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"preoccupied" Definitions
  1. preoccupied (with something) thinking and/or worrying continuously about something so that you do not pay attention to other things
"preoccupied" Synonyms
distracted abstracted absent-minded oblivious distrait heedless pensive absent absentminded absorbed brooding faraway intent lost unaware engrossed immersed rapt airheaded anxious concerned obsessed absorbed in engrossed in intent on interested in involved in passionate about focused on immersed in sunk in taken up wrapped up in passionate fixated engaged occupied involved enthralled busy deep consumed captivated riveted focused(US) gripped attentive focussed(UK) intrigued interested fascinated fanatical hooked mesmerised(UK) mesmerized(US) hypnotised(UK) hypnotized(US) infatuated besotted devoted smitten intense possessed beset plagued tormented controlled dominated haunted troubled cursed flustered hounded mad overcome seized tortured affected bedeviled(US) bemused confused bewildered puzzled baffled stupefied dazed muddled mystified perplexed stumped stunned befuddled nonplussed fuddled thrown clueless dumbfounded at sea bushed stand-offish aloof cold distant haughty remote reserved detached impersonal unapproachable unsociable avoidant chilly cool uncommunicative unforthcoming unfriendly withdrawn disdainful moony astral calming chimerical daydreaming excellent fanciful fantastic gentle idealistic imaginary immaterial impractical intangible introspective introvertive lulling marvellous(UK) marvelous(US) obsessive compulsive besetting obsessional consuming gripping haunting neurotic tormenting all-consuming dominating addictive controlling driven excessive fanatic fixed impulsive irresistible took used filled secured utilised(UK) utilized(US) held monopolized(US) adopted book booked bagged monopolised(UK) took up struck holden absorpt enmeshed threw assimilated connected enraptured mired bothered disconcerted disturbed upset worried afflicted agitated bugged discomfited discomposed distressed perturbed vexed vext discomforted disquieted beguiled charmed enchanted allured bewitched attracted entranced delighted pleased forestalled prevented precluded anticipated obviated frustrated hindered thwarted averted intercepted pre-empted foiled headed off second-guessed stopped baulked(UK) balked(US) blocked checked helped preyed on caught attacked blackmailed bled bullied burdened depredated depressed devoured ate eaten exploited extorted fleeced More
"preoccupied" Antonyms
alert bored carefree disenthralled disinterested existing indifferent observant thoughtful uninterested unoccupied unfocused inattentive unabsorbed absent absentminded unfocussed distracted inobservant abstracted awake quick vigilant wary attentive aware perceptive wide-awake on the ball on your toes mindful focused(US) heedful watchful focussed(UK) regardful conscious percipient abundant attending complete filled full sufficient horrible ordinary real terrible unromantic detached open-minded unconcerned dispassionate uncommitted uninvolved unprepossessed apathetic neutral passionless impartial blasé nonchalant uncaring phlegmatic available accessible free ready at hand on hand unengaged disengaged off contactable relaxing inactive unbusy unemployed off work not tied down having a break off duty collected composed recollected self-collected self-composed self-possessed unhysterical concentrating untroubled unruffled undisturbed unperturbed unflappable possessed unshaken unflustered unfazed unagitated unbothered nonplussed undismayed unbroken unanxious unstirred relaxed superficial casual cursory shallow depthless token unconsidered ignorant thoughtless uncritical fatuous empty peripheral light flippant flimsy inane trivial slapdash clearheaded clear hesitant friendly approachable sociable cordial open warm affable congenial social gregarious outgoing companionable involved amicable amiable genial easy convivial extroverted organised(UK) organized(US) efficient methodical disciplined meticulous orderly analytical controlled sensible prepared coordinated precise structured careful analytic systematic together ordered reachable unrestricted unused handy operative untaken vacant exploitable useable forfeited gave up relinquished surrendered yielded yold forwent abandoned ceded sacrificed lost withwent excluded misinterpreted missed mistook mistaken misunderstood neglected overlooked not got

956 Sentences With "preoccupied"

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"Structure has preoccupied me in every project," he writes, which is as true as saying that Ahab, on his nautical adventures, was preoccupied by a certain whale.
