Consumed in example sentence

But, should an obvious case for action arise in Iraq, we should not be so consumed by the desire not to repeat the misguided intervention in 2003, that we fail – as we did in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and so often elsewhere – to respond as our common humanity demands.

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We have only been discussing and consumed with high-level preoccupations over troop levels, drawdown timelines, surges and sting operations, when we should be examining the details of where the social fabric has been most torn, where the community has improvised and survived and shown acts of resilience and amazing courage just to keep life going.

We have been so consumed with seemingly objective discussions of politics, tactics, weapons, dollars and casualties.

I was forcing things to change because I was consumed by the need to succeed or to prove myself.

And tragically in [2003], a scientist was taken down and drowned, and she was being consumed by a leopard seal.

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