Strong curriculum standards and professional development consumed the union's attention and resources.

He kept turning his gaze away from the map, looking over at the area that momentarily consumed his attention.

By itself the attack on Captain Vertigus would have been enough to consume all her attention.

But he could not afford to think about her; the peril of the stairs consumed his attention.

But over time, even a trivial itch begins to consume your attention.

While their social and economic circumstances are anything but identical, the landscape that consumes their attention is the same.

The seventeenth century consumed my attention until nearly midnight.

September 11th was a tragedy that, in the years that followed, tragically consumed the nation's attention.

For more than a month, Clinton's debauchery and deceit have consumed journalists' attention.

The shrouded figure consumed his attention, filled his mind.