You may not perceive your behavioral changes because you're preoccupied.
But he also appeared preoccupied by what was left undone.
THE "right to die" has long preoccupied politicians and judges.
Under them, Charmed is earnest, fullhearted, and very politically preoccupied.
Of course, not everyone is preoccupied with the disease's origins.
Both feature protagonists who are preoccupied with that cultural moment.
So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with colleagues.
But children often aren't just preoccupied with what's before them.
Speaking of strange interactions — Rebus seems awfully preoccupied with Dolores.
But you're not always tired and you're not always preoccupied.
Although it seems Deadpool isn't super preoccupied with proper spelling.
But today he seems far more preoccupied by his voice.
Become preoccupied with their future careers, as well as appearance.
Thaksin was also preoccupied with helping his sister, said Chaturon.
H. P. was always a little preoccupied with other things.
Silicon Valley investors could grow preoccupied with some other debate.
For their part, the newcomers are preoccupied by household matters.
I've been preoccupied with billionaires for much of the year.
She is emotionally isolated, an insomniac, and preoccupied with death.
"CEOs are still terribly preoccupied by quarterly results," he said.
They were preoccupied with Mazlov's pyramid base: safety, home, food!
I have been preoccupied with water for several years now.
With his narrowed eyes, he seems a bit more preoccupied.
Gortat was too preoccupied with Rozier to recover quickly enough.
"It preoccupied Washington and became its own drama," said Alter.
This time, the White House seems more preoccupied with Iran.
Some were preoccupied by cultural injustices; others attacked capitalism, too.
Democratic policies often seem caught between two sets of policy purists — on one side, wonks and economists, preoccupied with theoretical, more cost-effective alternatives; on the other side, activists, preoccupied with theoretical, stronger alternatives.
So I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with my colleagues.
They really like experimentation and tend to be preoccupied with rationality.
Preoccupied by Venezuela, the last thing they want is another conflict.
Like the Surrealists, La Melia is preoccupied with perception and vision.
James no longer spends her days preoccupied with her next meal.
These days Britain is preoccupied with gongs of a different sort.
"I wasn't preoccupied with the NFL," Trump told reporters on Tuesday.
But that's probably not why the regulators are preoccupied with Americans.
So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the colleagues.
He said his company isn't entirely preoccupied with taking market share.
There's nothing more infuriating than a driver preoccupied with their phone.
You can get so preoccupied with what you see on tape.
Those at home are preoccupied with their own shortages and privation.
But instead they end up preoccupied with feeding the bureaucratic beast.
He was sometimes so preoccupied that he appeared lost in meetings.
It's obvious why David is so preoccupied with the wholesome show.
But Mr. Trump's mind was, again, preoccupied by politics at home.
A melodramatist preoccupied with vintage soundtracks, American roots music and gravitas.
So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the colleagues.
However, Bruno is preoccupied with two crises on his own patch.
The subject of causation has preoccupied philosophers at least since Aristotle.
To a family so preoccupied with the dichotomy of good vs.
Maybe they would not be so preoccupied with creating designer districts.
At my next appointment, I could tell my doctor was preoccupied.
They've been very preoccupied as a business for a couple years.
SM: Right now, I'm most preoccupied by what's happening in Nicaragua.
The media is completely preoccupied by something less than 22% care about.
Mrs Merkel showed herself preoccupied by artificial intelligence (AI) and its geopolitics.
Instead, they seem preoccupied with throwing increasingly heavy bricks at each other.
By 103, Bob Gatenby was preoccupied with modeling the evolution of cancers.
Some of Bowie's most eloquent, profound writing was preoccupied with time's passage.
That helped to keep Armenians and Azeris preoccupied with their mutual hatred.
Like many teenagers, Spears was preoccupied by how her parents would react.
Instead we have Trump, who seems preoccupied with creating a televised spectacle.
