Sentence examples for of preoccupation to from inspiring English sources

The PRAM-SBD was related to all three dimensions of antenatal attachment (i.e., Global Attachment, Quality of Attachment and Intensity of Preoccupation) to the same extent.

Indeed, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton and Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman are taking advantage of that preoccupation to push through ripper measures while no one is paying attention.

Even if these observations are completely accurate, they seem somehow less than satisfying as explanations for how a central institution of American government could go in a span of weeks from preoccupation to invisibility, less worthy of attention than a Jeep factory in China.

Her first travel piece, about Cairo, from 1955, bears traces of what would later be called orientalism: someone with "black eyes, mournful and gay at the same time", displays "quick fatalistic anger" – anger is non-fatalistic almost by definition, but this is "the east" – or looks up out of his deep preoccupation to give a sudden shout, "as Arabs do" (what, all of them)?

The Spartans would continue to attempt, over the next several years, to knock either Corinth or Argos out of the war; the anti-Spartan allies, meanwhile, sought to preserve their united front against Sparta, while Athens and Thebes took advantage of Sparta's preoccupation to enhance their own power in areas they had traditionally dominated.

He also continued to write short stories, but in 1923, after contracting tuberculosis, he abruptly changed his major theme from one of self-preoccupation to one of concern with the state of the masses.

What had happened, the field assistant explained, was that Lanjo must have taken advantage of Eslom's mate-guarding preoccupation to lure away Leona, who was also showing signs of being in heat, though not as vividly as Bubbles.

It wouldn't become a point of preoccupation for people to need to establish which category they can put you in based on your sexuality, gender, race, class status, job, diet... whatever.

Munro's short story collections, from her acclaimed debut in 1968 with Dance of the Happy Shades and its masterful handling of adolescent preoccupations to 2006's fictionalised family history The View from Castle Rock, have generally focused on smalltown life in rural Ontario.

Munro's short story collections, from her acclaimed debut in 1968 with Dance of the Happy Shades and its masterful handling of adolescent preoccupations to 2006's fictionalised family history The View from Castle Rock, have generally focused on small-town life in rural Ontario.

In its violent yoking together of disparate emotional and aesthetic references, Sontag's thesis is an uncanny presentiment of cultural preoccupations to come.