Sentence examples for who preoccupied from inspiring English sources

Another taped rant against Crusaders, Zionists and apostate Muslim rulers, purportedly delivered by Osama bin Laden, reminded America and its allies that the enemy who preoccupied them before the war in Iraq remains bent on their downfall.

But it was Grant, not Twain, who preoccupied me during my stay in Galena.

In the latest salvo in the debate, Saudi Sheikh Abdel Rahman Al-Barrak warned in a fatwa, a religious opinion, that soccer "played according to (accepted international rules) has caused Muslims to adopt some of the customs of the enemies of Islam, who are (preoccupied with) games and frivolity".

The predominative nature of this asset has been well stated by Pierce Egan, the Edward Gibbon and Sir Thomas Malory of the old London prize ring, who was less preoccupied than Broun with ultimate implications.

In "The Gift of Giving," a woman, desperate and homeless, trails a group of people who are so preoccupied with finding a place to make donations to disaster relief that they are oblivious to her pleas.

This slim volume of eight stories with recurring characters (which Mr Oz has referred to as a novel) is alive with individuals who are less preoccupied with "The Situation"—as Israelis call the regional conflict than with other more universal concerns.

The girl who is so preoccupied she does not perform well in school.

It made him seem preoccupied, like someone who knows he has lost something and can't remember what it is.

There are seven members of the Weiss family: the preoccupied father, who is a sportswriter; the rather too angelic mother; and the children, Ben, Jude, Jemima, Harriet and Gus.

6th over: South Africa 417-1 (Smith 187, Kirsten 35) Another costly over from Anderson who appears a little preoccupied with his run-up now.

The second is a woman with big breasts who seems to be preoccupied or angry for a reason that B will never discover.