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"Since I couldn't find the right engagement ring, " he said, "this will have to do, " and he firmly stamped my hand.

Engagement in a life of tiddlywinks does not rise to the level of a meaningful life, no matter how gripped one might be by the game.

we seek to build upon a strong tradition of engagement by presidents and secretaries of state of both parties across many decades.

To shake off the question he began to talk of their own plans, their future, and Mrs. Welland's insistence on a long engagement.

Suppose it was the news of his engagement he had intended to tell her!

Note: The following easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions were tested at a partner's site during a skill transfer engagement.

Urmat said he paid two sheep and a horse to his wife's family on his engagement, which were then sold to provide money for the celebration.

At any given point during these times, my life might have looked seriously unbalanced. I would call it something else. . . full engagement.

Their engagement was to be a secret but the ring on her finger let the cat out of the ba g.

Were this an ongoing ruse, we would not be able to explain this to you due to the Rules of Engagement.

It was the beginning of my deep engagement in the long, emotional, complicated search for peace in Northern Ireland.

U. S. officials said the move culminates months of growing diplomatic engagement between the U. S. and Syria.

Although the two are calling it a "friendship ring, " buzz[2] is building that it is, in fact, an engagement ring.

The Bank Group's new strategy for engagement with IBRD partners contains a range of proposals designed to help us meet their expectations.

A. Jim Nachtwey's image made me realize that I needed to have some sort of intellectual engagement with my pictures.

At the time, she said it would mean a lengthy engagement because no wedding date had been discussed.

Emily desperately searched all over the place for her lost engagement ring. In her words, she has left no stone unturned in her house.

It's very nice of you to ask, but I have a previous engagement that evening, so I'm afraid I won't is able to come.

But the big imponderable is how much appetite there is on both sides of the Atlantic for real diplomatic engagement.

The result of that extensive review was to launch a policy of pragmatic engagement with Burma's leadership.

Jane became ambivalent about her engagement to Tom as she realized she still cared so much about Mike.

The engagement track was set out in May 2008 at a meeting I chaired in London. We all 6 countries made a very clear offer to Iran.

He said the 2006 Iraq Study Group's recommendation for more engagement with Iran has not been implemented.

We've found that awareness is often higher with non-contextually targeted ads, but engagement and recall is higher with contextual ads.

Obama said the third part of the U. S. strategy is comprehensive American engagement across the region.

"Senior leaders from both sides will need to talk further about this . . . That would be a second phase of our engagement, " she said.

Aw, let the engagement go. Come on. I can get rid of him. I want to have a good talk with you.

she wrote to him and told him that she hated to be kept waiting and returned the engagement ring to the guy.

Luckily for her mother, an engagement was swiftly drummed up and political disaster averted, but it was a close run thing.

Lying messengers were to be dispatched into every quarter of the city with apologies for your breach of engagement.

Photography in interactive media is often a trigger for engagement and interaction.

She did, however, agree to meet Senator Webb, suggesting she sees some merit in the American's new policy of engagement with her jailors.

We do not know the answer, and the US, quite sensibly, is combining a policy of engagement with one of hedging.

Fischer revealed that she doesn't wear her multi-faceted diamond engagement ring to work -- for fear that it'll get stolen from her trailer.

And yet the two admired each other more than they admired any other living poets and corresponded with an unusual seriousness of engagement.

Culture must be monitored to understand the health and engagement of your organization.

Conversely, it is considered bad luck for a single woman to wear a ring on her engagement finger as it might curse her to be single forever.

The United States has made it a focus of our engagement abroad to help people to feed themselves.

Q: There has been a bit of talk that engagement hasn't worked, that we need to focus more on sanctions, on punishments.

China came out of its shell three decades ago due to vigorous engagement with, not lectures from, Washington and Brussels.

The engagement tends to be run by China specialists in the state department and the hedge tends to be run out of the Pentagon.

So wherever they require the support of the military, say by fire or physical engagement, the military responds to that, " he said. "

Today, gay bars routinely make local bar rags and gay newspapers available, but that tends to be the extent of their engagement.

While I certainly hoped that this would lead me to a speaking engagement, I did not expect it to happen so quickly.

It was supposed to be a secret and a surprise, and a man's got a right to keep his own engagement quiet, hasn't he?

she know that her mother can't allow her to accept such an informal ring, she keeps the engagement to herself, and only wear it on work.

It is often very difficult to establish this sort dynamic engagement or coupling to someone over a cell phone.

