Petro-addiction is in large measure an obsession with the automobile and mobility.
Both Andrew Ryan, the Ayn Rand-inspired objectivist villain from the first BioShock, and Zachary Comstock share one thing in common: an obsession with power.
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Now that we're exposed to less dirt and bacteria (thanks in part to our obsession with antibacterial everything), and have fewer scourges like polio and parasites to fight, our immune systems are quicker to overreact to otherwise harmless substances like pollen, says Levetin.
In the short run an obsession with austerity could make matters worse by deepening recession.
But after barely two years, hopes of a real dialogue are fading in the face of the obsession with Israel.
Many expect, perhaps too optimistically, that France's new leader will convince Angela Merkel of Germany to temper her obsession with austerity in the European economy.
In the realm of the literary arts, Mr. Magill has a field day, zeroing in on Rousseau as the source of our modern literary obsession with sincerity, which the author finds manifest in German and English Romanticism, American Transcendentalism, French Symbolism and other currents that come to look like a tidal wave in favor of finding and flaunting the unvarnished self.
In a week of obsession I could not come up with a suitable excuse but here, in a desperate moment, I came up with the perfect solution.
An obsession with the ways in which the history of Niagara Falls is a history of falsification, prevarication and omission.
More important, policymakers' obsession with cutting deficits in the short term has deflected attention from the more important question of how to do it.
News Corporation executives speak with bemusement or despair of the boss's obsession with what goes in his papers, down even to the placement of stories.
The ultimate expression of this obsession with weight sits in Goetz's shop: a 30-meter cabin cruiser made out of some of the same materials as Route 66.
Look back at Britain's industrial history with today's obsession with the Internet in mind, and you start to grasp at what may be the truest answer of all: that what went wrong with British manufacturing industry was not that it declined so fast, but that so much effort went into arresting that decline.
"My opinion, and I've worked in this field for a number of years, is that this obsession with shielding your territory is impossible to implement today or anytime in the near future, " Sergeyev said.
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Our obsession with causality is reflected in the authors seeing causality where none exists.
In 2004 he admitted he had an obsession with tackling speeding motorists.
As de Waal makes clear, the enormous advantages of high status are ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, and the obsession with sex is similarly universal.
Mahler's obsession with death surfaces early in this symphony.
Political experts said that in this era of celebrity worship and obsession with reality television stars, the ability to connect on some sort of personal level with everyday voters takes on heightened importance.
It was not until the election of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a soccer mad Corinthians fan, that the political will existed to reform the country's national obsession -- legislation followed in 2003 with mandatory relegation being introduced for the first time.
The court heard his "obsession" led to tension in his relationship with his alleged victim.
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Princeton Review sits in the sweet spot of America's obsession with testing.
If your obsession with Blomqvist and Salander is in an advanced stage, you may prefer the Swedish tour to the one in English.
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For some reason in this country we have some type of obsession with hoarding our money and forcing our children to take out loans.
There is something to this, but Japan's national obsession with quality was apparent early in its post-war industrialisation, when it adopted the teachings of W. Edwards Deming, an American quality-control guru.
Rameau's obsession with music apparently began early in life.
Reliance IMG (owned equally between the two partners) was formed in 2010 and has so far snatched rights to develop football and basketball in India, a country known for its obsession with cricket.
Managing for the variance, instead of the average, is the outcome of great project leadership: a search for the best ideas, leadership thoughtfulness, ambitiousness, a passion for the job at-hand, the assemblage of the right skills, obsession with details, and unreasonableness in the attempt to get the most out of the talent assembled, are all attributes characteristic of great teams, and of great leaders.
It's certainly true that we produce in order to consume, but since no entrepreneurs exist without capital, it could be argued that our obsession with cosmetic and mental wellness subtracts from the base of capital in economically harmful ways.
First seen on Broadway in 1994, "Passion" is a Proust-flavored, operatically intense musical whose central character, an unattractive and terminally ill woman named Fosca (Ms. Kuhn), develops an uncontrollable obsession with Giorgio (Ryan Silverman), a handsome young soldier who is in turn involved with Clara (Melissa Errico), a young married woman.
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