The stereotypical project manager is consumed by problems of feature creep and budget allocation, the engineer speaks softly but carries a much bigger stick.
Our lives are consumed by problems much closer to home: keeping our jobs, paying the bills, raising our children.
Her time, she said, will be consumed by the problems in her neighborhood, where houses have no running water and routinely flood during rainstorms.
For months, the F.B.I. had been consumed by internal problems of its own, including the arrest of an agent, Robert P. Hanssen, on espionage charges, the disappearance of documents in the Oklahoma City bombing case and the fallout over the Wen Ho Lee spy case.
Consumed by the problems of the American economy and its efforts to hold off deep budget-cutting proposals from Republicans in the United States, the Obama administration has hardly been in a position in recent years to lecture other nations on good policy.
The documentary allows for reflection, as the Stax stalwart Sam Moore talks about being consumed by a drug problem that had him selling heroin on the streets of Manhattan to support his habit after he and his partner Dave Prater broke up in the early 70's.
These researchers and clinicians are consumed by the sexual problem Sigmund Freud posed to one of his female disciples almost a century ago: "The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is, What does a woman want?" Full of scientific exuberance, Chivers has struggled to make sense of her data.
IN HARD times governments are consumed by short-term problems.
As they roll down the highway, many long-haul passengers are impervious to security concerns, perhaps because they are consumed by more personal problems.
He is not a monster; he's just a regular guy consumed by his own problems: a breakup that leads him to spend far too much time on Facebook, tortured by his ex's chirpy status updates; his failure to launch a career.