Fada tried talking about the Michigan game, but Karageorge was clearly preoccupied.
But I want to get to a bigger thing I'm preoccupied with.
She says the press is too preoccupied with Federal Election Commission filings.
Becoming preoccupied with this in the middle of an exam isn't right.
This happened on a Presidential-tweet-storm day, so you were preoccupied.
When I went backstage to meet you, you were kind of preoccupied.
All of a sudden, it is preoccupied with the future once more.
President Obama, preoccupied in Cuba, missed his moment on this latest horror.
Have fun when you're not too preoccupied with getting important beauty sleep.
Hyper Light Drifter is a game preoccupied with the process of rebuilding.
We're never preoccupied by the notion that we need to verify something.
Preoccupied with handling his company, Eazi fell out of music quite easily.
For they reveal a president who is constantly, endlessly preoccupied with status.
Both camps became preoccupied with what texts were being assigned in classrooms.
I turn to say something to Mr. Gardner, but he is preoccupied.
They stole my dog in a split second while I was preoccupied!
While my family was preoccupied, I watched The L Word on Showtime.
We were otherwise preoccupied with the pleasures and challenges of everyday life.
Aside from the clearances, everybody was also preoccupied with his legal situations.
And she's really preoccupied with consent, and she uses it throughout the film.
They all prepped for the film because I was preoccupied with other things.
The company's never been too preoccupied with the rush toward bleeding-edge tech.
First, the judiciary, often the army's junior partner, seems preoccupied with the party.
He also appears to have been acutely preoccupied with pop star Taylor Swift.
British politicians will be preoccupied by the May 210 local election next week.
Elsewhere the record seems preoccupied with the place of children within this world.
A source told PEOPLE that Loughlin and Giannulli are preoccupied with the case.
LeAnn is more preoccupied with Aidan MacAllan's disappearance; there's no trace of him.
I do know too many people are preoccupied with the politics of it.
His classmates' unfettered lives and preoccupied parents feel shallow and insubstantial by comparison.
As they continued on their way, the young monk was brooding and preoccupied.
For now, Chinese leaders seem mostly preoccupied with the backlog of unsold homes.
Until my daughter was nestled in my arms, I was preoccupied by fear.
Wayne wasn't preoccupied with these concerns the first night of his tour, though.
He blamed himself, and clearly those thoughts preoccupied him during his final days.
"So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the colleagues," she added.
Oates has long been preoccupied with male violence, racial strife and female victimhood.
A fear of upsetting others drives individuals with an anxious preoccupied attachment style.
"I understand that senior Saudi officials are preoccupied with other matters," he said.
"I wasn't preoccupied with the NFL," Trump told reporters in the Rose Garden.
Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin), the heroine of "Motherland," is mostly preoccupied with herself.
You can't do what's best for the country when you're preoccupied with winning.
Mr. Kerry's successor, Rex W. Tillerson, is still preoccupied with filling key posts.
While Mr. Moon remained preoccupied with North Korea, domestic affairs turned against him.
The Futurists and Dadaists were preoccupied with machines, while today's artists focus on computers.
Neither does my son, who is more preoccupied with robotics than life or death.
Justice Stephen Breyer was preoccupied with the empirical effects of a widened ERISA exemption.
They are preoccupied when they arrive at Oscar's offices, eyes glued to their cell.
Bill and Billy had just finished a tennis match during which Billy seemed preoccupied.
" Whaley feels a responsibility to his readers, he says: "I'm really preoccupied with realism.
Pundits have striven to unmask the author—and one word has preoccupied them especially.
"I wasn't preoccupied with the NFL," Trump said in response to a reporter's question.
The consequences of the crunch have preoccupied bankers everywhere for more than a decade.
He'd be preoccupied, so Faith had moved the big press conference up an hour.
Surely the pain can't be that bad if you're preoccupied with your unsightly manicure?
The Ohio senator has been preoccupied with workers' rights and corporate exploitation for years.
He received just 20173 carries because offensive coordinator Bill Lazor was preoccupied with passing.
