1.   At whatever level we are working the first engagement with the work comes through dramatic tension of some kind.

2.   This was their first public engagement this season but it was small beer compared to this coming Saturday.

3.   A season by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the first engagement to be produced by the Joyce, did the trick.

4.   Clinton, meanwhile, faced fresh humiliation from the hosts of his first public engagement as a former president.

5.   Her first engagement after the surgery was her debut with the New York Philharmonic, with Leonard Slatkin conducting.

6.   In his first public engagement since the agreement, Adams traveled to a center of IRA support, the village of Carrickmore Sunday.

7.   It was the first armed engagement between KFOR and the gunmen, probably Albanian guerrillas, since the peacekeepers started reinforcing the border last week.

8.   It was the first major engagement of the Mexican War and was won by United States forces.

9.   Nugent described his participation in the Boston event as his first speaking engagement since receiving the Vatican directive.

10.   Original elements of the Alhambra Theater, where Manning had his first professional engagement, also still exist in the building.