Sentence examples for are preoccupied in from inspiring English sources

About 21.9% of independent directors are preoccupied in a typical sample year by a combination of distracting events, and a typical independent director-firm observation is preoccupied about once every 4.5 years.

They are preoccupied, in other words, with learning how to make those lens-size blobs more efficiently — not with turning them into hamburgers or meatballs.

Both these filmmakers, two of the greatest of the movie-brat generation, are preoccupied, in their respective ways, sometimes nostalgically, with older movies, both European and Hollywood.

(The best time to review is when they are preoccupied in the bathroom).

Everyone was preoccupied, in just the way we usually call innocence.

In religious matters, particularly concerning Christology, Sergius was preoccupied in reconciling dissident monophysite Christians with the orthodox decrees of the general council of Chalcedon (451).

An aide to Mr. Daschle said he had been preoccupied in recent days with the need to help a brother who was being treated for a brain tumor.

In their own defense, automakers have said that they were preoccupied in the 1990's with solving hazards posed to children by first-generation frontal air bags.

I think the press really was preoccupied in many ways with what was going on on the Republican side, maybe because they thought there was greater uncertainty about how it was going to come out.

Mr. Kerry said that Mr. Bush's refusal to engage in bilateral negotiations with Kim Jong Il, the North Korean president, had permitted the country to develop nuclear weapons while Mr. Bush was preoccupied in Iraq.

In the following years, Murdoch was preoccupied in Britain with two separate ambitions – to tame the print unions while introducing computer technology and to launch a satellite television system.