One note of caution: When a company's engagement through services places people in countries they do not know, special care must be taken.

The party was still to be held, but it was an engagement party instead of a birthday party.

1920s: Manufacturers and retail jewelers try to launch the concept of men's engagement rings, which sinks like a lead balloon.

His mother did not approve, and to please her, he ended his engagement.

We were delighted to hear about your engagement to Lee Fang. We wish you and your groom a long and happy marriage life.

This demonstrates engagement and openness, whether a couple is in a distressed relationship or wants to make a strong marriage even better.

The company found that the question led to all sorts of engagement, helping its fan base grow at a rate of 1000 people per week.

My best memories of him were from his episodic attempts at engagement.

They want to know, she said, if the United States will cede its global leadership role by restricting engagement with the United Nations.

The customer engagement process of a data warehouse solution is similar to that of other IT solutions in some ways.

He would be one of the few Jedi to return unscathed from that first engagement. . . at least physically.

Nancy: Well Kate rang me just now to say that George had just taken her to Zemmany's to choose an engagement ring.

The Somme affair, destined to be known as the Great F--k Up, was the largest engagement fought since the beginning of civilization.

I refuse to back out of an engagement. It has always been very important for me to keep my word.

I gave you credit for more wisdom than to allow yourself to be inveigled into an engagement with a woman considerably older than yourself.

Yes; and I told him we should not be able to keep our engagement. That is all settled.

The news of the couple's engagement sparked controversy, as Ethel was an heiress to one of the nation's prominent Republican families.

Economic engagement, she added, is "a very important aspect of our relationship with China, but it's not the only aspect our relationship. "

The engagement which ought to have kept her from joining in the former attempt would make it impossible for her to accompany them now.

Generate a sense of belonging among the alumni body aiming at expansive and sustained engagement of alumni in the affairs of the University.

THERE WAS NO formal betrothal and no announcement was made of the engagement of Bolkonsky and Natasha; Prince Andrey insisted upon that.

The next month, Mr. Isaacson writes, he gave her a diamond engagement ring, and she moved back in.

But the respect of deliberation and engagement seems to me a more adequate, more suitable ideal for a pluralist society.

The pinions may be configured for engagement with the pair of side gears and each of the pinions may have a tooth with a second tooth flank.

The setting is an engagement party where Annie, the maid of honour for her childhood friend Lillian, has been asked to make a speech.

The general tried to avoid an engagement with the enemy.

Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's late mother, persuades her to break the engagement.

I would like to go with you, but I have had a previous engagement.

He has continued to pursue a policy of engagement with a terrorist-sponsored regime, which is just not the direction we need to go.

Miss Smith, please make an engagement for me with the bank manager.

I must tell you how pleased I was to hear of your engagement, and hasten you my earnest congratulations.

You know as well as I do that Ashley's engagement is going to be announced tonight.

As the core of the reform of college personnel institution, engagement system is always concerned by the college technical personnel.

Earlier this year the Prince, who works at RAF Valley in Anglesey, revealed how he gave Kate his mother's blue sapphire engagement ring.

And he says rules of engagement also make it a legal issue.

Before we start, let's back it up a bit . . . if you recall, we posted Wildflowers Photography, Pixar's Up Inspired Engagement Shoot.

She knew her mother wouldn't approve of such an informal ring, so Alma kept the engagement secret and only wore the ring to and from work.

One of the key architects of that engagement is the newly-appointed U. S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker.

Sometimes simply flying overhead is enough to make the enemy disperse and allow the engagement to end.

Forrester Research analyst Augie Ray said the new messaging service will help Facebook in its quest for user-engagement.

At least one of the inner piece and the outer piece has a male portion preferably having a male engagement device thereon.

It's very kind of you to invite me, but I've got a previous engagement.

The rules of engagement for the group phase of the competition read like the instruction manual for a space shuttle.

He had even yielded to her wish for a long engagement, since she had found the one disarming answer to his plea for haste.

Quite often, companies that fail to live up to these requirements do so out of ignorance about the rules of engagement.

Others argue that its growth is an opportunity for the U. S. economy and that Washington should manage this rising power through engagement.

The two continued to date for the next three years, and in November 2010, made history when they announced their engagement.

The former often have supportive parents, wider social networks, university degrees and a greater sense of civic engagement.

Looks like just a month after Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr confirmed their engagement, they walked down the aisle.

She had been perturbed by the premature announcement of his engagement.

