Sentence examples for preoccupation over from inspiring English sources

Capello's preoccupation over the next few days is whether he sticks with Heskey and whether he can plan a defence that is capable of compensating for King's absence.

It is a wry invitation to trace how such themes have been a preoccupation over five decades of groundbreaking performance art.

In her concern and preoccupation over how we might handle the class and lifestyle differences in the EDU, she neglected to mention that her room-mate in the hospital was my exact age.

Over the last decade, the preoccupation over the use of electronic means of communication as a tool to convey hate, racist and xenophobic contents rose tremendously.

One recent course of action by Obama has paid off, in our longest conflict, Afghanistan -- overlooked by our current preoccupation over other global calamities.

Anxiety may stem from preoccupation over possible violations of routines and rituals, from being placed in a situation without a clear schedule or expectations, or from concern with failing in social encounters; the resulting stress may manifest as inattention, withdrawal, reliance on obsessions, hyperactivity, or aggressive or oppositional behavior.

Are you conscious of returning to certain preoccupations over time?

Instead, its recurring preoccupations over the years have included the Soviets, Ross Perot, and "Beavis and Butt-head" (a pair that always mattered more to adults than to kids).

A. Richard Turner, an expert on the Florentine Renaissance whose landmark 1993 study, "Inventing Leonardo," traced the protean outlines of Leonardo da Vinci through his interpreters and their preoccupations over the last 500 years, died on Sept. 9 in Cape May Court House, N.J.

He looked at me and I looked back at him and an expression of puzzlement, of preoccupation came over his face and I was wondering what he was thinking about, what you think about at that moment, when the vet said: "That's it now".

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