Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Withdrawal from the activities of a group.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun withdrawing from the activities of a group
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Examples
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To fret over things like the outward appearance to non-vegans of using vegan soap and avoiding honey is a non-engagement with issues that deserve our attention.
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To fret over things like the outward appearance to non-vegans of using vegan soap and avoiding honey is a non-engagement with issues that deserve our attention.
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The Obama administration's 2009 decision to reverse the counterproductive non-engagement policy is producing dramatic changes at the Geneva-based body, as evidenced by this week's vote on Iran.
Dokhi Fassihian: Is the U.S. Prepared to Win at the UN Human Rights Council? We Just Did Dokhi Fassihian 2011
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The Obama administration's 2009 decision to reverse the counterproductive non-engagement policy is producing dramatic changes at the Geneva-based body, as evidenced by this week's vote on Iran.
Dokhi Fassihian: Is the U.S. Prepared to Win at the UN Human Rights Council? We Just Did Dokhi Fassihian 2011
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The Obama administration's 2009 decision to reverse the counterproductive non-engagement policy is producing dramatic changes at the Geneva-based body, as evidenced by this week's vote on Iran.
Dokhi Fassihian: Is the U.S. Prepared to Win at the UN Human Rights Council? We Just Did Dokhi Fassihian 2011
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Eight years of non-engagement by President Bush was a huge mistake.
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Jews Ought to Stick with President Obama 2010
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Eight years of non-engagement by President Bush was a huge mistake.
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This pragmatism should be acknowledged by an institutionally obstinate US that must by now realise that its policy of non-engagement has simply brought it no reward over the past six years, whether it is in weakening Syria's relations with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran or improving the country's human rights record.
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As for the new strategy, one thing we should be clear about is that the issue has never been engagement or non-engagement with the NCP.
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Notice how Barack's criticism of Hillary in the democratic primary for saying she would engage in vigorous diplomacy with the world's dictators but would not pledge that would not declare she is willing to meet with them in her first year was "a continuation of the bush policy of non-engagement with enemoes".
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