Sentence examples for were preoccupied for from inspiring English sources

In the same way that former Senator Bob Dole was knocked off stride four years ago by mistakenly focusing on the challenge from Senator Phil Gramm, Bush advisers were preoccupied for more than a year with Mr. Forbes and his hefty war chest, and never seemed worried about Mr. McCain.

PNG's frenetic and fiercely patriotic social media commentators were preoccupied for days debating "impoverishment" - by whose values was it measured; what account did it take of connections to clan, land, tradition?

A lawyer and former diplomat, Aristegui has been preoccupied for many years with the rise of Islamic terror.

After Crantor the Academy was preoccupied for about two centuries with the serious questioning of human claims to knowledge.

Indeed, the philosophers and scholars of the time appear to have been preoccupied for a number of years with discussions on the nature and extent of the world.

Seeing the way the Iraqis are fighting back, Syrian officials profess confidence that the United States will be preoccupied for far too long to worry about Iraq's neighbors.

But what really annoyed him was that the other girl, in the throes of puppy love, was preoccupied for much of the weekend.

In addition to the political concerns, there were also pragmatic ones: many of the Goldman's highest-ranking executives, including Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chief executive, had been preoccupied for the last week in preparing for the Senate hearing.

By contrast, the central bank was preoccupied for much of 2010 with a pressing issue: whether inflation was so low that the economy threatened to tip into a deflationary cycle.

People in the finance world have been preoccupied for decades with whether — and how — executives should be held responsible for the fraudulent behavior of people who report to them.

Mr. Hancock, the son of a Baptist minister, has been preoccupied for some time with an outsize epic, the vegans vs. the meat-eating "mounds," whose characters are of animal, vegetal and mineral persuasion.