The Democratic presidential campaign so far has been preoccupied with the idea of electability.
Europe, preoccupied with its own problems, has long forsaken any serious role in Asia.
" Moreover, she writes, "in a society preoccupied with diversity, nonwhiteness is a valued commodity.
I was so preoccupied with my food that I almost forgot about my beer.
It's hard to think of a city more preoccupied with itself than New York.
Still fearing debt, Tina was immediately preoccupied with repaying her boyfriend's student loans, too.
The police, for their part, are preoccupied with a sweeping crackdown on gay people.
I've heard that before about 'was I preoccupied,' not at all, not at all.
"Underbug" is more about humans who are preoccupied with termites than about termites themselves.
He's preoccupied not with economic leading indicators, but with a handful of great thinkers.
And on Twitter, he often seems preoccupied with celebrities who are critical of him.
Russia, which dominated the Eastern Bloc since 22019, was preoccupied with its own challenges.
Today, they are no longer preoccupied with managing a restaurant and keeping it stocked.
Pete's parents (Maria Bello and J. K. Simmons) also seem preoccupied with his sexuality.
I told him there they were all preoccupied with health and activities like yoga.
Teenagers are often preoccupied with getting good grades, preparing for college and having fun.
It depicts a president obsessed with his image rather than preoccupied with his job.
And the president's trade war with China has increasingly preoccupied the markets, analysts said.
Both buyers and developers, typically preoccupied with skyward apartments, are reconsidering the lowly basement.
What an audacity to build a novel around a character preoccupied with self-erasure!
We Americans have been preoccupied with the length of our vacations for some time.
He's so preoccupied keeping up with the neighbors that he nearly loses his mind.
Notre Dame fans, far more preoccupied with U.S.C. and Michigan, give B.C. only 2.
Full of detours and backward glances, the narrative is centrally preoccupied with time itself.
College presidents are also increasingly preoccupied by (and worried about) budgeting and fund-raising.
I've heard that before about 'was I preoccupied' — not at all, not at all.
She's less preoccupied by scenes of abuse than the psychological toll of its threat.
Ripperologists—enthusiasts who study Jack the Ripper—are preoccupied with discovering the murderer's identity.
That may be the best win that senators preoccupied with Medicaid can hope for.
"The couple seemed preoccupied, so I left without getting an email address," he clarified later.
Five years ago, think-tank leaders were preoccupied with combating terrorism and mitigating violent conflict.
Arab states, preoccupied with their rivalry with Iran or their internal difficulties, have little interest.
Even those preoccupied with their own high-profile legal cases in Chicago have been transfixed.
Those with few employees are more likely to be preoccupied with interest rates than hiring.
The world has been preoccupied with the task of pulling people out of extreme poverty.
She's more preoccupied with sweeping the dog's droppings off the driveway than with student protests.
The authorities were preoccupied, and he sneaked back into St Petersburg to continue his studies.
Forgive Brown if he was preoccupied, because he's got his impending child on his brain.
For more than twenty years, Keister has been preoccupied with pre-Columbian forms and figures.
You're preoccupied with food, alternately fascinated and tortured by its sight, sound, smell, or mention.
Preoccupied with the 787, Boeing was slow to respond with its own revamp, the 7773MAX.
The Kavanaugh confirmation process provided the otherwise preoccupied and busy nation a moment of clarity.
Preoccupied with obtaining food and medicine, most Venezuelans have limited energy or time to protest.
What do they have to show for the effort that preoccupied their time in college?
And, as in most horror films preoccupied with sex, a woman is the infected protagonist.
Her aides, meanwhile, are preoccupied with the annual list of the 50 hottest Washington staffers.
European governments, in particular, are preoccupied with the migrant crisis in the region, he said.
People are more open to update their views when they aren't preoccupied with defending them.
They are preoccupied with luxury, appearance or anything that signals wealth, beauty, power and success.
Or being so preoccupied with other things that are going on in our adult world.
How do you react when people seem to be preoccupied with what the transition entails?
