Sentence examples for of our preoccupation from inspiring English sources

However, markets are indeed, important and they have been largely ignored as a result of our preoccupation with the individual.

Perhaps even more importantly, his proposals attempt to remedy the impending anomaly of our preoccupation with exams at 16, which will make very little sense once the school-leaving age goes up to 18 in 2015.

The massive fudge of the proposed "British Bill of Rights" has been allowed to occupy centre stage for far too long, partly because of our preoccupation with law-making rather than with law-removal, but mainly because of the unwillingness of the Strasbourg-sceptics to admit what they're really on about.

And "The Hunger Games," besides dwelling, like so many of these books, on the age-old American concern about phoniness and authenticity, also points out the dark, scapegoating side of our preoccupation with reality shows, especially elimination contests like "American Idol" and "The Biggest Loser".

Here is a central dilemma of our preoccupation with heaven.

South Korea's new president is not keen on military action, and North Korea is taking advantage of our preoccupation with Iraq to practice nuclear brinkmanship.

They express their interpretation of the world and their understanding of our preoccupations and identities.

In all cases the patient should be at the centre of our preoccupations.

The cultural industry has done very well out of our recent preoccupation with conflict.

We've had these debates before, and we'll have them again: JPMorgan's settlement is only the latest instance of a big company being forced to pay a big sum to mollify those it has allegedly wronged, and the ensuing controversy is only the latest example of our cultural preoccupation with whether the punishment meted out to these companies is sufficient.

When we learn to read the manual of health instead of our current preoccupation with disease, our collective reach toward 100 healthy years will be realized.