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.
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.
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.
They tend to be individuals with an anxious or "preoccupied" attachment style according to attachment theory, which psychologists developed starting in the mid-1900s.
Grandparents grumble that youngsters today are too preoccupied with PlayStations to be scared by the witches who roam the slopes outside their bedroom windows.
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.
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.
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.
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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The essence of evangelism is winning converts -- but that goal can be easily forgotten when you're preoccupied with playing to the base.
Corporate boards will be preoccupied with risk management or, as it will be fashionable to say, early warning.
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.
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