Sentence examples for consuming the attention from inspiring English sources

A few seats away, a race had broken out between Ivan Chen, 9, and Simon Shen, 11, consuming the attention of the crowd.

But with other priorities now consuming the attention of Trump's transition team, Cubans in south Florida wonder if the president-elect really intends to deliver on the pledges he has made to rein in Obama's new accord.

With immigration policy and the violent Mexican drug wars consuming the attention of policy makers, the cartoonish confrontation of north and south in the ring has found an eager audience in California, home to 37percentt of the nearly 12 million Mexicans estimated by the nonprofit Migration Policy Institute to be living in the United States.

With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan consuming the attention of national security planners in Washington, the Bush administration's interest in Somalia was driven primarily by fact that a handful of Qaeda operatives responsible for attacks in the Horn of Africa were thought to be hiding there.

As would be expected in an overwhelmed medical system, these patients were consuming the attention of their caregivers to the exclusion of non-critical patients.

The crisis is consuming the attentions of the ruling elite in a country that is struggling to overcome economic turmoil and a bloody al-Qa'ida fueled insurgency.

Currently consuming the organizers' attention is a scramble for accommodations for nearly 1,000 performers from 34 countries who will stay in a variety of places ranging from private homes to the Columbia University dormitories, the Mayflower Hotel and the Downtown Athletic Club.

The bill has widespread support -- including from interfaith groups and religious leaders -- but it also faces competing bills backed by powerful energy interests and a state budget crisis that is consuming the legislature's attention.

Fisher is standing firm, leaving a vast rift that is consuming the union's attention just as the N.B.A. is wrapping up a surprisingly successful regular season after the 149-day lockout.

In turn, the ORH was historically perceived by many NOC members as the "big beast on the hill": not well-managed and consuming all the attention and resources, as opposed to the "small and beautiful" NOC.

The move has spawned fresh conflict in a government that has held power for only two months, consuming its attention in the midst of pressing economic, food and energy concerns.