Sentence examples for issues that occupied from inspiring English sources

The president said little during his visit that would suggest he was about to change his mind on any of the issues that occupied the crowds here.

The younger Mr. Assad inherits the foreign policy issues that occupied his father, but may not have the same freedom to strike a deal with Israel.

"This term must be about the bread and butter issues that occupy people's thoughts when they get up in the morning and when they lay down at night: their jobs, their health and education, whether they can pay their bills, their opportunities to get ahead, their security".

Consider the issues that occupy the Christian Church.

The miniscule and mundane ethical issues that occupy media attention pale in comparison with the global ethics of turning a blind eye to the systematic starvation of a whole generation of women and children in Iraq and Afghanistan through economic sanctions.

There were also 13 patients (2.4 % of cohort) who were reported to have an overwhelming focus on opioid-related drug issues (that occupies a significant proportion of consultation and impedes progress with other treatment-related issues) along with 22 patients (4.0 % of cohort) who were reported to have pain with unclear aetiology/exaggeration of pain.

Now, with a legislative calendar that has been heavily weighted toward campaign finance reform and a tax cut, Philip Morris is having a hard time getting lawmakers, many of whom have supported the regulation of cigarettes in the past, to revisit the issue that occupied so much of the national consciousness in the 1990's.

If feminism is solely about personal empowerment, one is likely not to see much difference between Trump and Clinton, for the bodily autonomy of all women is probably not an issue that occupies one's thoughts.

While India may be the region in Asia where investment capital and attention is growing at the quickest pace, Lauria believes that there's an increasing interest in Southeast Asia particularly given the stock market issues that have occupied China and the Chinese tech community.

The world would be better off, the critics say, if economists returned to the sort of grand issues that had occupied John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman.

In 1962, Hart's book The Concept of Law raised issues that have occupied legal philosophers ever since.