Sentence examples for preoccupied with the issue of from inspiring English sources

"He was preoccupied with the issue of faith and existentialism way before the 1950s.

Their democratic opposition, preoccupied with the issue of bringing Rome and Venetia into the new state, offered little resistance to these centralizing and authoritarian tendencies.

Around the same time, Chomsky became preoccupied with the issue of America's supplying of weapons to Indonesia when the Indonesian government was killing thousands of people in East Timor.

Charles was meanwhile preoccupied with the issue of Martin Luther, whom he confronted at the Diet of Worms in March 1521.

But is there any hard evidence to show that news coverage is preoccupied with the issues and interests of the small slice of society that journalists represent?

Some industry executives are preoccupied with the more urgent issue of survival, while others believe that the European airlines have more to gain than they do.

Republicans pushed for the financialization of the economy, while Democrats became preoccupied with the kinds of social issues which were appealing to campus liberals, but irrelevant to the white working class.

In effect, while invoking the Helsinki Final Act of 1975, they are calling for further confrontation, and propose measures that are unrealistic given the current climate in Europe, when E.U. member states are preoccupied with the resolution of domestic issues.

"People are preoccupied with the bigger issues," said Frederick Rowe Jr., a hedge fund manager and president of Investors for Director Accountability which has sought to curb excessive pay.

Learning that other parents are preoccupied with the same issues and concerns can increase the parent's feelings of confidence.

Though occasionally consumed by campus esoterica, most of the columns show that Mr. Lieberman in college was an early version of Mr. Lieberman in Congress: preoccupied with the same kinds of issues that he would later grapple with as Connecticut's attorney general, a United States senator and vice-presidential candidate.