The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

A little later the district attorney woke up, emerged from under the couch, looked at his watch, and realized he had an engagement that very hour to address a meeting of the Culture Forum on `` The Civic Spirit of the Southland '', in the Byzantine room of the hotel where his wife, as president of the forum, was to preside.

Engages must be loyal to the concessionaires, and must serve until the term provided in the engagement was ended.

Charlie Marble was back and forth on several occasions, first to confer with Andy on the advisability of cancelling the Las Vegas engagement -- they decided it was wise -- and later to announce that a prominent comedian, also an agency client, had agreed to fill the casino's open date.

And then there was Linda's engagement to Bobbie Evans.

A wedding set for January 1, 1841, was canceled when the two broke off their engagement at Lincoln's initiative.

The only engagement between the rival factions which is told at length is noteworthy, inasmuch as it was preceded by an encounter at Gibeon between twelve chosen men from each side, in which the whole twenty-four seem to have perished ( 2 Samuel 2: 12 ).

In the general engagement which followed, Abner was defeated and put to flight.

However, this situation changed drastically when Alexios ' first son John II Komnenos was born in 1087: Anna's engagement to Constantine was dissolved, and she was moved to the main Palace to live with her mother and grandmother.

The Danish fleet was able to defeat Alfred's fleet which may have been weakened in the previous engagement.

In 1169 the now old Dom Afonso was disabled in an engagement near Badajoz by a fall from his horse, and made prisoner by the soldiers of the king of León, his son-in-law.

With the announcement in 2007 of the engagement of Peter Phillips to Autumn Kelly, a Roman Catholic and a Canadian, discussion about the Act of Settlement was somewhat reinvigorated.

The islands were the scene of the Battle of the Aegates Islands of 241 BC, in which the Carthaginian fleet was defeated by C. Lutatius Catulus ; the engagement ended the First Punic War.

However, Marlborough would have to wait until Eugene was in position before the general engagement could begin.

The Battle of Ramillies (), fought on 23 May 1706, was a major engagement of the War of the Spanish Succession.

The Anglo-Dutch forces gained minor compensation for the failed Moselle campaign with the success at Elixheim and the crossing of the Lines of Brabant in the Spanish Netherlands ( Huy was also retaken on 11 July ), but a chance to bring the French to a decisive engagement had eluded Marlborough.

The accomplished French officer, Colonel de la Colonie, standing on the plain nearby remembered – " this village was the opening of the engagement, and the fighting there was almost as murderous as the rest of the battle put together.

The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.

Zealous by contrast was barely touched: Hood had situated Zealous outside the arc of most of the French ship's broadside and in any case Guerrier was not prepared for an engagement on both sides simultaneously, with its port guns blocked by stores.

Although Prévost's attack was supposed to coincide with the naval engagement, it was slow to get under way.

Some of the Spanish battalions supposed to join and reinforce the engagement in the north, on seeing how their comrades are faring, decide to disobey orders and retreat.

On the afternoon Rucker announces his engagement, Will sneaks off to go fishing in the country despite the fact that he is supposed to be in mourning for his grandmother.

In style, substance loses any such power of pressure, dissolving into a play of movement and light ; marks of dishonor, feelings of shame, behaviors of abashment — these suddenly have no more pertinence than the rules of a schoolmarm in the Wild West, or the laws of a nation in a foreign embassy .” These two ways formed, according to Miller, “ the basis for the social engagement that 8½ is not widely supposed to have .” Miller continued:

Therefore, the third principle of the plan must be that it does not depend for effectiveness on engagement by the same types, unless at an assured favorable exchange rate.

Some people said Linda had just announced the engagement to jolt John into some action, but when John came home from a business trip to Cleveland with Edythe, with Edythe his bride, it could no longer be John-and-Linda even to sentimental wishful thinkers.

: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.

With a rigid mechanical linkage, smooth engagement would be near-impossible because engine movement inevitably occurs as the drive is " taken up.

Partial engagement under any significant load tends to be destructive.

It is argued however that such missiles and arsenal ships pose no serious threat as they would be eliminated due to increasing improvement in ship defenses such as CEC ( cooperative engagement capability ), DEW technology and missile technology.

Rail fins evolved into being and surged into popularity as riders ( Simon Anderson, most famously ) sought a solution to two major performance issues of a central " single " fin-both related to engagement of the foil: For one, a centrally-mounted fin is tilted up out of the water as the board is leaned over, and thus it loses more and more of its lift as the lean angle increases-if the lean angle is acute enough, the fin's tip can be the only area left in the water ; the tip may then rapidly stall and, having lost its lift, become disengaged from the water, leaving the board's bottom as the only control surface still operating.

The latter was closer to a modern engagement and could in theory be ended with the consent of both parties – but only providing intercourse had not occurred.

Since the holder of that position not only had to be a patrician but also be married to a patrician, he broke off his engagement to a plebeian girl he had been betrothed to since boyhood, and married Lucius Cinna's daughter Cornelia.

In 1836 Marx became engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, a beautiful baroness of the Prussian ruling class —" the most desirable young woman in Trier " — who broke off her engagement with a young aristocratic second lieutenant to be with him.

The joint celebrations for his mother Henriette's 80th birthday and his son Ernst's engagement, held in Oslo on 2 June 1939, would be the last time the two met.

" and " Her own reviews of Ewen's work in the Folk-Lore Society's periodical were amazingly ungracious, avoiding any engagement with his actual arguments or evidence and dismissing him completely in general terms as ' unscientific ', ' uncritical ', ' dull ', and so valueless and worthy only to be ignored.

While Burma's presence in ASEAN was seen as a test of the organisation's philosophy of constructive engagement, the presence of Burma in ASEAN however has started to be seen as an embarrassment to the organisation, because of Burma's human rights record and lack of democracy.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching selected Occidental as a community engagement institution, becoming one of a handful of liberal arts colleges to be so designated for its commitment to mutually beneficial collaboration with its surrounding communities.

McKay again refuses to be goaded into a fight, and he and Patricia agree to reconsider their engagement after she becomes upset at his apparent cowardice.

His description of the story of the Virgin Birth demystifies Biblical language and suggests that Mary was just another unfortunate fallen woman: it is " an account of a young woman engaged to be married, and while under this engagement she is, to speak plain language, debauched by a ghost ".

An engagement ring is a ring indicating that the person wearing it is engaged to be married, especially in Western cultures.

The rings however were not required to be given before marriage, unlike traditional engagement rings of today.

In countries where both partners wear engagement rings, matching rings may be selected and purchased together.

Until the Great Depression, a man who broke off a marriage engagement could be sued for breach of promise.

See, for example, the case of Meyer v. Mitnick, 625 N. W. 2d 136 ( Michigan, 2001 ), whose ruling found the following reasoning persuasive: " the so-called ' modern trend ' holds that because an engagement ring is an inherently conditional gift, once the engagement has been broken, the ring should be returned to the donor.