Sentence examples for would preoccupy from inspiring English sources

Ballet dancers and women at their toilette would preoccupy him throughout his career.

They also point to the artist's turn toward figuration, which would preoccupy her in the 1960s.

"Children of Hiroshima" is of interest partly because it is among the first films to address a subject that would preoccupy, both directly and obliquely, so much of postwar Japanese cinema.

Though not a very good play, it showed a natural bent for the theatre and embodied themes the rebellious hero, his destructive mistress that would preoccupy Ibsen as long as he lived.

The 84-page paper sheds light on an aspect of political life that would preoccupy Mr. Gore in his career in public office and into the current presidential campaign.

And, he argued, a new hunt would preoccupy the wildlife division and detract from nonlethal bear-control programs he favors, including enforcing bans on feeding bears and teaching homeowners in bear country, which is in northwestern New Jersey, better ways to keep bears from household garbage.

Fukuda returned to Hong Kong with the same troubling question that would eventually preoccupy his colleagues in Thailand.

However, every time he started, Caroline would become preoccupied with something work-related and Andy would be shot down.

First, what does it say about the judgment of a parent — father or mother — who takes on tasks that will necessarily keep that parent away from family and preoccupied (at least I would hope preoccupied) with the state of our country, at a time when two of the five children in that family are in particular and poignant need of special attention?

Louis sent his forces into the Palatinate with the promised support of King James II of England and in the expectation that Louis's inveterate opponent, William of Orange, stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, would be preoccupied with his coming attempt to overthrow James and would thus be neutralized as an opponent of the French on the European continent.

I would never enjoy the service or anything for I would be preoccupied with how to avoid my outer clothes being wet.