Sentence examples for preoccupation with problems from inspiring English sources

Süleyman failed to pursue his ambitions in Europe after 1541, largely because of his increasing preoccupation with problems in the East.

Liberal internationalist accounts of world order are motivated by more than just the traditional preoccupation with problems of war and peace.

Its preoccupation with internal problems helped spare it the worst of America's subprime-mortgage fiasco.

Assemblyman Wright, a Democrat, said the commission had stalled because of preoccupation with budget problems and political squabbling among Albany leaders, particularly under the combative former governor, Eliot Spitzer.

This preoccupation with the problems of historical relativity and what he called the logic of historical development found expression in a late but important work, Der Historismus und seine Probleme (1922; Historical Relativism and Its Problems).

Other elements, they said, included the preoccupation with economic problems; donor fatigue with natural disasters and the August vacation season when many people pay less attention to the news.

It was a move that opened the door to both a lifetime of study of the 19th century and an equally long-lasting preoccupation with the problems of the left.

London 2012 has been a source of almost frantic pessimism from pretty much the moment the Games were awarded, its progress towards readiness subjected to a distinctly British brand of roundhead miserabilism: the totting up of costs, the preoccupation with traffic problems, the minute cataloguing of infrastructure wastage.

Along these lines, Barry (2001), 2 has suggested that the technological society brings forth a "political preoccupation with the problems technology poses, with the potential benefits it promises, and with the models of social and political order it seems to make available".

Modern readers can still share his preoccupation with the problem of preserving the individual's integrity amid the pressures of mass civilization.

His Prometheus has been compared to the Book of Job of the Bible both in its structure (i.e., the immobilized ic figure maintaining his cause in dialogues with visitors) and in its preoccupation with the problem of suffering at the hands of a seemingly unjust deity.