Sentence examples for some preoccupation from inspiring English sources

But in Anglo-America, while there was some preoccupation with it, it was not formalized until the passage of the General Allotment Act, mid-1880s.

These are given in no particular order, though there was some preoccupation with the "Communist threat" in Cyprus, and even President Kennedy (seen here with President Markarios in June 1962) was said to be taken with the island and the problem in the early days.

Golfers, for example, are a group who spend a great deal of time engaged in their hobby, invest heavily in new equipment and course fees, and probably experience some preoccupation and discomfort when forced to abstain from golf for a week or two.

"Prometheus" shares some preoccupations and visual motifs with the old shocker.

Parker's art does not often feel so obviously autobiographical, though her obsessions point to some preoccupations that have stayed with her from childhood.

We like our jobs.' I asked those women, 'If you had a daughter, would you want this for her?' " The women responded to Jones with some preoccupations of their own.

It seems that some preoccupations of the nurses such as salary, income and job insecurity have caused them to remain in the first and second category of basic needs as described by Maslow, so that they lack the required motivation and ability for professional cooperation and progress.

The best book club discussions include a moment when the author confesses he or she has been found out in some private preoccupation.

In his disorganized and somewhat annoying "Defamation," Yoav Shamir, an Israeli filmmaker, tries to stir up a tempest with the notions that "anti-Semitic" has become an all-purpose label for anyone who dares criticize Israel and that some Jews' preoccupation with the past — i.e., the Holocaust — is preventing progress in the here and now.

A song-and-dance show on Forty-sixth Street can occasionally touch so profoundly on some central preoccupation of a period that, even if relatively few of us actually get to see it live, it still becomes a kind of hearth at the center of a national celebration.

But it is exhaustingly chirpy, and has some baffling preoccupations.