Sentence examples for question that preoccupies from inspiring English sources

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

It's a question that preoccupies Alison, the middle-aged narrator of Mary Gaitskill's "Veronica" (2005), one of the great American novels of the past decade.

Then, consider the climate and the question that preoccupies many people: has global warming changed the climate forever, not just melting ice caps but also threatening birds on British moors?

Chisholm writes: "One question that preoccupies us mere observers is why Highfield is still heading a media business which seems to be underperforming against any peer benchmark, and in particular one with particularly low digital credentials".

That entails not just human costs but economic ones, too.The question that preoccupies Klaus Desmet of the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg of Princeton University in a new NBER working paper* is whether there are ways to manage the impact of changing weather patterns by moving the location of economic activity.

It is just possible to imagine that the former Viscount Stansgate regards the former Mr Heath as a technocrat at heart, not very interested in the democratic questions that preoccupy him; and that, in return, Benn is regarded as a bit of a gadfly.

But how long these two worlds can coexist in such proximity without inflaming violence is a question that increasingly preoccupies the top management of ChevronTexaco.

It's a question that has preoccupied the American photographer Penelope Umbrico for the past five years, and her project "Suns" is the luminous result.

This is a question that has preoccupied me as I watched the tensions between Kampala and Soroti – often expressed in off-the-record comments made by local leaders.

America's third-biggest commercial bank, BankAmerica, is buying it for $540m.The deal immediately answers one question that has preoccupied Wall Street: whether the multiples paid for specialist investment banks are too high.

Called "Stone Ihiga, Ms. Mutuu's performance, her first live work, finds its start in a question that has preoccupied her for years: How does it feel to be a woman sentenced to death by stoning?