Sentence examples for much preoccupation with from inspiring English sources

Rather than too much preoccupation with what number he has on his back, one of England's most gifted backs should simply just concentrate on doing what comes naturally.

In line with the focus on consumerism, there is currently much preoccupation with recording and measuring patient feedback via the friends andfamily test, a one-question survey that asks patients if they would be happy for friends and family to receive the same kind of treatment.

It's not so much our preoccupation with LOLCat photos or videos of fat girls flying off of swings that concerns him as it is the way we read and consume information on the Internet itself.

Ellison's preoccupation with morality was much in evidence in those tales, despite their bleakly humorous speculations about the consequences of technological advancement and human hubris.

Nor, despite Mr Obama's insistence that he sees Europe's security as indivisible from America's, is there likely to be much change in America's strategic preoccupation with China.

MUCH of the outside world's preoccupation with China in recent years has been with that country's strengths: would a rich China be a threatening one, could such a China be absorbed comfortably in regional and global institutions, how much money might be made from selling goods to a billion richer Chinese, how many jobs lost to imports from that same productive billion?

Jack Gould, television critic for The New York Times, wrote two days after Aubrey's dismissal that Aubrey symbolized an era in television that has been and is too much rooted in calculated and insensitive preoccupation with making more money this year than last... Automated situation comedies that wooed the young and did not drive away the old were the mainstay of his philosophy and they paid off.

As such it's an invaluable addition to Zweig's canon, casting as much light on the author's own preoccupation with personal and individual liberty as it does on Montaigne.

The sense of loneliness and preoccupation with death that permeates much of Kawabata's mature writing possibly derives from the loneliness of his childhood (he was orphaned early and lost all near relatives while still in his youth).

The singer considered it to be a "small development idea", as they were also unable to provide much support for it due to their preoccupation with other releases.

The president's recent preoccupation with re-election has left much of the world wondering, where is the United States?