Sentence examples for overall preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Despite all these negative experiences, an overall preoccupation with the patient was always present, resulting in actions of care even for the patient with 'the hopeless disease'.

"Government salaries are late and overall job security is a major preoccupation of the people.

For now, though, the disconnect between Mr. Obama's national security record and his overall approval rating, though understandable given Americans' preoccupation with the economy, is a matter of continuing frustration within the administration.

Besides, what defines great historians is not the way their particular interpretations speak to contemporary standards and preoccupations, but the power of their overall vision of the past.

The challenge is to convert this latent power into a force for genuine good, by directing it at the overall quality of nutrition rather than the next nutrient preoccupation du jour.

Our hypotheses are therefore that, compared to patients receiving equivalent clinician time, patients who receive ACT will show improvement in (a) overall mental state (incorporating positive, negative and general symptoms); (b) preoccupation, conviction, distress and disruption to life associated with positive psychotic symptoms; (c) social functioning, and (d) adaptive behavior.

Weight problems were associated with DE overall and with both factors: oral control and bulimia and food preoccupation (shown in table 3).

Although the pattern of microbial exposure in the home may have changed, there is no evidence that our modern preoccupation for cleanliness has resulted in a decline in overall microbial exposure.

Removing these items not only resulted in lower consumption of junk food at school and overall (no compensatory junk eating at home), but it also didn't seem to result in negative preoccupation with weight.

Clinicians will be asked to complete the Eating Disorder Symptom Severity Scale (EDS3) [ 33] which will examine their observations of the youth's eating disorder symptoms such as: dieting behaviours, body image preoccupations, agitation related to eating/body image, fear of fat, food anxiety, as well as overall motivation for treatment.

This was likely to be linked to the strong overall tendency to focus on the deficiencies in Port Adelaide rather than the strengths in Mitcham; that is, a preoccupation with 'health deficits' as opposed to a positive notion of health and how it may be enhanced.