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    1. This view emerged from the assumption that women generally do not enjoy sex, and that they only engage in sex to have children


    2. He tried to engage the elderly politician next to him in conversation


    3. She would engage in her most serious conversations while kneeling over him joined


    4. Wrapped as I was in the cotton wool of solitary confinement, unable as I was to express any of my thoughts in concrete form or to engage in conjecture with another rational human being, nonetheless I spent hours imagining faces and clothes and names to accompany the hollow tapping sounds in the night


    5. I tried to engage them in conversation, desperate for them to reveal some snippet of information in an unguarded moment


    6. you engage in any kind of a relationship with them?


    7. The missile program in South Africa can be used to instruct African nations to defend themselves from incoming missiles and engage in defensive battles


    8. By doing this, not only will a competition gain more followers and more interest, it is also going to elicit more people to want to engage in the contest and to post their own submissions, which are going to help you as the business owner in the end


    9. None tried very hard to engage her in conversation at their duskmeal, Desa and Alan tried to figure out where they might be on the out-of-date and not-to-scale map


    10. Alan didn't engage him in debate

    11. She and her dragon, Lady Ursula, promised they would not engage in any fighting


    12. Try to engage


    13. She had come here to accuse her of infidelity, and to get him to engage in infidelity


    14. I would rather not have to engage in relations as often


    15. Only the most inventive and talented of her subjects would be able to engage with her grand-daughter on a mutually fulfilling and intellectual level


    16. Despite his apparently uncaring treatment of her the previous day, Annie still firmly believed that her brother loved her and that he would, in time, learn to engage with the world in a more constructive way now that he was the effective head of the household


    17. Consequently, you will engage in a sort of ―tug of


    18. "I don't engage in homosexual behavior Alan," he said


    19. to engage with her grand-daughter on a mutually fulfilling and


    20. he would, in time, learn to engage with the world in a more

    21. She was trying to engage in a sleepy conversation, but they had consumed so much yaag that it didn’t progress with a lot of purpose


    22. the men on duty, but did not attempt to engage them in conversation;


    23. reluctant to engage in much conversation, although Tom was not sure


    24. safety, barriers would automatically engage shortly before the


    25. 40“At the time of the end the king of the South will engage him in battle,


    26. We have tried to engage their interest in art – but


    27. It would be necessary that almost every man should be a man of business, or engage in some sort of trade


    28. As soon as news arrived of a breach then a century would be dispatched at forced march speed to engage


    29. Eventually, they had to separate, spread out into the Grand Hall along with the Makii, who continued to engage in their own personal vendetta


    30. It’s really important when you launch a product that you engage in testing and

    31. I had skill, but the work did not engage me fully


    32. Nonattachment is a way of living wherein you actively engage in life, but your happiness is not dependent upon the result of what you do


    33. He was not much pleased with the innkeeper’s incessant attempts to be kindly and engage him in conversation


    34. And friendly Corpulus would engage others among the clientele


    35. But due to the changed life styles, most of us do not have to engage in strenuous work


    36. Most of us sit in front of computers all day long or engage in other sedentary works


    37. The meal is served up and Mom and Dad engage the girls in a little conversation by going over the possible agenda for the day


    38. Among the Tartars, even the women have been frequently known to engage in battle


    39. What’s so different now? In any case the ship was due to engage hyperspace within ten minutes


    40. The tenants of the clergy were, like those of the great barons, almost all tenants at will, entirely dependent upon their immediate lords, and, therefore, liable to be called out at pleasure, in order to fight in any quarrel in which the clergy might think proper to engage them

    41. translations (engage or manage) without New


    42. He tried to engage with his wife


    43. She was far too busy arranging time to „work a deal" for Lady Gaga (a muddle-headed entertainer of the transvestite persuasion) to engage in an appearance at Europride, a homosexual-rights festival


    44. It must be asked: Would conservative teachers or District Attorneys engage in the above activities?


    45. A bastard concept that would disarm those attempting to engage in their own defense


    46. Hillary Clinton, presumably not realizing that she"s in completely over her head as Secretary of State, made the following peace-destroying blunder last week: „We believe … that it is in the interests of the United States to engage with all parties that are peaceful and committed to nonviolence, that intend to compete for the Egyptian parliament and presidency