If you think in terms of engagement, rather than attention, you'reunlikely to make this mistake.

in addition, the Eastern superpower has been upping its spending in Africa far above the engagement of any other country.

Gwyneth Paltrow was just at the beginning of her career when she and Brad Pitt announced their engagement in 1993.

Turns out, he had spent a ton of money getting a chocolatier to put an engagement ring inside the candy that I just destroyed.

If it is the Islamic world , the US should stop intruding into Russia's geopolitical space and work out a long- term engagement with China .

It is a sign that she has no longer the regard for him, Is their engagement safe and suitable?

Miliband said the response by the European Union and NATO should be hard-headed engagement.

In one night engagement, the Houthis are said to have tied torches to a dozen goats and herded them into range of a Yemeni army platoon.

Over the next five years DFID will undertake constructive engagement and dialogue with China on a range of international development issues.

Hearty congratulations on your engagement. Hoping you will have nothing but joy and happiness in your life together .

This degree of online engagement can be awkward for authorities used to a comfortable buffer from public opinion.

As with Mr Brown, this three-way relationship is at the heart of Britain's European engagement.

At the point of award, the winner will need to sign an a contract detailing the terms of this engagement.

Before he reached the hussars, several adjutants met him with news of the successful issue of the engagement.

that's very kind of him. I'm sorry, but I have an engagement that evening.

Since the engagement, my fiance has been a little nervous.

Later, her spokesman, Ian C. Kelly, was asked about the reported engagement but said it would be inappropriate for him to comment.

He added that it was important to Mr. Obama that she welcome this 'deeper engagement by the U. S. '

First, the Bank facilitates dialogue and engagement among various development stakeholders.

You know all those lies and schemes I mentioned? Emily and Daniel still have a pretty epic engagement celebration in spite of that.

However, the engagement that we've started with the Belarusians has produced some results, " he said. "

When they were picking out engagement rings in a jewelry store, Mr. Toba recalled, a clerk asked if he was shopping for his daughter.

When my daughter announced her engagement to her French boyfriend, we were a little surprised.

In such dangerous times it is all the more urgent for the west and Russia to devise new rules of engagement.

He gave the Young Victoria actress a dazzling round-cut diamond engagement ring worthy of royalty, and designed by Neil Lane.

"The point of engagement . . . is to try to change the other side's view of its own self-interest, " Bosworth said.

We consider the above is quite reliable for such an engagement as you mention.

When Felipe, 35, interrupted her during a press conference to announce their engagement, she grabbed his ARM and said, "Let me finish! "

Others alerted me that they were receiving by mail an indecently doctored photo taken of my daughter during her engagement party.

We all rejoice with you on the occasion of your engagement and wish you both a lifetime of happiness .

Mr Berlusconi does not appear to have let his second marriage get in the way of his engagement announcement.

Employers could also try to better understand why women lose engagement at work mid-career, he said.

The employment, engagement or work on board a ship of any person under the age of 16 shall be prohibited .

But engagement with the outside world now looks near the bottom of its priorities.

Prince William gave his intended bride Diana's engagement ring. He wanted his mother to have a part in the day, he said.

Organizations need to have online strategies that follow-up initial interest with real engagement over the long term.

Formal proposal to YangGuo can, and said two people can hope at the end of the month to go back to hangzhou engagement! ! ! ! !

Even Mrs. Archer, who seldom unduly pleased with human events had been altogether glad of her son' s engagement.

Prince William presented Middleton with his mother's blue sapphire and diamond engagement ring.

and I told him we should not be able to keep our engagement.

That kind of "engagement , " as publishers are fond of saying, suggests that Newsweek isn't just a pile of dead trees .

In Western tradition, an engagement ring is a ring worn by a woman indicating her engagement to be married.

It all begins with engagement. Traditionally, a young man asks the father of his sweetheart for permission to marry her.

Getting engaged can be a triumph, and if he's the wrong guy, the high from the attention of the engagement can minimize that fact.

Obama laid plain the contours of a balancing strategy to deal with a rising China, tempered by renewed efforts at engagement.

He did not even allude to his brother's engagement to Mary.

That's what you owe me for violating engagement. Do you know how embarrassing it?

According to a Fairchild Bridal Group Study, more than a third of couples buying diamond engagement rings spend at least two months' salary.

Since 1983, Les Paul had a regular engagement one-night-a -week at a New York City nightclub.

I regret to say (that) I have a previous engagement that evening. However, thank you FOR thinking of me.

