Sentence examples for fixated on trying from inspiring English sources

Washington seems fixated on trying to solve America's drug problem through intervention in other countries.

Where everyone else was fixated on trying to placate international investors, Iceland imposed temporary controls on the movement of capital to give itself room to maneuver.

"There's no doubt it was an accident, but Mrs. Corbett seems fixated on trying to understand what was on his mind before he died".

As President Obama's approval ratings soared, and his programs were put in place, the Republican establishment became fixated on trying to moderate the Party's image in the hope of regaining the lost middle.

The continuation of the species will not, Theron thinks, result from the kind of "bloodline obsession" seen in the film, where the warload leader becomes fixated on trying to spawn a healthy male heir, but she does see similarities.

In fact, in many conditions, genes have only a small role to play in the causation of the disease, yet we have become fixated on trying to tackle them, to the detriment of other, more fruitful approaches".

The problem with architecture exhibitions is that they fixate on trying to represent buildings that are missing.

Kurtan fixates on trying to track down a long-lost school friend.

Therefore you should not fixate on trying to identify the exact top or bottom because the data needed to arrive that conclusion is faulty.

But job growth has been largely off the agenda in Washington, in part because lawmakers are fixated on, yes, trying to limit the national debt.

They start to fixate on themselves, trying to make sure that they don't make any mistakes.