Sentence examples for taken up with problems from inspiring English sources

His brief reign was taken up with problems he inherited from the quarrel of his predecessor, Boniface VIII, with King Philip IV the Fair of France and the King's allies (the Colonna family of Rome).

Most of 1938 was taken up with practical problems and development of ASV.

Too much of this book is taken up with routine problem-solving advice and over-familiar stories repackaged by Dubner as though they were revelations.

"Putin wants the United States to be taken up with its own problems, and forget about things like Ukraine and Crimea," Sergei Parkhomenko, an activist and broadcaster for Echo of Moscow, told me.

The static problem corresponding to a uniform transverse loading is solved first and the dynamic problem is subsequently taken up with the known deflection field.

Much of the play is taken up with Jamie's private panic-attacks and professional problems.

For a relatively simple problem that is not particularly computationally intensive, the majority of the clock time for the simulation session is taken up with overhead.

As in other schools across the country, teachers at Whitko find that much of their time is taken up dealing with problems that have little to do with education ("We don't teach anymore," Phillips commented on several occasions, "we parent"), and they have become adept at looking for the bruises or body language that might indicate abuse or turmoil in the home.

Autumn in New York Charlotte (Winona Ryder), a dewy young woman with a heart problem, takes up with Will (Richard Gere), a slightly notorious, crinkly eyed celebrity restaurateur 26 years her senior.

And no, Shane certainly didn't take up with Mickey that he had a problem with how we as a leadership group dealt with it.

Corrections officials maintain that the reason is often problems at home — a girlfriend takes up with someone else; a mother falls ill.