Recognition of the need for sustained, long-term engagement.

The overriding military need for defence on the western and eastern frontiers of the Empire eventually made effective long-term engagement on a global scale impossible.

A generally optimistic person, stuck in a job and a long-term engagement, neither of which she's happy with.

CE aims at long-term engagement, encouraging customer loyalty and advocacy through word-of-mouth.

He cannot, and should not, commit the American people to what could prove a long-term military engagement without first building public and Congressional support.

He has devised an ingenious way to keep his freedom-loving paraphernalia from being pinned down by long-term engagements.

During this time, it also started its long-term engagement with Southeast Asia - which it began under the Colombo Plan.

This would require long-term outside engagement in economic development, security and education, but it would be worth the cost.

The association agreement should be seen as a framework for a long-term engagement with Syria in this respect.

In Afghanistan, Donnelly speaks of "economic development" and long-term diplomatic engagement aimed at "not just winning the war, but creating a stable peace."