers' generation (and discretion) often hid their gay sexuality by marrying women and having children, all the while engaging in gay sex on the sly.

While it stays engaged on the legislative side, Virent plans to wind down its own reliance on federal government funding.

While some celebrities engaged on political issues, others were content to glide through the evening unemcumbered.

Child 1 enters and pushes over child 2 for no apparent reason while parent is engaged on the toilet and unable to intervene.

While they are engaged on social media, they spend less time there than their less successful peers -- averaging 1-2 hours each day as compared to 3-4 hours.

While Stephens was engaged on business elsewhere, Catherwood carried out a brief investigation of the stelae at Quiriguá but found them very difficult to draw without a camera lucida due to their great height.

All they had was a commitment that Kassig would remain alive while Cohen was still engaged on the ground.