Sentence examples for a good preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Good things can come of it, and I hope they will, particularly in that region of the world, because Iraq and Iran really have a chance, and deserve a chance for the next stage in their history, for the kind of potentially middle-class societies where you can build more rule of law and have a good preoccupation with economic development.

Re "Networks Too Big for Their Own Good" (Preoccupations, Oct. 18): I agree that relying on networks to find talented job candidates makes sense, and that the way some networks are used today does not.

People may get satisfaction out of [just getting a good salary]." Dalglish's preoccupation is how to assemble his new acquisitions.

The hope for a "good death" is a universal human preoccupation.

Essentially, the intelligentsia consisted of persons with a good modern education and a passionate preoccupation with general political and social ideas.

According to Newby and Tucker [ 9], this can be explained in part by the preoccupation of women with a good physical shape.

Parochial preoccupations don't set a good example.

We must certainly step aside from our aesthetic preoccupations for a minute and see what we can do to help, but we ought also to return to these preoccupations, because they are a good chunk of the point of surviving at all.

This seemed like a good moment to ask about de Villiers's own preoccupations.

"Children's preoccupations and what it means to be a good parent shine through in an awful lot of Steven's work".

We got an over-all impression of good humor, preoccupation, and a high purpose with just a whiff of intrigue.