Beyond this direct involvement, he played a large role in bringing businesses and people to the town.

It is uncertain whether he had any direct involvement in politics for the following few years.

The matter related to Standing of third parties with no direct involvement.

On May 10, he was charged with direct involvement in the attack.

It was clear that Washington could not avoid direct involvement much longer.

This will be my last direct involvement with the case.

At the time Sun had no direct involvement as he was still in exile.

It would also end the city's direct involvement in its operation.

"The time has come and problems are severe enough for the state to have direct involvement," he said.

But Friday's meeting was the mayor's first direct involvement in the investigation.

Joint ventures provide a particularly attractive route to direct involvement as they allow Guinness to benefit from linking its brands with those of complementary partners.

Several theories point to direct toxicity or vascular involvement.

Such a mission could easily open the way to direct American involvement in the fighting, if, for example, the Bosnian Serbs chose to disrupt the U.N. redeployment.

Bombing could be the first step to direct involvement in the war.

Of most significance in this battle however, was the decision by Soviet military advisers to commit to direct involvement.

Another model, common in the worlds of ballet and opera, is a director more attuned to management and fund-raising than to direct artistic involvement.

PDM may take many forms and can run the gamut from informal suggestion systems to direct high involvement at the policy and administrative level.

But the Texas colloquialism, a signal that Mr. Bush considered himself enmeshed in the peace process, did not extend to direct presidential involvement over the weekend.

All could lead to direct involvement by the United States military.

Kelly's workload remained relatively stable until the mid-1960s, when American efforts to prevent the fall of the South Vietnamese government led to direct American involvement.