Sentence examples for to develop a preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Lastly, this finding may extend our understanding of some men's proclivity to develop a preoccupation with stimuli depicting optimally designed women (e.g., pornography)[44], [45].

These people often develop a preoccupation with amputation, and in some cases resort to self-administered surgery.

Frequently these people develop a preoccupation with the Internet, a need for escape to the Internet and increasing irritability when trying to cut back their Internet use.

Away from music, Grainger's preoccupation with Nordic culture led him to develop a form of English which, he maintained, reflected the character of the language before the Norman conquest.

Weber's preoccupation with the importance of economic calculation led him to develop a critique of socialism as a system that lacked a mechanism for allocating resources efficiently in order to satisfy human needs.

The Bush Administration failed to develop a comprehensive Iran policy during its first term because of interagency disagreements and its preoccupation with the Iraq War.

The preoccupation with integration is increasingly being skewed at a policy level by the government's desperate desire to develop a strategy to deal with terrorism.

Last year a teenage girl from my senior school committed suicide after a preoccupation with weight and body image prompted her to develop an eating disorder.

Forensic records of Adam's online activity show that, in his late teens, he developed a preoccupation with mass murder.

As a 15-year-old, he remembers reading Charles Ross's seminal biography of the late monarch and developing a preoccupation with Richard III, whose body had lain undiscovered for centuries.

Mr. Gates has developed a preoccupation with genealogy and helping black people reconstruct histories that were buried by the enslavement of people from Africa and by generations of illiteracy, families torn apart and exclusion from official records.