    47. This more liberal administration did not, at least, engage in the heavy-handed restraint of anti-war protests


    48. Not to be confused with Sally Fifth, as it was the command given to the English cavalry to engage the enemy


    49. It was unlikely they would engage in battle against thousands of potentially mad wielders however


    50. He couldn’t allow Tobin’s army to engage the Alit’aren in open warfare














































    1. Continuers prefer to continue with the occupations that kept them engaged in earlier life


    2. ’ He said sadly, ‘What’s worse; she’s started going on about us getting engaged


    3. Rose relates a horrifying tale about the bombs which were dropped … some of her family were killed in Bristol in an air raid aimed at one of the factories … and she was also anxious about Wally as they were engaged by then


    4. ‘Yes, and on top of that, she was engaged to the local GP


    5. The front doors of the van banged shut and I heard the gears whine as the driver engaged first


    6. Artificially inflating demand was not considered an acceptable business practice in this culture, and people did not patronize merchants who engaged in 'push' advertising


    7. He wondered at first what she meant, then knew it was because he hadn't engaged in sex with her


    8. Dorin and her husband, Ayle, make a great fuss of Gilla, exclaiming with joy when they hear she is engaged to Caderl


    9. By trade the father was a labourer, although through a combination of ill luck and regular run ins with the genie of the bottle, he rarely engaged in his professional calling


    10. She even took up golf to while away the hours when her husband was otherwise engaged with lines, reels and lures

    11. I rang your office but the line was engaged so I thought I’d come down here on the off chance


    12. Fragrance is what the heart needs to remain young and the sundry, intermittent associations that Tom engaged in were based on the satisfying of dull need rather than on the delicate perfume of hope and future expectations


    13. Death certificates were signed and lodged with the appropriate authorities, funeral arrangements planned and paid for, paperwork sorted and solicitors engaged to deal with the minutiae of closing down a life


    14. The Hold Stables housed about thirty of the beautiful Hausa, and while Duncan and Tarak engaged in conversation with the stable master, Rayne went to each offering the tubers from their feedbags


    15. Suddenly it burst open as Warriors and Scathers plowed thru the door engaged in a pitched battle


    16. Elmore engaged in enough magic to have a big shot of a fine bourbon appear on the bar in front of him


    17. I don’t know if you’re aware of his history at all, but he was engaged, oh, it must be about ten years ago now, and she was killed in a car accident


    18. She said something about the war we're engaged in as being a war between two different substrates, and they are on a different substrate


    19. bottle, he rarely engaged in his professional calling


    20. husband was otherwise engaged with lines, reels and lures

    21. young and the sundry, intermittent associations that Tom engaged


    22. As soon as they were clear of Earth’s Moon, Ship engaged the hyper-drive; the


    23. They rolled to their sides but remained engaged


    24. Meanwhile he had also observed the curious antics in which Harry engaged during each episode following his great-niece's directions for his accomplishing the otherwise unremarkable chores around the house


    25. At the designated dining hour, Harry dressed nicely and announced to the assembled guests, “If you wish, I shall be most pleased to escort you to your evening's suppers; those of you not otherwise engaged may follow me


    26. This time it was Belle who interrupted, “Forgive me but, this is a matter of 'tradition'? That's what this comes down to? Tradition? Perhaps you have failed to fully appreciate the uniqueness of the situation we are at present engaged


    27. tugged on the levers which engaged the pump itself


    28. Tom was not engaged in the conversations,


    29. Once he had settled for himself their relative personal tastes and positions in society and industry, he listened more attentively to the banter with which the three men were engaged


    30. The others watched as Kaitlyn went to her father's side and engaged him in a silent meeting

    31. While the gentlemen were engaged in acquiring rail tickets, Harry and the Spelman ladies enjoyed a light brunch


    32. Nigel and I looked at a house down here when we were engaged


    33. Harry was nonplussed and his superiors were otherwise too engaged to notice his brief absence


    34. They sent me an additional questionnaire asking all sorts of personal questions – like how often we write? how often we phone?, do you speak English?, what do my parents think of the idea?, when we got engaged?, and would I be willing to live in Hong Kong? I answered all the questions without telling them it was none of their damn business and I resented our privacy being invaded


    35. He wandered around down here and engaged the cooks and potters around this atrium in some conversation about the residents of Kadak's service house


