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  • Mr. Kirk said the president has directed him to "immediately intensify engag ement" with the two countries to resolve outstanding issues as soon as possible.

    Korea Trade Deal to Reach Congress in Weeks Tom Barkley 2011

  • This is hardly surprising since all the hopeful talk about "engag [ing] in a conversation with America that seeks to remove ideological filters, addresses the realities we are confronting, and speaks to the challenges our citizens are facing" gave way rather quickly to "No!"

    Wanted: real Republican ideas 2010

  • Whether the government intends to proceed on this, or on the other leg of the “terrorism” definition (“intentionally engag (ing) in an act that evinces a wanton disregard for human life”), it once more runs up against the principle of legality/ex post facto prohibition, because any such training or targeting of military objectives was not a violation before the MCA made it so.

    Balkinization 2007

  • A promising but complicating aspect to the approach Clinton hopes to take is her interest in bypassing ministries and "engag [ing] civil society" directly "to strengthen the foundations needed to support good governance, free elections, and a free press, wider educational opportunities, stronger healthcare systems, religious tolerance, and human rights."

    Alex Pasternack: Can Hillary Forge a Climate Treaty With China? 2009

  • Whether the government intends to proceed on this, or on the other leg of the “terrorism” definition (“intentionally engag (ing) in an act that evinces a wanton disregard for human life”), it once more runs up against the principle of legality/ex post facto prohibition, because any such training or targeting of military objectives was not a violation before the MCA made it so.

    Balkinization 2007

  • “Terrorism” is defined as “kill (ing) or inflict (ing) great bodily harm on one or more protected persons, or intentionally engag (ing) in an act that evinces a wanton disregard for human life ....”

    Balkinization 2007

  • Many Winter Soldiers (2008) "discussed the pervasiveness of racist behavior," admitted using racial epithets, and "engag (ing) in brutality that dehumanized Iraqis and Afghanis."

    Reviewing Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd's "Rules of Disengagement" 2009

  • They probably thought it was heroic to keep up their sham engag ...

    Holly Schlesinger: Tripp Palin: Was I A Mistake? 2009

  • Many Winter Soldiers (2008) "discussed the pervasiveness of racist behavior," admitted using racial epithets, and "engag (ing) in brutality that dehumanized Iraqis and Afghanis."

    Printing: Reviewing Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd's "Rules of Disengagement" 2009

  • They probably thought it was heroic to keep up their sham engag ...

    Holly Schlesinger: Tripp Palin: Was I A Mistake? 2009

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