Sentence examples for it becomes preoccupied from inspiring English sources

Israel has been trying for decades, the report says, to undermine Egypt's vital Nile water source so that it becomes preoccupied with water shortages rather than the Arab-Israeli conflict.

But it became preoccupied by bizarre intrigues over intelligence.

As it became preoccupied with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. left East Asia and the Pacific region to the biggest actor in the area, China.

Were the passions of my youth expending as I became preoccupied with skin, babies and diet?

The summer I was eight, I became preoccupied with the thought that I was going to die.

He becomes preoccupied with the girl, and is beside himself when it rains for a week and he doesn't see her.

As Amy becomes preoccupied with fear in case Cain finds out, Halfpenny said it makes Amy do "something dangerous".

Karpov becomes preoccupied with the mother and frustrated by his inability to reach the daughter.

Emotionally shaken, Dr. Neal becomes preoccupied with her possible culpability in her patient's death and with preserving her professional reputation.

Mired in "a loneliness almost beyond words," Hattie becomes preoccupied with a troubled Cambodian family, newly installed in a trailer just down the hill from her house.

As the worker becomes preoccupied with his discomfort and with his waning production, the effect typically is to produce still more inefficient work.