| Such engagements are not to be avoided, but rather treated as goads to creative thought and practice. |
| The trial threatened to, and in the event did, unmask a tangled web of conflicting engagements between government departments. |
| But in seeing such engagements as determining our future development, they are way off the mark. |
| The race meeting is one of the few engagements, outside of the Windsor Wives' beetle drive, which the Queen actively enjoys. |
| The Queen's life is ruled by events and engagements, protocol and tradition. |
| She is doing a little royal work and doing it well, but will not take on a full-time round of royal engagements. |
