Sentence examples for in a preoccupation from inspiring English sources
Will the wider multidisciplinary impetus of public health now be lost in a preoccupation with status?
Global current requirement is to reduce energy consumption which results in a preoccupation for low energy buildings.
REPORT: A master of the auto-invitation, drone, on being told that her interlocutor has acquired a new lawn chair, responded in earnest, "What time should I come over to see it?" Drone's overarching need to exist at the central point of all social groups, when wedded to her deep-seated suspicion of others' motives, results in a preoccupation with boundaries not seen since Yalta.
Throw in a preoccupation with control and sexual and emotional cruelty, and you've got yourself a Banks corker.
Intrusions are manifested in a preoccupation with the disaster, repeated thoughts about the event, vivid memories accompanied by painful emotions or nightmares.
In sum, I suggest that the key to generating a more effective biological curriculum is to suppress the tendency to be generously inclusive (which often results in a preoccupation with trivia) and to concentrate on foundational knowledge and useful skills.
I first reported on my boat-in-progress in a "Preoccupations" column in January 2010.
In a Preoccupations column this past spring, Tom Agan, an innovation and brand expert, wrote, "If an organization wants innovation to flourish, the conversation needs to change from severance packages to retention bonuses".
Sexually ambivalent in his private life, Fellini revealed in Satyricon a preoccupation with obesity, mutilation, and hermaphroditism that many found disturbing.
No one is better at explicating the role of personal character in public life, particularly the ways in which a preoccupation with honor, or reputation, informed 18th-century gentlemen's approach to power.
A lot of its preoccupations are still my preoccupations: European colonies, wars of independence in Africa, a preoccupation with the grubbier side of provincial England.
