Sentence examples for because of preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Assemblyman Wright, a Democrat, said the commission had stalled because of preoccupation with budget problems and political squabbling among Albany leaders, particularly under the combative former governor, Eliot Spitzer.

Largely because of its preoccupation with violence as entertainment, "Funny Games" has been compared with Stanley Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange".

He said family planning was already "off the radar" at the time because of the preoccupation with HIV-Aids.

Because of their preoccupation with form and their ivory-tower aloofness, the Acmeists were regarded with suspicion by the Soviet regime.

Elizabeth Loewy, a prosecutor, has said that Mr. Marshall defrauded his mother, who died two years ago at age 105, because of his "preoccupation for getting money for Charlene".

Now that "The Conversation" has become available on DVD in a special edition from Paramount, it is not only looking better than ever; it is also just as topical because of its preoccupation with technology and privacy.

Fascism is openly against people - in general, in favor of people-in-particular. Nationalism, although it theory not dedicated to such an idea, actually works against people-in-general because of its preoccupation with people-in-particular.

Sheehan has been dogged by controversy for years, mainly because of his preoccupation with linking Muslim men and rape and railing against multiculturalism, which he did in his first book Among the Barbarians.

He accuses the Fed of keeping monetary policy too tight because of a preoccupation with inflation; but it enacted several rounds of unconventional stimulus.Because the last crisis was less severe than the Depression, bankers were able to hold firm in resisting radical reform of the financial system.

This work fired the humanists with a new interest in Plato (who had been ignored in the West during the Middle Ages because of the preoccupation with Aristotle) and inspired Cosimo de' Medici with the project of founding the Platonic Academy of Florence.

They are what Hayek would call "malinvestments", investments in capacity that no one is willing to pay for or wait for.Hayek's students dubbed their Austrian-born professor "Mr Fluctooations" because of his preoccupation with the ups and downs of the business cycle, which he described in heavily accented English.