employed,

Mrs. Hurst sang with her sister, and while they were thus employed,

Pride and Prejudice 2004

‘I haven’t been not to say right slap through him, very lately,’ Mr Wegg made answer, ‘having been otherways employed,

Our Mutual Friend 2004

In order to stop crime from engulfing the country, the working and living conditions of police officials had to be improved, training for detectives upgraded, proper equipment such as firearms and vehicles bought and at least 20,000 additional members employed,

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

Conference recognised that, while it is the duty of all government to try and ensure that its citizens are employed,

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

He'd now mastered two Navaho phrases: yatahey and the one he'd just employed,

Cyber Way Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

Not caring for this work, and thinking he might be more usefully employed,

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

If this precaution is omitted, there is danger of precipitating earthy phosphates on heating; and should a great excess of acid be employed,

Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various

Now in _Ringing Changes_, two of our best Senses, are to be employed,

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

[*] * The wages of workmen are decided by the Trades Unions, who draw up "tariffs" for the whole country, basing their calculations on three criteria: (I) The price of food in the open market in the district where a workman is employed,

The Crisis in Russia Arthur Ransome 1925

P: Lo! those who merit paradise this day are happily employed,

Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902