Sentence examples for it was preoccupied from inspiring English sources

Earlier on Tuesday, Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak, suggested that the United States was halting its effort because it was preoccupied with the fallout from leaks of confidential diplomatic cables.

Often it was preoccupied with human mortality.

It was preoccupied with the Myanmar junta's farcical plans for an election this year.

96, 31 36] provides a good example where this was not done as it was preoccupied with avoiding false-positives only.

The reason the beef industry neglected consumer trends in the past, officials say, is that it was preoccupied with a cost-cutting revolution in production.

Despite his relatively short career and the fact that most of it was preoccupied with business affairs, Ricardo achieved a leading position among the economists of his time.

Lyrically, it's preoccupied with relationship woe and black empowerment.

It is preoccupied with clueless Romantic-era notions of "pristine" wildernesses.

It is preoccupied not with protecting a single heritage but with juggling many.

Like much derivative Western art of recent years, it is preoccupied with skill, narrative and some form of realism.

While it is preoccupied with the history of factory legislation, it does not offer a full narrative that takes this as its 'object'object