Sentence examples for preoccupied the from inspiring English sources

The 1994 genocide still preoccupied the nation.

Moreover, the rapid growth of television preoccupied the country.

But lately the Sylver matters have preoccupied the administration.

Indeed, perhaps it mirrored, in its stylistic tension, the external strife that preoccupied the country.

Japan's national debt has not preoccupied the world the way Europe's has.

The predicaments of the parentless or the barely parented have historically preoccupied the novelist Sheila O'Connor.

Thus preoccupied, the brain may not consciously register actions witnessed by the eyes.

If one question preoccupied the thinking classes of the 1830s more than another it was time.

But it was the everyday deaths back in Haiti that still preoccupied the survivors.

That issue has preoccupied the Security Council members more than the risks posed by Iraq's arsenal.

Even as problems in Europe preoccupied the leaders, officials reported positive developments in some poorer parts of the world.