Japan had been actively engaged in World Trade Organization negotiations in that area.

Some 25 percent of the Georgian work force was engaged in agriculture in 1990 37 percent had been so engaged in 1970.

While in Egypt, Antony had been engaged in an affair with Cleopatra and had fathered three children with her.

Twelve persons had been brought to justice on charges of having engaged in sexual relations with minors the majority had been law enforcement officials.

The primary threat came from the Dutch, who had been engaged in a struggle for independence against Spain since 1568.

I have been engaged in fencing since 2015.

After the First Barbary War, the European nations had been engaged in warfare with one another (and the U.S. with the British).

With regard to Gaza, Israel had engaged in a scorched earth policy.

Ukraine, with which I have been engaged since its independence, has been a great frustration to me.

Noting that an outside consultant had been engaged to draft the report, she reminded the State party that technical presentation was only one aspect of the exercise.

Since 2002, we have been engaged in a very useful follow up process.

Significant progress has been made, with all regions fully engaged in data collection.

Ms. Ize Charrin recalled that the Office of the High Commissioner had been actively engaged in strengthening the implementation of the recommendations of treaty bodies through various projects.

Spain and the United Kingdom had been engaged, since 1984, in a negotiating process known as the Brussels Process in order to resolve all their differences concerning Gibraltar.

Hernán Cortés, who was later to dominate Mexico, would have been among the soldiers of fortune engaged in this adventure, had a sudden illness not prevented him from sailing.

Their age, their weapons, and the fact that they were within the distance of the forces that had been engaged made it apparent these guys were potentially a threat.

Instead, they have been engaged for weeks in an unseemly brawl about the past.

Regional and other intergovernmental organizations have also been engaged in anti money laundering activities.

Women have long been engaged in traditional gold panning and small scale diamond mining.

Moreover, the LTTE has engaged in re recruiting those who had been released and even those who had escaped from training camps, through threats, intimidation and physical attacks on the children, as well as their family members.

Ethiopia had engaged in relentless efforts to realize commitment 3 (Building human and institutional capacity).

For seven centuries, Hungary and Romania have been engaged in wars over territory and peoples.

In recent years, China has been engaged in various international demining cooperation and assistance efforts.

The paper alleged that the men had been enticed into such practices by a Norwegian, who gave them money and gifts in exchange for photos of them engaged in homosexual acts.

The applicant was an employee of a First Nations reserve and as a result had been engaged in tax exempt Indian employment, which made her ineligible for contributions to the CPP.

According to Iraq, the salaries of the persons engaged in the studies would have been paid even if the conflict had not occurred and, accordingly, Kuwait University has suffered no loss.

There were gaps to be addressed in the Convention because of the range of operations that had not been envisaged when the Convention had been concluded and because of the increasing threats to the safety of United Nations and associated personnel engaged in different types of risky operations.

First and foremost, America s government and consumers have been engaged in a never ending consumption binge.

Ethiopia has been engaged in implementing various policies and programmes that are in line with NEPAD.

He seemed deeply engaged, but made no comment, asking me only if I had anything in writing.

Indeed, the Cypriot authorities have been engaged in ongoing discussions with the troika for the past year.

Surely this they are engaged upon shall be shattered , and void is what they have been doing . '

Surely this they are engaged upon shall be shattered , and void is what they have been doing . '

For the past 12 years, we have been engaged in discussions about changes to the Security Council.

Since then, the islanders have been engaged in deciding how to broaden their political and legislative status.

The Agency has also been actively engaged in attracting new participants to its nuclear security cooperation programme.

The Mexican competition authority found that the association had engaged in unlawful price fixing and imposed a fine.

Verily these ! destroyed is that wherein they are engaged and vain is that which they have been doing .

Verily these ! destroyed is that wherein they are engaged and vain is that which they have been doing .

In Sierra Leone, UNAMSIL has been actively engaged in supporting the Government to ensure its control over diamonds.

Since then, Turkey and Spain have been jointly engaged in furthering the initiative, which has also been endorsed by the Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan.

When Greece imploded, the investments turned sour, and the Cypriot banks that had engaged in this strategy became insolvent.

She had remained in Spain for that entire period, during which she had furthermore been very openly engaged in political activity on behalf of the Basque cause, rather than attempting to find a refuge in order to escape the serious risks of torture she reports.

Several friends of mine in the Conservative party s parliamentary group have long been engaged in supporting a free Taiwan.

In recent times, multinational regional forces, both armed and unarmed, have been engaged in conflict and post conflict operations.