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

He added that what was needed was sustained engagement, mixed with firmness, to try to help influence Russia during its "unfinished transformation."

As you say, there is an overwhelming need for sustained international engagement in Afghanistan's reconstruction.

"It represented a long period of work, 10 years really of sustained engagement," Mr. Kerry said in an interview on Friday.

Cramming freshman calculus into six weeks would deny the students this crucial sustained engagement with the material.

To understand the factors affecting young people's commitment to, and sustained engagement in, musical participation.

Mr. Cheney's visit was part of a pattern of sustained, high-level American engagement with the Iraqi leaders in recent weeks.

Peace in the Middle East will come about only through the sustained personal engagement of this president.

Neither he nor his lieutenants have shown much appetite for a sustained engagement with Congress on the complex details of health-care, budget and tax legislation.

The political dialogue initiated in 2008 provides a good platform for sustained engagement with the Eritrean authorities.