Sentence examples similar to preoccupy the first from inspiring English sources

While the idea of the Earth being flat preoccupied the first philosophers millennia ago, the question of whether the Universe itself is flat remains a debatable topic.

In this constitutional continuum, the tension between secularist constitutional democracy (Turkey) and Islamist constitutionalism (Iran, Libya) will likely preoccupy the Assembly in its first year of transitional governance.

Undergraduates rallying for Napster at famously socially concerned campuses seemed more preoccupied by the First Amendment, and by their age-appropriate critique of corporate entertainment monsters, than by the need to think hard about how artists should be compensated in the age of effortless digital reproduction.

Such issues are known to preoccupy the president.

The routine of alternating between the front line, being in support, and in reserve preoccupied the battalion until the Third Battle of Ypres in July 1917.

The delegates attending the convention of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees have been preoccupied with choosing the first president to head their union in three decades.

The regime is preoccupied with being the first country to land a man on the moon – or at least so it seems.

The question of eligibility to the first Presidency of the Portuguese Republic was one which greatly preoccupied the Constituent Assembly at Lisbon.

It is the question preoccupying the couple at the heart of this clever, honest show from Third Angel.

But Martí was also the first major writer to put his finger on the precise topic that has preoccupied the Latin American imagination ever since.

This is not what preoccupies the public".