Sentence examples for preoccupy both from inspiring English sources

And now, as the 14th Dalai Lama journeys into his 74th year, the question of how to pick his successor has come to preoccupy both him and his followers, as Tibet stands at an ever more precarious political pass.

"Children of Hiroshima" is of interest partly because it is among the first films to address a subject that would preoccupy, both directly and obliquely, so much of postwar Japanese cinema.

The purpose of the reporting, on the basis of spurious claims, is to undermine my credibility and to distract and preoccupy both me and my office from the issue I have pursued since I became an MP.

That's the question that preoccupies both Masha and Jacob in this mostly diverting novel.

He was preoccupied both by Britain's dwindling overseas possessions and Egypt's Colonel Nasser, who refused to join up to the western-imposed Baghdad Pact.

McEwan, also a previous winner, had the handicap - in a contest preoccupied both with balance and with literary jealousies - of having taken it a mere three years ago with his book Amsterdam.

Friday's national security debate will take on a certain surreal quality, what with the financial crisis preoccupying both campaigns.

Enlightenment thinkers, preoccupied with both individual freedom and secular and limited government, argued that human reason is fallible.

In that situation we are back as hunter gatherers and become preoccupied by both our place in the pecking order and also become worried sexually," he says.

This year, the city has been preoccupied by both the auto industry problems and the decision of its popular mayor, Dennis Archer, not to seek a third term.

The story emerged from what has preoccupied me both as a person and as a writer for the past few years, which is the world of Los Angeles jails and criminal courts and California prisons, and who moves through these structures (needless to say, very poor people and people of color, disproportionately).