1.   All these cultural institutions were founded on the idea of engaging the public in philosophical discourse, he said.

2.   His lamps and furniture reflected his consistent desire to engage the public.

3.   So ambiguity remains, although the debate that continues among academics and political professionals has evidently long since stopped engaging the public at large.

4.   The increasing failure of so many French films to engage the public has given rise to much grumbling and is viewed as a looming cultural crisis.

5.   The president admitted that his own prolixity was in part responsible for his inability to engage the public on difficult issues of social policy.

6.   The public is engaged at very high levels about what is going on there.

7.   There is no sign that the public is much engaged by a debate about the long-term future of the income tax.

8.   This close to the elections, candidates say they are still struggling, with little success, to identify issues that engage the public.

9.   Thompson has said that he hopes to present a lively narrative that will engage the public.

10.   Unsexy as these topics may be, the so-called Millennium Round has already engaged the public more than any previous round of global negotiations.