We check our email while we're engaged in a complex task that requires our full concentration.
While we're engaged in battle, it arguably would be irresponsible to give Iraqis and Afghans reasons to support those who are attempting to kill our troops every day.
In a passage studded with asterisks marking redactions from the full report, it says the foreign secretary, William Hague, told the ISC: "We don't believe that while we are engaged in this process of sanctions and negotiations and a twin-track policy it would be right to launch a military strike on Iran and we've said that very clearly to the Israelis".
The Surgeon General expressed quite the opposite opinion, stating, "Warning flags are still flying in the communicable-disease field," and adding, "While we are engaged in taking on new duties and viewing broader horizons, we cannot and must not lose sight of our traditional program responsibilities".
While we are engaged in taking on new duties... we cannot and must not lose sight of our traditional program responsibilities [emphasis added].' " I used to buy the line that today's newspaper will be used to wrap fish tonight and will be forgotten tomorrow.
I see it as one more example of what has become transparent since President Bush signed into law his large tax cuts: the Bush administration and many Republicans are intent on shifting the tax burden toward the lower and middle classes, even while we are engaged in a costly war with no end in sight.
While we are engaged as consultants and partners with a number of institutions around the world, we have so far chosen not to set up another full-fledged Stanford campus, primarily because we were concerned that we could not establish a permanent presence with a cohort of faculty and students whose quality matched that of our home campus.
"While we are engaged as consultants and partners with a number of institutions around the world, we have so far chosen not to set up another full-fledged Stanford campus, primarily because we were concerned that we could not establish a permanent presence with a cohort of faculty and students whose quality matched that of our home campus," he said.
But when asked about the Pentagon budget, Ms. Hartzler, who defeated former Representative Ike Skelton, the longtime Democratic chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said that "now is not the time to talk about defense cuts while we are engaged in two theaters with men and women in harm's way".
In other words, we are always beings "in situation," but the precise mixture of transcendence and facticity that forms any situation remains indeterminable, at least while we are engaged in it.