    36. What she was able to learn; both from what Tetloan told her as well as from what he obviously and purposely omitted, was that while Whimly, the travelers and her had been engaged with the demons, Tetloan had been hiding within the forest, watching in safety as the humans were massacred


    37. engaged the services of the young shepherd – who knew


    38. Neither party said a single word, but Adros didn’t doubt they were engaged in a furious telepathic conversation


    39. As during their whole lives they are engaged in plans and projects, they have frequently more acuteness of understanding than the greater part of country gentlemen


    40. friend thought I should stay and keep you engaged till she comes

    41. engaged for some safe seconds


    42. of those who are engaged in activities less


    43. She had freely chosen to follow the more traditional path of her gender by hooking up with a steady boyfriend from her high school days, getting formally engaged and then married to Joe shortly after graduating, their buying a house and car and all the stuff you’re supposed to take possession of when you form a conjugal union, and her bearing three children before she reached the age of thirty


    44. engaged in fierce polemic


    45. A merchant, in the same manner, who is engaged in the foreign trade of consumption, when he collects goods for foreign markets, will always be glad, upon equal or nearly equal profits, to sell as great a part of them at home as he can


    46. Intemperate, he hadn’t engaged mercenaries in the city


    47. You can live a life that is fully engaged with the world, and you can have desires, but you are not addicted to that which you desire


    48. Anytime you are engaged in an activity in which you are fully present, your self-conscious self may recede into the background


    49. The loss of the Portugal trade would, no doubt, have occasioned a considerable embarrassment to the merchants at that time engaged in it, who might not, perhaps, have found out, for a year or two, any other equally advantageous method of employing their capitals; and in this would probably have consisted all the inconveniency which England could have suffered from this notable piece of commercial policy


    50. He could see his heart pumping and his lungs engaged in their steady work














































    1. Lets discuss that as a community who actually engages and practices it, because how many Christians will say there is no more dietary law only to stuff their face with prepackaged garbage and high fructose corn syrup?


    2. Another example is a philanthropist, or ―good deed doer‖, who seeks admiration from his or her fellows; who therefore engages in charitable activities in order to enhance his or her reputation or popular credentials as a reliable advocate of worthy causes


    3. This seems to be happening because during the process, the mind engages the brain in a silent huge update, reconstructing a large amount of data, which are my behaviors


    4. Prior engages in very little reward-seeking behavior


    5. that once the client really engages with the possible solution offered in


    6. “Our femininity then engages in contractions that serve to pump your nectar high into our reproductive tracts


    7. Not every man engages in this kind of introduction


    8. ego, and engages for some years a considerable amount of his time and


    9. When the individual engages with self, the gap between personal, and professional bridge


    10. Once embarked upon, the transformational process automatically and simultaneously engages with several other human dynamics

    11. When the mind engages in repeated negative thoughts and/or actions the only way the body knows how to cope is to bring on depression and/or anxiety trying to protect itself


    12. Every year the Roberto Clemente award is given to the player with outstanding skills on the field who personally engages in work in the community


    13. the Jinns, who are the people that are believed to be led by an evil entity called Iblis, a Satanic individual who engages in self-worship, raising himself to the status of God, therefore creating a false idol, false prophet, and false god out of himself


    14. keep all the commandments of God, for no one that engages in


    15. And all of the activities a mosquito engages in is orchestrated by a brain about the size of the period at the end of this sentence


    16. He engages in


    17. Maybe we’re hoping to find the item that engages our


    18. Another effective motivational strategy is to join a group that engages in some kind of


    19. She is true to herself and stands proud Humble is she as she engages with others She is quite the remarkable young mother Her long dark glowing hair


    20. engages that thing all by himself

    21. The mech engages but the


    22. The words that those who “practice” such things – is that possibly referring to a Christian who engages in adulterous behavior on a regular and frequent basis, with no remorse, and no intentions on confessing this sin out before the Lord for His mercy and forgiveness?


