Sentence examples for world preoccupations from inspiring English sources

Re "Embrace Your Age, and Conquer the World" (Preoccupations, Sept. 15), about how older people are perceived in the workplace: I never understood why people, particularly women, tend to shave years off their age.

In the Arab world, public preoccupation with the bloodshed in the Palestinian territories -- in which more than 120 people have died, all but 8 of them Arabs -- has set off mass demonstrations and open calls for war.

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

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

Franzen's world-historical preoccupations also shape, though less delicately, his big account of the home front — the seething national peace that counter­poises the foreign war.

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.

"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.

Because this has been his world, his preoccupation, for so long, and because he is so keen not to simplify issues, or blame unnecessarily, it's tricky, initially, to tune in – at first it seems all trees and no wood.

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.

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?