Sentence examples for off the preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Already the lines are being drawn tighter; already fear produces symptoms of the very disease we hope to fight off the preoccupation with loyalty, the tightening of censorship, the control of thought by legislative committee, the readiness to impute guilt by association, the impatience with liberalism.

He said family planning was already "off the radar" at the time because of the preoccupation with HIV-Aids.

When one of the employees stumbles trying to take a phone order from the United States, the customer hollers, "Am I calling freaking India to get a mug that says, 'America's No. 1'?" Even "Mike & Molly,"a CBS romantic comedy about a police officer and a teacher, can't shake off the national preoccupation with rising obesity rates.

At this moment we don't know who is readying the 1953 Smearbook, to carry on where Mortimer & Lait left off... Lately the preoccupation of the electorate with Sen. Nixon's finances almost completely obscured the bright fact that in Genl.

Cheese is but one of the preoccupations on the farm.

Before Afghanistan and Iraq, there was Kosovo, the preoccupation of Washington a decade ago but largely off the radar screen in recent times.

The agency is effectively asking Chinese auditors to flout local law, or China to cast off its preoccupation with state secrecy.

The preoccupation with squalor.

But the preoccupation now is internal.

Why the preoccupation with under-age girls?

The preoccupation in New Hampshire, so far, is with youth.