The Board has now approved a series of recommendations in support of its commitment that any decisions about school reorganization will be reached only after a comprehensive engagement with the community.

Everyone has to put limits on their emotional engagement with others - comprehensive engagement would be intolerable.

"He's confident that we have begun a process that will lead to a series of dialogues that will help improve the opportunity for comprehensive engagement with China," Mr. McCurry said.

What we hear will help inform how we can fulfill the President's vision of a foreign policy based on mutual interest and mutual respect, including a more comprehensive engagement with the world around common challenges.

Many donors see the conflict as an opportunity for more comprehensive engagement in an effort to promote stability in the region, to promote a legitimate government and curtail transnational threats.

Back then, the Administration thought it had found something approaching a Unified Theory - that comprehensive economic engagement and "enlargement" with great and small powers would lead, sooner or later, to the spread of both free-market capitalism and democracy.

UC recently initiated a strategy of "comprehensive engagement" with key foreign institutions.

The issue is also politically charged in Congress, where Republicans and Democrats both say that Beijing's continued repression of dissidents, combined with the soaring American trade deficit, has undermined the Administration's policy of "comprehensive engagement."

In content, what they are suggesting could involve the development of American policy towards the region based on the kind of comprehensive and long-term engagement which we have been advocating and trying to implement for many years.

It signals a halt, if not an end, to the Clinton Administration's policy of "comprehensive engagement" that was supposed to bring China and the United States together through high-level exchanges intended to embrace rather than isolate the Beijing Government.