Sentence examples for preoccupation it from inspiring English sources

More than a preoccupation, it has had the force to undermine rulers, incite revolutions, circumscribe development and define patriotism.

(If urban affairs was the new Administration's central domestic preoccupation, it may have been in part because urban renewal — what was often referred to simply as "the cities" — had become a lively and fashionable political issue in the late nineteen-sixties, and had been the subject of innumerable magazine articles, television specials, and university seminars).

The way things are going, with eating out here becoming the kind of preoccupation it already is in Hong Kong, Bangkok and Singapore, they may one day call Ho Chi Minh City the Paris of the Orient because of the quality of its restaurants.

Preoccupation It's not surprisingly to learn that Mr Gott was the son of a manager with the Michelin and then Pirrelli tyre companies.

Due in part to preoccupation, it slipped from my memory and didn't return until my recent purchase of a MacBook Pro.

The various dimensions of the psychotic experience include the degree of conviction with which the delusional belief or beliefs about auditory hallucinations are held, the level of preoccupation it engenders, the degree of distress experienced as well as the behavioural responses used to cope with the experience [ 4].

In its preoccupations it might be described as "Son of 'American Beauty.' " If that first movie was a glum but polished man of the world, its offspring is a colicky baby who does a lot of screaming and yelling and banging of fists.

In keeping with its subject's professional and personal preoccupations, it will be "an indictment of my country, of time, of our forgetful, self-centered humanity".

But in Anglo-America, while there was some preoccupation with it, it was not formalized until the passage of the General Allotment Act, mid-1880s.

But despite my evening classes and my Girl Guide range of worthy preoccupations, it's hard to make new friends.

And while it is one thing for a novelist to have characteristic themes and preoccupations, it is another to plough the same furrow.