    23. They're able to come into relationship with God in such a way that God engages them and listens to them


    24. She enjoys writing poems, humorous ar-ticles, and engages in other creative endeavors


    25. The expansion of the gas causes the cylinder 8 to move down until the butt tooth coupling 6 engages with the tooth coupling 5 and thus rotates by means of the large-pitch thread the spacer 4 and the shield 12 at 180°


    26. and delving into it with commitment and study engages the mind and becomes


    27. fetters of action if he does not desire its fruits and engages in it selflessly, but without any weakening of his dedication to its performance


    28. and engages in the war with faith, is perfectly liberated from the bond-


    29. achieved yog who engages in the one action that is worthy of doing with


    30. man of action, engages in action just because he knows that it has to be

    31. But it is possible to know this only when, as it was said in the first verse of the chapter, one engages in yog with total resignation to God, and never before this


    32. the worshipper when he engages in the task of single-minded contem-


    33. earnest devotee engages in the task of worship in association with a sage


    34. verse 1 of chapter 17, ‘‘What would be the fate of a person who engages


    35. This is why the heart does not say good or bad, but rather engages the day with joy, play and love, whatever the day, for it does not need to earn the praise of good or the condemnation bad – it is


    36. The individual body evolutionarily alters as it engages in, adapts to, and is comformicated by the real and virtual physical distribution of social functions


    37. Taming seems most appropriately used when one of the subject-object-systems is unable to enter into a mutually beneficial cooperative with the other, even, and especially, when one engages one's self-evolution as a subject-686


    38. you tell me about any behaviors that he engages in before he goes to bed?”


    39. Love makes true the events it engages in


    40. Unlike your Miss Cheriton, who gently waves you aside and engages herself without the least difficulty to a duke, Vicki is a marked person, and will be avoided by our careful and calculating young men

    41. He makes mistakes sometimes in the men he engages, just as I used to when I did the engaging, and he had one poor young man as apprentice who very soon, like the first of my three meek gardeners, went mad


    42. Once the tension and self-absorption slip away, the true self engages with others and knows the exhilaration of simply “being”


    43. • Scribd engages very little with their fans on Facebook and response times are very poor


    44. At first, desire appears as attraction and engages the intent of mind


    45. Love does not engage your mind and ego – it engages your very ‘you-ness’, your center, your ‘self’


    46. The resonance of the mantra operates as a total energy system that engages with all levels of an individual’s being


    47. Whatever is the most difficult and the most challenging for you… whatever you fear most, whatever is the most painful and demanding, whatever engages all of your human potential, all of your creativity, all of your love, courage, and honesty: that is the healing path you should take


    48. Transformative learning engages us in the questioning of unquestioned meaning perspectives


    49. One of the ideas that has helped me feel compassion universally and unconditionally came when I recognized that anyone who does anything unpleasant to me engages in that sort of behavior and much worse within that person


    50. The Self’s desire and will thus engages the brain’s neurotransmitters into action, which send electrical impulses and signals to the muscles, which in turn operate the hand, or any other part of the body, making it behave and operate in any way we wish it to, controlled by the confines of our ‘physical’ ability of course






























    1. Avoid arousing activities before bedtime like working, paying bills, engaging in competitive games or family problem solving


    2. Possibility of engaging in hobbies, preferably those that may result in some tangible output


    3. and engaging Billie Tuke-Hastings, but the direct line of this once numerous family of


    4. He had always met her in company and just missed engaging, somehow, for the whole 9 months of his study term


    5. The boy was a fine specimen, vigorous and young, and engaging in his own sweet and innocent way


    6. She was cheerful, engaging, offering her help with a myriad of things


    7. Engaging in adventurous activity can have the affect of


    8. excitement of engaging in a new activity coupled with the closeness that you gain from spending


    9. After another engaging but ultimately unsuccessful foray into the beating heart of Saturday night, Tom spent a quiet Sunday afternoon lazing in the summer sun in a local park


    10. At the evening meal she was jovial and engaging telling Mistress Sera all about her plans with the young Hausa

    11. Engaging the conscious mind in the process is useful,


    12. The window was open, the sounds of the bullring were distant, the grunts, moans and sighs of others engaging in pleasure was detectable in the still night air


    13. protecting the crossing or engaging in trade with Lyndesfarne


    14. They were in their initial crush and engaging in lots of petting


    15. ' Oh yeah, he knew it was all done with moving floors and glass floors and projectors, but the experience had been very engaging while he was as stoned as he was


    16. Typically, one donned a phase shield if they planned on engaging in a brief, but bloody battle


    17. As for the the hole in the wall, it was to remain open, for they meant to take the battle to the base of the Rift; engaging the enemy with a series of strategic withdrawals


