What were they obsessed with in the early '80s? They were obsessed with mustard.

This was his horseradish. He was obsessed with it!

And it's good reason for them to be obsessed with the idea of universals, because all of science, through the 19th century and much of the 20th, was obsessed with universals.

And the third is the result of our media culture, obsessed as it is with putting a face to events.

In particular, they were obsessed with the story of Grey Poupon. Right?

PRINCETON Worried investors and policymakers are becoming obsessed with Great Depression analogies.

They were so obsessed with protecting the country that they destroyed it.

As a young magician I was obsessed with Houdini and his underwater challenges.

Golden section, I've been obsessed with this thing since before I was born.

She began singing at age four and asserts that she became obsessed with voices.

Latin America is obsessed with this transition, and Uribe, Calderón, and Lula have no intention of letting Chávez lead the way.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

But he was obsessed with the notion of expanding the executive powers of the president.

I am obsessed with the person I love and worried about losing him. Nothing in me is healthy, if it is correct to say so.

That is no surprise, as European central bankers are the most conventional in their thinking and have been the most obsessed with inflation.

Chinese rulers, to this day, have been obsessed with central control, continental unity, and social harmony that is, a society without political conflict.

Nonetheless, we know very little of that country, because all vital information is restricted to a small group of leaders obsessed with secrecy.

He said the following, he said Why are we so obsessed and focused with gross domestic product?

At the Cold War s end, Japan remained obsessed with Russia as the heir to the Soviet Union.

But it looks as if Sarkozy, once obsessed with gaining power, has progressively lost touch with reality since achieving his goal.

WARWICK, UK Nowadays, in country after country, policymakers have become obsessed with the need to strengthen science education.

And I failed. I went through a phase where I became obsessed with my mother s killers. Who were they?

Christine Boutin's tweet I am officially ashamed of these former ministers that suggest men are only obsessed with sex.

In a money obsessed society, the only way to restrain this proclivity is by externally imposed sanctions.

To businessmen, engineers are practical problem solvers, whereas lawyers are obsessed with procedural complexities and intent on exploiting contractual loopholes.

And so glaciers are these magnificent beings, and there's lots of reasons to be obsessed with them, but what I'm particularly interested in is in human glacier relations.

LONDON Unlike some in Britain s Conservative Party, Prime Minister David Cameron has not previously given the impression of being obsessed with Europe.

If Poland were less unjustifiably afraid of its future, it would be less obsessed with a past that will not pass away.

And yet India constantly measures itself against China, remains obsessed with Pakistan, and has recently begun to look more critically at its relationship with the US.

I personally obsessed about every nut, bolt and washer in these crazy things.

China remains obsessed with investing construction of factories and infrastructure accounted for 41 of GDP and around half of economic growth in 2005.

But that does not mean that we must become literally obsessed with terrorism at the expense of losing sight of broader historical challenges.

ANKARA Nowadays, the international media are obsessed with the question of who lost Turkey and what that supposed loss means for Europe and the West.

Think tank pundits, obsessed with the permutations of issues surrounding US forces deployment in the world s trouble spots, have concluded that the rising Sunni violence, too, is related to the US troop withdrawal.

Yet, while the Chinese clearly understand these contingencies and are preparing themselves to deal with them diplomatically and militarily, the Kremlin remains myopically obsessed with the phantom threat of America.

Yet, despite this spending shortfall, Putin seems obsessed with making pointless and provocative gestures, such as resuming long range nuclear bomber flights off the American coast.

However obsessed international opinion may be with Gaza s agony, to most Israelis the Palestinian problem seems to be happening on the dark side of the moon.

Occasions to laugh or smile have been few and far between during the current French presidential election campaign, which has been obsessed with recession, unemployment, xenophobia.

And so in my lifetime, a lot of what's happened in the world and being a person obsessed with food a lot of this has really changed.

Indeed, Zidane s status as an emblematic champion of the world s most universal and popular sport does not fully explain why people have been so obsessed with him.

They perceive Americans and Europeans as being obsessed with money and material ambition, and they seem ready to accept some stagnation as the price of remaining truly Japanese.

Not because it's hard to make interesting mustard you can make interesting mustard but people don't because no one's obsessed with it, and thus no one tells their friends.

Europeans continue to look inward, obsessed with their own problems of declining competitiveness and how to pay for entitlements that they have come to regard as theirs by right.

As a result, he has become obsessed with micromanaging everything from troop movements and special events to postings and promotions, all of which require his personal stamp of approval.

It seems these people are obsessed with order, to the extent that a joke says that the British, when they find two people one behind another, think there is a queue and start to stand behind these two.