He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.
Engagement Quotes (93 Quotes)
A great book-group book is more than just a great book. For (this list), we sought out 25 titles that encourage engagement, discussion and debate - though we certainly hope there's no significant bloodshed.
In a telephone interview, Mr. Woodward said he had apologized to Mr. Downie for not disclosing his own part in such a long-running story long ago and said he had kept a deliberately low profile to protect his sources. The terms of engagement change when a reporter and reporters are being subpoenaed, agreeing to testify, being forced to testify, being jailed, ... That's the new element in this. And what it did, it caused me to become even more secretive about sources, and to protect them. I couldn't do my job if I couldn't protect them. And to really make sure that I don't become part of this process, but not to be less aggressive in reporting the news.
So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.
Shooting on board an airplane requires different, what are called, rules of engagement close-quarter battle. And that's something that you don't wake up and learn in just two or three days.
When John Kerry first spoke to the issue of terrorism, you'll probably recall he said I don't like to use the word war on terrorism, it's more of an engagement.
The guy threatened to stab her with a pair of scissors. That's pretty violent. Thankfully, she gave up the wedding ring, gave up the engagement ring. I know it's a tough thing to do, but it's a better outcome than if she had tried to fight.
I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
I think Washington is assessing now what the best time would be for stepped up engagement. But they'll make that decision in Washington.
There is no military planning for Iraq, even if this country presents a real problem for international security, ... We have no room for a new engagement.
Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.
Superstitious Mathilde (Tautou) refuses to believe the news that her fiance, Manech (Gaspard Ulliel), died during the war and sets out to find him in A Very Long Engagement. ... the story is so complicated ... even we were lost at times.
If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it.
This is an enemy that cannot defeat us militarily, and in engagement after engagement we see the enemy breaking off, running away,
approached at a high rate of speed and then conducted activity that in itself was suspicious. There were individuals hanging outside with what looked to be a weapon. It stopped and immediately put itself in reverse. Again suspicious activity. Our soldiers on the scene used established rules of engagement and all the training received ... (and they) decided that it was appropriate to engage that particular car. And as a result of that the driver was indeed killed and the passenger was hurt by shards of glass.
We have to start from the facts and the place to get those facts is the House Intelligence Committee. This is the beginning of a series of questions and engagement.
At the same time, ... whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease, or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong, and the engagement of all.
believes U.S. engagement and leadership in this process is very important but does not feel that withholding dues is a productive route to achieving reform and indeed that it could jeopardize the outcome of the September summit.
I've heard people say this country wasn't at war. I want to tell you, Mr. Chairman ... we conducted ourselves at war ... We did the best we could under the law and with the resources provided and under our defined rules of engagement.
I disagree with Teddy Kennedy, ... He was the only person to actually cancel an engagement. I think that was ill-advised. I think we will work again, because he has played a pivotal role in all of this process.
Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish.
It's not just a matter of meeting. It's a matter of engagement, of dialogue, of discussion, of discourse, of listening, and Sinn Fein is in a proactive listening mode.
Josh has served his country with honor and distinction in uniform, and he did a good job, a fantastic job, ... If Sept. 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we simply have to engage more with the Arab media. Josh clearly did a good job of engagement with their media.
What is most frustrating about U. S. protectionism is that it protects no one, ... Rather than encouraging engagement, it allows an inefficient U. S. lumber industry to turn its back on a rapidly changing global marketplace. Protectionism removes the impetus for industry to invest, improve, adapt and be globally competitive.
Civic engagement is very important. We all live here together and we need to look out for one another.
Whatever the council decides on actions it wishes to take, they have to involve some kind of engagement of Iraq. You cannot put in place a system unless you talk to the people who have the system in place.
I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.
The war against tobacco won't be won in one engagement, ... This is but one battle. This is a realistic solution to our lawsuits. We couldn't overreach for unachievable goals. The status quo can't be allowed to persist.
Everyone agrees that the (NATO troops) will need more robust rules of engagement, ... It is crystal-clear that no single ally will send soldiers (into southern Afghanistan) with their hands tied behind their backs.
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.
This Washington is an alternative vision of what the US-China relationship can be. Here we have a state establishment that is almost 100 percent behind encouraging engagement, and a perception that things are moving well on both sides.
As a pretext for military engagement, genocide carried out by Serbs will be made up... by making it appear a genocide was carried out, an anathema will be placed on the heads of Serbs and measures will be carried out,
Engagement is one of the most important and challenging issues facing our clients, and one of the most talked about concepts in the industry today. Everyone wants to better understand how effectively messages are received and how program environment impacts the process. This project will provide new insights into the critical links between the programs and commercials.
If you look back at lessons learned over the last several years, there are arguments that could be made that there were situations where quality may have suffered because the engagement partner was compensated for the wrong things - not necessarily for the quality of their work, but because of new business they brought in, how happy they kept the client, and so on.
It is the beginning of a dialogue, but of course, that dialogue cannot get under way until violence is brought down, brought significantly down, ... The United States continues to deplore violence and terrorist action in every manner that we see it, and I just wanted the foreign minister to know of our continued engagement.
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering.
I was immediately struck by her warm and welcoming personality. Regardless of social status, she treated everyone with equal engagement.
As far as this process of engagement is concerned... there had been back-channel contacts for decades, and now a lot started appearing in the newspapers as well.... But we felt that the time has come that we must go public.
You think about the lack of engagement, the high dropout rate, the low college-going rate - something had to happen.
FFI are very good on law enforcement. WWF is very weak on that. Both are very good on rehabilitation. Our strength is in habitat management and corporate engagement.
Yahoo has a strong track record of focusing and delivering on some of the biggest opportunities on the Internet. In 2005, Yahoo continued to achieve significant results by providing some of the most innovative services to our hundreds of millions of consumers and deepening both our global reach and user engagement. As we look ahead, we will continue to focus on creating the best consumer experience, finding new ways to engage our audience and delivering the best value for our advertisers.
For young technology enthusiasts, involvement might not mean attending meetings in school gymnasiums or sitting around campfires. Their social or civic engagement may take place in online communities in the glow of their home computer screens.
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
Our story is unique. Our engagement is unique. Our ring is unique. So our wedding should reflect us.
We are very proud to see our work recognized by Gartner and confirmed by our clients. We believe our superior performance levels, dedication to innovation and the quality of staff we bring to each client engagement is what has positioned us in the Leaders quadrant for this industry.
However, if you backtrack to the point of why I did this, I did this in accordance with the rules of engagement and the command-control structure that I was working under.
The dependency of organizations on the engagement and productivity of its workforce makes attention to human capital during organizational change a critical priority.
She was, without doubt, a prime minister who changed the rules of engagement in our political debate,
Keating understood the power of tradition yet he loved to break the rules and create a new orthodoxy. That's what he did as treasurer saying, in effect, that Labor runs a market model with equity, and it worked. When he became PM, he tried to construct a new set of Labor beliefs based on Asian engagement, reconciliation and the republic. For Keating, these weren't just policies they were the new Labor template handed down from the mount. The trouble, of course, was his inability to convert a lot of the public.