Sentence examples similar to preoccupied state from inspiring English sources

Gov. George Pataki and New York State legislative leaders have understandably been preoccupied with state and national politics.

The Labour party did not come into the world as an economistic left party preoccupied with state remedies; nor with a remote cosmopolitan bent that surrendered talk of place, home and nation.

Not since Reconstruction have Democrats been so preoccupied with states' rights.

First, what does it say about the judgment of a parent — father or mother — who takes on tasks that will necessarily keep that parent away from family and preoccupied (at least I would hope preoccupied) with the state of our country, at a time when two of the five children in that family are in particular and poignant need of special attention?

As he noted, race continues to preoccupy many state officials.

It's more preoccupied with the state of her marriage than it the state of the world, overshadowed by her husband Jay Z's alleged infidelity.

Still, some public officials have welcomed it, especially those preoccupied with the state of the economy.

Writing from their rented villa just outside Marrakech in mid-December, Eileen is understandably preoccupied by the state of Orwell's chest.

One county administration adviser said that the Legislature had been preoccupied with the state budget and reapportionment, and predicted that Nassau's turn would come soon.

In the light of this, is it fair to brand him a 'somatiser', excessively preoccupied with the state of his body?

What kind of novel would "A Passage to India" be if Mrs. Moore were preoccupied by the state of her dewlaps?