Its commitment to propping up the Gorbachev regime in particular and its preoccupation with promoting "stability" in international relations in general animate a desire to authorize some additional underwriting of Soviet commodity purchases.
Such activities have largely been ignored in the Western preoccupation with the Soviet Union's more benign overt diplomatic campaigns.
What Madame Speaker's Iraq and Syria initiatives have in common is a preoccupation with handing the Bush Administration strategic defeats for domestic political gain, without regard for the predictable and probably high costs of such behavior to the nation.
Security measures in Kashgar hardly suggest a preoccupation with terrorism, but rather an attempt to keep the population cowed.
In politics , there might be less preoccupation with the budget deficit and more thought given to the root causes: slow economic growth and the cancer of foreign outsourcing.
He put up the money to start the group and wrote the first pamphlets, but he upset some members with his preoccupation with bumps, interest in the occult and passion for bright clothes.
In one sense, Mr Murdoch's preoccupation with satellite is odd.
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The stage veterans are often exasperated by what they see as an international preoccupation with questions of freedom and censorship in their country.
One major test came one year ago, when a deadly high-speed rail collision outside the eastern city of Wenzhou prompted questions online and even in the state media over whether China's preoccupation with growth had led to investment at the expense of safety.
But if you believe that alcoholism is defined by a preoccupation with drinking, a steady increase in the amount you need to drink in order to get the same effect, and an inability to give it up -- and most in the medical profession do -- then more and more women fit the profile quite nicely, though often come to the realization on their own.
Birmingham Safeguarding Children's Board was also criticised by Ofsted for its preoccupation with the 20 SCRs it has undertaken in the past four years, at the expense of providing professional leadership.
In fact, the appointments seemed as much to reflect his own preoccupation with livelihood issues over politics.
Mr. Gates also is driving the armed services to drop their traditional preoccupation with conventional wars and focus on counterinsurgencies like those in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Fourth, the United States must be clearly able to project power in two distant theaters simultaneously in order to prevent a second adversary from taking advantage of our preoccupation with a first .
But Montgomerie accepts that the modern preoccupation with sports analytics means that there are precious few eccentrics in today's game.
In management , firms might spend less time on the 20th Century preoccupation with improving efficiency rather than on the 21st Century challenge of generating customer delight through continuous innovation.
Dale Bathum developed a preoccupation with footwear as a kid, when his wide feet hurt in running shoes.
In part, argues Mr Ben-Ami, this reflected a wider Palestinian preoccupation with vindication and justice, at the expense of a pragmatic search for a solution.
In some countries, repression has not notably increased but the world's preoccupation with security, and America's need for allies, have given governments a freer hand to crush dissent.
Mr Brown's preoccupation with stability also constrains his efforts at redistribution: he has in effect forbidden himself from spending more on the poor unless he has the wherewithal to finance it.
This preoccupation with physical stature, which was punctuated so perfectly by steroid scandals in pro sports, is thought by many to have been a reaction to hird-wave feminism, one of the most influential gender movements in history.
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Yet America's main preoccupation in the longer run will be China, suggests Karsten Voigt, co-ordinator of relations with America at the German foreign ministry.
Our preoccupation with short-term, self-interest is causing us to be out of balance in our giving and receiving with each other.
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Although President Clinton regularly caricatures critics of his Bosnia initiative as isolationists, it can reasonably be argued that his own preoccupation with domestic policy and his general indifference to international affairs contributed greatly to the unchecked carnage in Bosnia over the past three years.
Released in 2004, the album was by turns smooth, humorous and sharp and largely avoided the cliched hip-hop preoccupation with guns, girls and jewellery.
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