Corporate boards will be preoccupied with risk management or, as it will be fashionable to say, early warning.
In the coming weeks Mr Abe will be preoccupied with a cabinet reshuffle, even bringing in heavyweights from enemy factions if they can be persuaded.
His point was that policymakers should not be preoccupied with the absolute level of national debt, but instead with our ability to sustain whatever level of debt we have.
It is suggested that the UN is unable to achieve this as it would be preoccupied with ensuring everyone has a say and therefore that nothing actually gets done.
Mr. PESCHARD-SVERDRUP: That's one of the risks, that at the end of the day it ends up creating high expectations at a time when, you know, President Obama's going to be preoccupied with other very pressing priorities, primarily the economy.
The start of the second term is likely to be preoccupied with more of the same: International efforts to remove al-Qaeda-linked rebels from the north of Mali - by force or negotiation or both - and efforts to ensure that Zimbabwe and Kenya avoid repeating the violence that wrecked their last elections.
But he still fears that the United States may be so preoccupied with fighting terrorism that it will be loth to get stuck into Middle East peacemaking at the same time.
One was that they would always be too preoccupied with national interest to pursue a true European course.
Meanwhile, disillusioned Ukrainians fear that the new government will be as preoccupied with nest-feathering and back-stabbing as the old one.
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It begins in a small way and builds up to the point at which people can be totally preoccupied with it.
We have been doing everything we can to get the Sudanese government to act responsibly, so let us not be too preoccupied with this designation.
As concerns about deflation retreat for the moment, investors are now likely to be more preoccupied with a potential squeeze on companies' operating margins, based on the economic data reported by the U.S. Commerce Department over the past two days.
In a year's time, he will surely be even more preoccupied with the ballot box, and more loth to undertake bold reform.
W. Bush proves himself out of touch when admiring the price scanner at a checkout line, Brown comes off as a relic from a lost counterculture when he asks a college class if anyone has heard of Marshall McLuhan. (Brown also appears to be the candidate most preoccupied with the position of his necktie.) The movie has one tactic, one thought, one note.
Then again, it could be that Redmond is more preoccupied with Android nowadays.
Grandparents grumble that youngsters today are too preoccupied with PlayStations to be scared by the witches who roam the slopes outside their bedroom windows.
They tend to be individuals with an anxious or "preoccupied" attachment style according to attachment theory, which psychologists developed starting in the mid-1900s.
The essence of evangelism is winning converts -- but that goal can be easily forgotten when you're preoccupied with playing to the base.
"They may be just testing the Japanese since they are preoccupied with the island issue" in the East China Sea, said James Hardy, a senior analyst for Asian Pacific region with Jane's Defense Weekly.
Dr. Turkle has previously stated that children often feel hurt and may be reluctant to discuss it when their parents are preoccupied with smart phone technology.
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And these people wouldn't necessarily be in favour of a Republican Party that's preoccupied with making the world a better and more secure place for those who are already very wealthy.
But, in a world preoccupied with the war in Kosovo, will anyone be listening?
Are our government leaders too preoccupied with our current problems and partisan politics to be thinking of this entire scenario?
You can be sure that President Obama would welcome an America in which the Republican Party is preoccupied with remaking itself into a watered-down version of the Democrats.
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One is timing: the Chinese leadership is preoccupied with its forthcoming party congress, and it is no time for an ambitious Chinese politician to be seen to be giving in to western demands.
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