    18. Top 10 lists are engaging


    19. Your headline must attract the attention of the reader with an engaging


    20. As they disappeared, he turned back toward the machine engaging the young DRAFT

    21. As the two Bretons charged back into battle, heading to their respective corners and engaging DRAFTChapter 12 233


    22. Nonattachment, discussed in Chapter 12, is a way of actively engaging in life without your happiness depending upon the result of what you do in life


    23. Unlike my work as an artist, my work in finance and writing has never stopped engaging me fully


    24. students will be engaging in practice with themselves


    25. Prior to engaging in negotiations it is wise to consider one's own "bottom-line"


    26. The Priest had a way of calming someone with just a word, and there was a trust in him that was quite engaging


    27. Engaging in professional talk, Waddell stated what he had witnessed on the banks of the Peiho


    28. It seems to me that being a millionaire"s son, and having elections bought for you while engaging in an endless series of extra-marital affairs, does indeed indicate a lack of class, no matter the wealth of the protagonists


    29. To which I say: Try building a bridge without engaging in linear, logical thinking


    30. There is a wall of separation between church and state, even to the extent of prohibiting students from engaging in silent prayer prior to their high school football games

    31. The third part is about engaging with others


    32. The third factor (of having charisma) is engaging


    33. This is not just about engaging with other people


    34. He was just the opposite, very outgoing and engaging


    35. This is the message Republicans should be sending; rather than engaging in awkward, half-hearted overtures that are oftentimes perceived as transparent and insincere


    36. Engaging in irrational behavior in an environment that has ceased to be rational or ―normal‖ is considered rational whenever such behavioral patterns either conform or comply with the (otherwise) irrational standards of that environment


    37. Many need to step outside their virtual environment and interact more with other children their own age; engaging in recreational activities and ―doing‖ rather than ―watching


    38. otherwise it fulfilled its (dual) purpose of recharging our nutritional batteries while engaging family members in casual mealtime conversations that brought the family (closer) together as a unit


    39. Young boys coming into their own, especially during their formative years, should not be discouraged from engaging in physical activities; that is to say, the type of ―horse play‖ or ―rough housing‖, common among growing boys, that gives vent to their masculinity; that is to say, gender characteristics underlying decidedly masculine attitudes inherent in the male species


    40. An individual should utilize proper discretion (whenever possible) when engaging in (public) conversation; especially when that individual‘s perceived style or manner (of speech) or ―problematical expressions‖ might be ―misinterpreted‖ or considered offensive to certain members of his or her audience

    41. How else does one explain his abysmal record on Immigration, lack of Social Security and Energy reform, reckless spending, expanding deficits (despite enjoying majorities in both Houses of Congress) while engaging the nation in a politically correct war that has clearly lost its momentum?


    42. Were he truly committed to rectifying social ―injustices‖, perhaps he might consider resigning from the newspaper, thereby enabling an equally qualified journalist of color, otherwise prevented from engaging in his or her chosen profession because of ―institutionalized racism‖, to assume his present position as sports writer


    43. This involves engaging in meaningful dialogue without fear of censorship


    44. A small smile and soft but full voice also were disconcertingly warm and engaging, as was the rumbling chuckle of this cuddly gentle giant you felt you could trust with your life


    45. More serious charges of engaging in hostilities and assault on occupation forces had been dropped


    46. Morris’ rather clinical description of the higher primates engaging in sexual intercourse, was the chapter that did it


    47. from engaging in a shouting match


    48. It would appear that indulgences were given to those who had previously engaged in less than holy actions, in order to sanctify them before engaging in the pope’s Holy War of reprisal


    49. Some of these ‘dangerous items’ may be current in our daily life, so they will be constantly engaging your survival system in a totally unnecessary and highly crippling defense process


    50. The movie was engaging enough that the chatter and text messaging during the beginning soon faded












































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    Synonyms for "engage"

    engage absorb engross occupy affiance betroth plight lock mesh operate charter hire lease rent take enlist prosecute pursue wage employ charm captivate bewitch divert retain commission contract take on sign up secure interest attack assault strike fall upon interlace fasten

    "engage" definitions

    carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in


    consume all of one's attention or time


    engage or hire for work


    ask to represent; of legal counsel


    give to in marriage


    get caught


    carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)


    hire for work or assistance


    engage for service under a term of contract


    keep engaged