Sentence examples for preoccupation not from inspiring English sources

Nor is this a matter solely of individual freedom, an American preoccupation not always shared elsewhere.

And, while the resolution is seen in the U.S. as targeting Google in particular and American companies in general, the language itself reflects a preoccupation not with the U.S. but with Europe's own difficulties.

This preoccupation not only charged the act of reading and writing with unusual significance but also produced, in To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931)—perhaps her most inventive and complex novel and Between the Acts (1941), her most sombre and moving work, some of the most daring fiction produced in the 20th century.

Thursday, January 29th The extent to which we've gone undetected on the Island is attributable in large part to The Others' preoccupation not only with themselves but with what we've theorized is the fulfillment of some cosmic mandate to enter numbers or characters into their BlackBerrys at strictly designated times, no matter what other activity they happen to be engaged in.

If you want to build companes and ride the wave of innovation, it's a 24/7 preoccupation — not just a lifestyle business.

His work reveals an intense preoccupation not only with contemporary Paraguay but with its history, looking back to the beginning of the 19th century and the rule of Dr. Gaspar de Francia (whose life is the focus of Yo, el Supremo).

Innocence and nostalgia, they remind us, were recurring themes in his work, and they suggest that these preoccupations — not unlike his fondness for old-fashioned television like "The Lawrence Welk Show" — represented a desire to turn back the clock, to retreat to the past (before the war, before his hospitalization for "battle fatigue," before his psyche was horribly scarred).

Samba speaks of Anzhi with the professional footballer's focused preoccupations, not judging the socio-economics of a billionaire owner, Suleiman Kerimov, funding millionaire wages for top players to entertain the people of Dagestan, a province blighted by poverty and, in October, floods which killed seven people.

Visits to Iran are still such a rarity, for British journalists at least, that there were other preoccupations: not least to get some sense of the state of the nation in the months before the 30th anniversary of Khomeini's revolution.

From a new Marxist perspective, Akhmatova's poetry was deemed to represent an introspective "bourgeois aesthetic", reflecting only trivial "female" preoccupations, not in keeping with these new revolutionary politics of the time.

Mr. Sehgal's preoccupation is not the invention and aesthetics of the actual movement.