Sentence examples for from their preoccupations from inspiring English sources

WHEN a troupe of Porsche engineers arrived here on a Monday afternoon early this month, the flamboyant graphic designs covering their cars — prototypes of the 918 Spyder, a supercar that is more than a year from its market debut — barely distracted tourists from their preoccupations.

It is hard to divert leaders of the Catholic church in the US from their preoccupations with private lives – marriage, reproduction and abortion – and persuade them to take up the very public cause Francis is seeking to ignite with his denunciation of capitalism and inequality, campaigners said.

We urge government to move away from their preoccupation with offering a seven-day NHS, and instead concentrate on securing our existing general practice service and out-of-hours services, so that we can deliver the care our patients need and deserve, close to home, when they need it," said Baker.

These issues are (or should be) encouraging colleges of agriculture away from their former preoccupation with production agriculture, to a strong business approach and greater attention to the sciences.

For the Burmese, the performance of all their daily acts of merit is not just buying a ticket to a higher plane of existence, as Mr. Pereira was trying to do in Norman Lewis's classic account of his Burmese travels, "Good Earth". They enjoy their giving and their escape from their selfish daily preoccupations, and who shall say them worse for it.

But in everyday lab work, each step toward formality feels like a pretention that distances us from humanness, from preoccupation with substance, from truth.

Where Westminster was distant from the daily preoccupations of the voters, the village caciques derived their power from their ability to do useful things for their clients.

These thinkers had little in common aside from their dissatisfaction with orthodox economics, its tendency to cut itself off from the other social sciences, its preoccupation with the automatic market mechanism, and its abstract theorizing.

He lost a great deal of weight and suffered from suicidal preoccupations and anxiety.

She is anything but a doctrinaire man-hater.From feminist preoccupations to overtly homosexual ones.

There he spent four years, "free from all preoccupations," and wrote his massive masterpiece, the Muqaddimah, an introduction to history.