Sentence examples for was already preoccupied from inspiring English sources

But at the time, he was already preoccupied with the subject of financial risk.

Since the Justice Department was already preoccupied with the Microsoft case, the commission took the Intel case.

The music Van der Graaf Generator made as young men was already preoccupied with destruction and impermanence.

He was already preoccupied with thoughts of Game 5, which Oakland must play without its cleanup hitter, Jermaine Dye, who fractured his left leg when he fouled a ball off it in the third inning today.

It meant the country was already preoccupied by the in-custody death of a young African American man when Rankin took that early-morning 911 call and confronted 18-year-old William Chapman in the Walmart's vast car park.

"The government is already preoccupied by domestic issues".

Why do you burden us with this when we are already preoccupied with Mini-Den, Edith's pregnancy and the deathly pallor in Cousin Violet's face?

Since Musk is already preoccupied with his other projects, such as SpaceX and Tesla, he has made plans for Hyperloop open to the public allowing other entrepreneurs to make it a reality.

Actual voters, meanwhile, are already preoccupied with things like the September 2011 floods in eastern Uttar Pradesh and the unavailability of fertilizers for farmers in central Uttar Pradesh — and politicians are already talking about them as they campaign; but the national media doesn't seem to have devoted a single story to these subjects.

If Swiss came to grief, so would Zurich airport, and with it many of the 100,000 jobs that, directly or indirectly, depend on it.As it happens, the airport is already preoccupied with a more local problem that has raised a lot of hackles.

During teleoperation, the operator is already preoccupied with controlling the working robot and has to react to various changes in environment.