German engineers, who focus squarely on the driving experience, couldn't understand the Americans' preoccupation with beverages.
Her mother's preoccupation with her own appearance set an example that nagged Lee through adulthood.
In fact, the appointments seemed as much to reflect his own preoccupation with livelihood issues over politics.
The organizations start losing money and hence go out of business, until a preoccupation with efficiency re-emerges.
True, a preoccupation with the relative merits of various types of decorative sticky tape is not for everyone.
Dale Bathum developed a preoccupation with footwear as a kid, when his wide feet hurt in running shoes.
His preoccupation with Unefon financing allowed rival Televisa to come back with a string of successful nighttime shows.
His preoccupation with financing Unefon allowed rival Televisa to come back with a string of successful nighttime shows.
Corporate America's newfound preoccupation with energy costs has made efficiency a hot business.
This led to a discussion of today's operatic preoccupation with singers' physical allure.
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Dr Williams was also wasted because of the Church's preoccupation with its divisions.
Such activities have largely been ignored in the Western preoccupation with the Soviet Union's more benign overt diplomatic campaigns.
Libertarians dislike them for their preoccupation with using the state to impose virtue.
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But Montgomerie accepts that the modern preoccupation with sports analytics means that there are precious few eccentrics in today's game.
Aziz said that his country's neighbors don't share the U.S. preoccupation with whether Iraq has amassed weapons of mass destruction.
Bank supervisors, because of their preoccupation with systemic risk, have tended to be quite tolerant of anti-competitive behaviour by banks.
To be sure, there are significant lessons for business here, underscored by our current public preoccupation with transparency and accountability.
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For fans, Al Thani's apparent preoccupation with conforming to UEFA's new laws could not have come at a worse time.
The reasons for this are not clear but a contributing factor has been the preoccupation with brick and mortar expansion.
The preoccupation with technologies directed at creating alternatives to hydrocarbons misses how technology also unleashes alternative sources of hydrocarbons themselves.
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Renault boss Flavio Briatore once bemoaned the sport's preoccupation with technological minutiae.
The cutout technique itself builds upon the artist's careerlong preoccupation with color.
The wiser ones admit that America's preoccupation with Iraq helped Mr Arafat.
"After the baby, I got bigger, and I like it, " she said, adding, almost reflexively, a digression on our culture's preoccupation with weight.
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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.
Lieberman said that there was a growing sense that the media preoccupation with sex and violence was having a harmful effect on America's children.
But his recurring preoccupation with writing and reading and books strikes home, and it is here that he contrasts most sharply with Ms Fadiman.
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.
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