An opening for a new engagement occurred in recent weeks, however.

"It's not to my advantage to have the theater go dark while we turn it to a new engagement," he said.

American officials had made contact with insurgent groups before, but the diplomat described the new engagement as much more significant.

This saved them and they got many new engagements.

The answer is in a new engagement in the pains of others.

And he summoned its people to "a new engagement in the lives of others, a new activism that gets things done."

They provided the rich tradition of the Dutch documentary with an effective narrative style, and especially a new social engagement.

So changing dynamics can create opportunities for new engagement.

Thanks to these new engagements he attended the papal court more regularly.

So the quartet took no new engagements but has honored all existing ones.