Sentence examples for preoccupying concern from inspiring English sources

But the German-American rift was the deeper and preoccupying concern of this meeting, and not just because the German position on Iraq virtually ensures that the NATO alliance as an institution will sit out any Iraq campaign as it sat out the American-led attack on Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan.

Fighting the gender war seemed to be a preoccupying concern, too, of Mark Steyn's November 19 article in the National Review, in which he denounced the proponents of nanny-state big government - "Hillary & Co" prominent among them - for having de-balled American men in the air just as they had on the ground.

Preventing a repeat of the fighting has become a preoccupying concern for Israelis, Palestinians and world powers alike.

We presume that in late pregnancy, anxiety may be more related to fear of childbirth, with the infant's health being a key preoccupying concern.

This study investigated the effects of weight loss dieting on the components of working memory and the extent to which these effects were mediated by preoccupying cognitions concerning food, diet and body shape.

I was too preoccupied to concern myself with the game's future".

PARIS — Late last week, Nicolas Sarkozy said, "The question of a possible second presidential term while I'm at the halfway point is laughable if you consider the concerns preoccupying the French people and myself.

More immediate concerns were preoccupying a second group of children whom we met at the Abdulfattah Hamoud school, one of dozens of public buildings that were pressed into service as shelters for families displaced by the violence.

Mothers concerned with eating disorders (more preoccupied with "shape concerns" or "food preoccupations") had less dyadic reciprocity with their infant.

Jessica Stockton Bagnulo, an owner of Greenlight Bookstore, said that one customer in particular who came in on Tuesday was preoccupied with that concern.

But the stories that preoccupy Chris concern Roza's father, who was a Chetnik, then a Communist partisan, then a secret policeman in Tito's Yugoslavia.