Sentence examples for preoccupied- from inspiring English sources

"Rouhani was quite preoccupied with the nuclear issue since his presidency began, and he neglected a lot of social issues meanwhile so now with the nuclear issue being solved, maybe he'll have time for other issues such as the continued house arrests of opposition leaders".

But by the middle of the 18th century, as print culture expanded and literacy increased, some of those most preoccupied with "glory", "credit" and "posterity" were wealthy, powerful or famous married women who resented that their names would die with them.

Some seem more preoccupied with insisting that people like me are really men.

He looks what he is – ascetic, intellectual and preoccupied with life's moral dilemmas Not with Miller himself.

Dressing in order to be taken seriously indicates that the spectre of older, more explicit forms of sexism still hovers over us: a woman who adopts a more feminine style is too preoccupied with pretty things to be a serious academic, because a woman can't be both attractive and intelligent – if indeed she can be intelligent at all.

Dallas have four points from their opening two games, and if last week's draw at an understandably preoccupied Sporting KC didn't necessarily tell us a lot, this week's match up may have us taking a little more notice of one of these sides when it's over.

He looks what he is – ascetic, intellectual and preoccupied with life's moral dilemmas.

The country has allowed itself to become more preoccupied with hosting major sporting events than with winning them.

If they had they would have found him as dovish as Mr Bernanke or Ms Yellen, all of whom are far more preoccupied with unemployment than inflation.

But local officials are more preoccupied with revving up the economy of Huimin, whose dreary main street enjoys a burst of colour from the frontage of a 24-hour McDonald's.

All this has seemed deliberately designed to raise the spectre in Iraq-preoccupied America of a two-front crisis, and so increase the pressure on President George Bush to negotiate.In this section Expecting trouble?