Sentence examples for preoccupied with duties from inspiring English sources

Despite the years her husband spent in the chamber, Mrs. Dole said many aspects were new to her because she was often preoccupied with duties as a cabinet member or as head of the Red Cross.

'These other activities consume much of our time and instead our normal duties do not bear results in good time as we are preoccupied with other duties'.

He had been too preoccupied with the duties imposed on him by the collective European psyche.

Lucas Leiva and Hernanes found themselves preoccupied with defensive duties until the close of the match, as did Maxwell, who assumed more of a defensive role than his counterpart Marcelo.

If at all possible, schedule your reflexology session on a day when you are not busy and won't be preoccupied with other duties and responsibilities.

5 35 36 However, practitioners are often too preoccupied with their clinical duties to be able to respond to patient complaints.

This study highlighted that the reasons said by males for not to accompany their partners on ANC visit were: the belief that it is a woman's duty, being preoccupied with work, and a feeling of embarrassment.

Among the 1323 respondents, men said that the reasons for not to accompanied their partners on antenatal visit were: the feeling that this is a woman's duty (53.0%), they were preoccupied with other tasks (29.3%), they were embarrassed (15.0%), and they had a lack of knowledge (2.7%) (table not shown).

When Schmidt gave him balloon duty he wanted to go all out, but he was so preoccupied with the porta potty he hadn't realized he needs propane to get the balloons up in the air.

When he was not preoccupied with undermining his own authority with jokes and anarchistic play, Bob perceived that it was his duty to mold and forge in each of his intellectual children the same intuitions and practice of rigor, intellectual honesty, and amazement with place cells, that Bob understood had been effectively perfected in his own person.

She's preoccupied with age.