Sentence examples for preoccupation began from inspiring English sources

Fascinated by audio tape, his preoccupation began as a teenager in the late 1960's.

In the Preface to his One Long Argument Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought, Mayr wrote 'My interest in Darwin's thought arose in my university years, but my more active preoccupation began in 1959 with the centenary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.

But within a year Ms. Peyton had taken up more contemporary, if equally romantic, subjects and her preoccupations began to come into focus.

Simpson's style and preoccupations began to change with "At the End of the Open Road," a book for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1964.

But as we move back and forth between his unchanging rocks and his ever-evolving clouds, Epstein's historical, temporal, and social preoccupations begin to reveal themselves.

Although the couple presented themselves as a perfect partnership in work and life, Charles's increasing preoccupation with photography began to marginalize Ray in the office, and his chronic womanizing must have been difficult for her to bear.

Mr. Price, 31, said his preoccupation with the potato began in 1995 in Springfield, Mo., his hometown, when he was "a starving artist living off potatoes".

Soon after the United States declared war against Britain in 1812, Algiers took advantage of the United States' preoccupation with Britain and began intercepting American merchant ships in the Mediterranean.

This began a lifelong preoccupation with the country.

In the weeks leading to his death Johnson had called every one of his friends and, as they pieced together the clues left in his wake, a preoccupation with the number 13 began to emerge – not least in the date of his death.

The lack of transparency around the processes of Google's search engine has been a preoccupation among scholars since the company began.