Sentence examples for occupying itself from inspiring English sources
So that is how the family has been occupying itself since last you saw us.
Otherwise, the N.B.A. is occupying itself with playoff-position jockeying and minute-by-minute updates on the health of Kevin Garnett's knee.
The game of mirrors seems aimed at convincing not only the Vietnamese but the POW/MIA lobby in the U.S. that the Liaison Office won't be occupying itself with anything beyond the lobby's obsessive issue.
But if it is necessary to look for the secret of Mr Pater's success in The Renaissance Studiess in Art and Poetry, it might be stated as lying in a peculiar exquisiteness, distinction, refinement, occupying itself with artistic subjects somewhat remote in character.
In The Concept of Mind (1949), Gilbert Ryle declared that "There is no special Faculty of Imagination, occupying itself single-mindedly in fancied viewings and hearings", and in the latter half of the 20th century such deflationary views of the imagination (perhaps in reaction to its earlier inflation by Romanticism) became commonplace amongst analytic philosophers (see Thomas, 2014).
In such a polity one would, of course, find a church and a state, though Maritain would see them as cooperative entities, with the state occupying itself with those matters that, while focusing on temporal concerns, addressed the needs of the whole of the human person, and with the church focussing on spiritual matters.
Europe has plenty to occupy itself with for some time to come.
The orchestra while it lasted, occupied itself exclusively with rhythmic items composed by Mr. Cage.
They conducted an extensive search, but the paper was never accused of evasion.AFIP has also occupied itself with smaller fish.
Unlike the major participants, it has occupied itself more with terror and ransom kidnappings than with ideological warfare.
Baseball isn't playing any games, either, despite its management's best efforts to stretch the playoffs into Christmas-shopping season, so it occupies itself shuffling players around.
