Sentence examples for occupied with questions from inspiring English sources

Also occupied with questions of identity have been young artists such as North Carolina's PJ, whose debut set Rare (Atlantic) is an endearing journey of self-discovery amid a world of stereotypes.

It's an ordinary enough sentence, yet in a novel much occupied with questions of immigration, of rightful belonging and the fraught history of Israel, the words perhaps gesture toward water in the desert: "for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert," as Isaiah has it.

One man occupied with the question was English astronomer Edmund Halley who speculated that observing the transit from extreme parts of the globe would help scientists come close to the calculation.

John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859) marks the transition to a modern conception of toleration, one that is no longer occupied with the question of religious harmony and does not restrict the issue of toleration to religious differences.

During much of the playwright Michael McKeever's relentlessly repetitive, apparently aimless first act, your mind may be occupied with seemingly rhetorical questions.

For now, the people around Ms. Spears are occupied with more basic questions — about how she will live, rather than whether she might perform again.

Much alarmist commentary on the web reflects a mindset occupied with Humpty Dumpty's question, "Which is to be master?" One of the most authoritative pronouncements on the subject (Hawking et al. [2014]) warns, "Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all".

Besides, the wealth of hungry youth in his company kept him easily occupied with simple and somewhat mechanical questions, affable enough for equally mechanical answers.

We are too often occupied with distractions, rather than trying to answer a simple question: What works?

The Methodist delegates in Tampa, primarily occupied with proposals for church reorganization plans, were lobbied heavily on the divestment question.

Others are occupied with other political battles.