We were fortunate on this engagement to have management support and insight in picking projects still in their formative stage.

Engagement of countries in negotiations for a new framework was "a big step, " he said.

So far in international, student engagement is considered as a convincing "processing" index that measure the quality of higher education.

There's nothing tame about a battlefield of any era, and hand-to-hand fighting was still a major part of any engagement.

And I remember with great fondness the trip that my husband and I and our daughter took to China as part of that intense engagement.

We are growing up to be the evaluable company in customers' satisfaction, financial performance and employee engagement.

There was little or no infra-structural support for visual art in terms of education, opportunities for exhibition or critical engagement.

Please accept my sincerest apologies since, due to a previous engagement, I will not be able to join you.

Still, that group appeared to be inching toward engagement with the regime.

"When I first came to London, " said he, "I secured an engagement at one of your public institutions. "

After many years of virtually no contact, we have had three decades of intense engagement.

It is so thoughtful of you to ask me, but unfortunately I have a rather important previous engagement on that day.

If US engagement is the precondition for ending sanctions and energising the Burmese economy, many would see that as a price worth paying.

He was known for his "sunshine policy" of pursuing engagement with North Korea, which said it would send a delegation to his funeral.

Many of these new media require new definitions - among the buzzwords heard often were engagement, conversation, buzz and accountability.

The Army's core competency is not long-range engagement; it is killing or capturing the enemy up close and personal.

You can expect to be involved in every phase of a consulting engagement, from pre-proposal research through final implementation.

Social responsibility and community engagement is one of the main focuses for Marriott hotels in Shanghai and Suzhou.

During the 1990 "s, however, the system deteriorated due to overall neglect, international sanctions and Iraq" s engagement in two wars.

In a high-engagement group, the ownership of the group is not limited to the hierarchical leader or a few people at the top.

Foster and Usher announced their engagement earlier this year, and later, that she was expecting his first child.

Their arrival two days later marked the end of eight years of US military engagement in Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Choosing an engagement ring does not strike me as the kind of thing I need to do right. . . now.

The cooperative engagement capability (CEC) system is one of the earliest network centric warfare (NCW) systems used by American navy.

Next in line for this sort of treatment is "employee engagement" .

So attached was he to his own daughter that he raged against her engagement as an act of treachery.

Okay, it might not be an engagement ring, but it's a ruby in the shape of a heart on the finger traditionally reserved for engagement rings.

Even lesbians, while watching videos of men, "reported less engagement than the[blood-flow monitors] recorded. "

Unfortunately, during the course of this engagement, he would himself be shot down by a third MiG fighter.

There were times during the war, especially after a major engagement, when he had often thought about these simple sounds.

The company should conduct open interior engagement. The evaluation result should be open to realize fair competition.

He made a notation on his engagement calendar.

Long standing and public as was the engagement, her happiness must not make sacrifices to it.

make his own arrangement for the engagement of all staff and labour, local or other, and for their payment, housing, feeding and transport.

Also, it was tacitly understood that it was to be a long engagement.

Beijing senses that US re-engagement with Asia is code for trying to contain China.

And we believe that the best way to help entrench those changes and see them go further is by an active engagement.

I have an engagement for tonight, but I will try to get out of it.

So it was no shock to the Norwegian royals when Princess Martha, 32, announced her engagement to former playboy Behn, an author.

Sometimes the vibration causes the transmission out of engagement and leads to the drivers to be fidgety and tired.

Out of this sum, however, it has allocated a mere US$1. 5 million over the five years for GM risk evaluation and public engagement.

The second day is a graduation ceremony, be also me with peach engagement brokenhearted of the day.

Replicas of her engagement dress sold off the racks of British clothing stores in under an hour.

It was during a June cycling trip to the islands that the couple decided to get married and bought engagement rings.

He also suggested that Beijing had not yet learnt that, with increasing wealth at home, came the need for greater international engagement.

" Nevertheless, a " strong majority " of Americans still " prefer to undertake friendly cooperation and engagement with China.

Q(4) : In respect of Appendix A of the Engagement Document, what other types of WQOs or parameters should be considered in the next stage ?

When that did not happen bombs were dropped and that ended the engagement.

By the end of the new strategy it is expected that this engagement and dialogue will then be the main area of business for DFID in China .

It was here, 37years ago, that the Shanghai Communique opened the door to anew chapter of engagement between our*s and among our people.

growing older and simpler , i ' ve looked out . slowly , i ' m learning - not always successfully - the beauty of engagement with the world.

