Sentence examples for preoccupation at the from inspiring English sources

Gaming those calculations seems to have been a preoccupation at the bank.

Johnson's abiding preoccupation at the time was the idea of procession, the differentiation of spaces through which people pass.

Heavy farm breakfasts before work got the blame for indigestion, a major preoccupation at the time, and a lighter version became the ideal.

There was a preoccupation at the school to protect the teacher and much less interest in reaching out to the three students".

Liberty's main preoccupation at the moment is an effort to win approval from Germany's cartel office for its plan to buy six big regional cable TV systems from Deutsche Telekom for about $5 billion.

Painfully high inflation was the bank's preoccupation at the end of last year - the result of the collapse of the value of the rouble - and it was the reason for the very sharp rate rise late last year.

My preoccupation at that point was with obfuscation and obscurity in the jargon of money, and the way they could be used as a tool to keep laypeople at a distance.

But Thompson's suicide wasn't pre-eminent among his (reportedly estranged) wife Marian's preoccupations at the time.

Still, if all criticism is a form of autobiography (as Oscar Wilde would have it), one might look to these pieces for clues to his preoccupations at the time.

Whether and how people with disabilities have sex seem to be Hollywood preoccupations at the moment, as films like "The Sessions" and "Rust and Bone" attest, though the subject is hardly new; "Coming Home" explored it back in 1978.

"The last time Uniqlo tried to break into the UK it was all about the growth of the 'value retailer'," says Portas, "People were looking at the chain and thinking, 'It's not that cheap.' They didn't really fit in with people's preoccupations at the time".