Sentence examples for the world's preoccupation from inspiring English sources

I.B.M. warned last year that the world's preoccupation with Year 2000 computer problems would hurt the company's earnings.

"The Israelis are exploiting the world's preoccupation with events in the U.S. to carry on with their crimes against the Palestinian people," said Yasir Abed Rabbo, a senior aide to Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader.

Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, has been calling for such an investigation for months, fearful that the world's preoccupation with the North's growing nuclear arsenal overshadowed discussions of a human rights situation she called "the worst in the whole world" in an interview with the news agency Reuters.

By exploiting the world's recent preoccupation with Islamist militancy, his vigorous diplomacy has done much to clear the country's reputation for abusing human rights.

The rest of the world's growing preoccupation with German art was demonstrated in the title of an exhibition in New York last year curated by Anke Kempkes and the British critic Michael Bracewell: Germany is Your America.

The publishing world's preoccupation with bullies does not end at the bookshelf.

You would think it would come up more often, considering the art world's preoccupation with youth, sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and horror movies.

MUCH of the outside world's preoccupation with China in recent years has been with that country's strengths: would a rich China be a threatening one, could such a China be absorbed comfortably in regional and global institutions, how much money might be made from selling goods to a billion richer Chinese, how many jobs lost to imports from that same productive billion?

Holding up a mirror to the creative industries, Designs of the Year is an annual barometer of the design world's preoccupations, anxieties and dreams – as well as a reminder of its conscience, with a welcome emphasis on useful problem-solving, rather than luxury sofas.

The preoccupation with the world's oldest profession.

For various reasons, football is a much lesser preoccupation in the world's giant countries than elsewhere.Though its presence in Brazil shows that America fields a decent national team, there are a number of other sports its citizens pay greater heed to; in India there is another sport so deep in the national psyche that football seems hardly to get a look in.