Credit may BE advised to a BEneficiary through another bank(the "Advising bank" ) without engagement on the part of the Advising bank.

However, these rules of engagement are often ignored and for people choosing to relocate to a coast, well, you're a newbie.

I can't go with you to the concert because of a previous engagement.

Constructive Disengagement - Full engagement isusing all of your resources and can only be maintained for a shortburst.

That's pretty vague, so the actual terms and rules of engagement are set up in the resolution that authorizes any specific no-fly zone.

Toward the end of any troubleshooting engagement, I am inevitably asked: What could we have done to prevent this?

In the United States, it is traditional for a man to give the woman he plans to marry a diamond engagement ring.

but I do not think I can put off my engagement, because it is the only evening for some time which will at once suit her and myself.

In such a background, the concern from business sectors and academic research communities about employee engagement is growing.

Chandler: Now, Monica, you know that's not how you look for an engagement ring in a lasagne. . .

It was an approach that defined my career until the government changed the rules of engagement and altered the capital market construct.

For her engagement with Charles, Camilla wore an elegant yellow gown with lace detail.

First, they want the new administration to explicitly commit itself to continued engagement in Europe, both in NATO and with the EU.

A call to a cell phone placed at a prearranged time to give the person being called an excuse to end a date or other social engagement.

State Department officials say they do not oppose engagement with Iran by current Security Council member countries Turkey and Brazil.

In general, Alexander said, he is reviewing the complex nuances of the rules of engagement.

This cult of fun is driven by three of the most popular management fades of the moment: empowerment, engagement and creativity.

The United States also remains strongly committed to robust multilateral engagement across the UN system.

I've found that this has really helped build customer engagement and link click-through rates.

During the period of her engagement a young lady even of the most slender pretensions counts upon more bouquets than at other times.

Engagements can be set-up to allow client based surveys with IBM hosting the tool and providing access ids.

The past, the operator can only experience their own sense of engagement, so the operator's proficiency in high demand.

Did this mean he would press for a rapid end to hostilities or was he preparing for engagement lasting for years to come?

Although it was only a short engagement, a lot of men were killed or wounded.

The person said the engagement of HSBC was preliminary and didn't mean the Chinese company has decided to bid.

In addition, the long travel of the hook provides increased engagement of the sheet metal when clamping in an oval slot. more. . .

And presidential candidates in both parties should make clear that engagement with Africa will be an enduring priority of the United States.

This "encourages engagement and participation, " the company declares.

The male engagement device and the female engagement device are configured to be releasably coupled to one another.

The breadth of our engagement will be on full display next week when President Obama welcomes President Hu to the White House.

"Allies agreed on what I would qualify as a conditional and graduated re-engagement, " he told reporters.

Myth No. 2: China and India's engagement with Africa is all about natural resources.

Was it not that wish which had hastened the announcement of their engagement.

The World Bank continues to build on a strong history of engagement in the roads sector and is increasingly engaging in urban transport.

It was an engagement gift from Miss Taylor to producer Michael Todd, who was her third husband.

Tom wants to break off his engagement to her. Then I tried to calm her down.

Proactive stakeholder engagement, including with staff is also viewed as a means of averting compliance issues.

The engagement ring has long been one of the most potent status symbols a woman can wear.

To be encyclopedic In target selection, the rule of engagement must be considered.

Digital printing has no version, no pressure, and the advantages of engagement.

Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with oneself.

But as I was playing 3rd World Farmer, it occurred to me that my level of actual engagement with Heifer and its cause is quite low.

If it gave to announce, the engagement to marry of Yi immediately could break, but my oneself can't be connected the influence for taking.

I am not averse to all things French, and indeed wear a French version of the Wellington boot, but I had a prior engagement.

Without full and sustained business engagement, these projects often do not yield anticipated benefits.

The company account mixes in the proper amount of user engagement by polling their followers on their favorite foods.

This engagement meant operating in partnership with the US, as the "US continues to be an overwhelming force for good in the world" .

I make the sponsor use a chicken the rope Fu is in the hidden, engagement at our lo bead son of time, come to a few Hais call.

It suddenly came into my head that I had an engagement today.

eg. He asked her if she wished to break off their engagement; but she denied this.

The door is open to a better future for Iran, but the process of engagement cannot be open-ended.

Their engagement was to be announced at a barbe-cue held at the Wilkes' home.