We move through our days preoccupied by our own priorities, self-preservation our North Star.
Later in October, investors will be preoccupied with the election, which takes place on Nov.
Newfoundland is preoccupied with budget problems brought on partly by the collapse of oil prices.
Now, it is true that I've long been preoccupied with the darker side of humanity.
A lot of the big questions I'd been so preoccupied with — What music is popular?
Toting signs and chanting, people seemed more preoccupied with Mr. Macron than with the law.
She is also still preoccupied with her feelings for Barnett, which he explains to Amber.
Trump is preoccupied with getting China to announce a massive purchase of U.S. agricultural goods.
But he didn't seem worried, or preoccupied with the task of representing an entire community.
Even when Mr. Trump was off the clock, he appeared preoccupied by the world outside.
"I wasn't preoccupied with the NFL, I was ashamed with what's taking place," Trump said.
When her daughter is deployed she is preoccupied with other concerns: Is Sarah's location secure?
That's why I wouldn't be too preoccupied with a jobs number of 100,6900 or 250,000.
They'd been too preoccupied by their apocalyptic speculations to notice how long he was gone.
What preoccupied the Greeks — the shepherds, the oracles, the hunt for Laius's murderer — falls away.
Where other artists focus on human anatomy, Odegaard seems preoccupied with erotic and fetishized materials.
People with gambling disorders become preoccupied with the action and the rush associated with gambling.
Like many albums preoccupied with death, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
I am so preoccupied with my vanity that I almost forget David getting the same makeover.
Ransom, the county archaeologist, was preoccupied with an oak tree and its 350-year-old roots.
In a time where we are increasingly preoccupied with identity, camp feels more relevant than ever.
Before long, however, it was moving vans rather than cars that preoccupied Herbert and George Pratt.
And it has greatly preoccupied Macron's government, which has made little progress in stopping the uprising.
Not to mention, kids are often preoccupied with books or screens while riding in the backseat.
With other students I did, but as I said, he was very preoccupied with other interests.
God, perhaps preoccupied with a tricky black hole, has so far declined to offer a comment.
The US and Europe were our strongest allies, but now they're preoccupied with their own problems.
But repression has worked: people seem too scared and preoccupied with survival to sustain mass protests.
Maybe these crazy kids will figure it out one day, but for now, they're both preoccupied.
For now, financial-market Kremlinologists are preoccupied with which assets to hold and which to avoid.
Why is everyone so preoccupied with a ship in a bottle that was entered into evidence?
Houston said that while she was preoccupied with work, Nettles just couldn't wait to start living.
However, in both films, Rey's seemed too preoccupied with other stuff to concern herself with dating.
Instead of focusing on economic reform, Mr Xi appears more preoccupied with tightening his political grip.
And when her father does stop by, he is preoccupied with plans for a second wife.
Fifteen questions established each participant's "drive for muscularity"—essentially, how preoccupied they were with being ripped.
If you are preoccupied with the past, you will have a lot of difficulty moving forward.
Because of this human obstacle, I chose to run the vacuum when my preschooler was preoccupied.
Since Mr. Christie ordered the shutdown, he has been preoccupied with a series of political setbacks.
Political discourse, reasonably enough, is preoccupied with unemployment and wages, with matters of policy and economics.
Are you "preoccupied with fantasies that the world is ending because of the selfishness of others"?
After the roller-coaster year of 2018, investors will be preoccupied trying to look round corners.
She was in the midst of filming and she seemed a bit preoccupied, but not overly.
It remains one the biggest questions in biology, and has preoccupied scientists for hundreds of years.
They're so preoccupied with being the center of attention that they rarely take time for introspection.
Maybe you really didn't notice because you were a kid and were preoccupied with something else.
The analysis was released Thursday, while most of the city was preoccupied with the Mueller report.
Also, she was preoccupied with a trip to Europe they were planning a few days later.
How that money might be spent is a question that has long preoccupied Russia's oil industry.
It tackles a theme that has long preoccupied her: the blurred boundaries between fiction and reality.
But Fleury made it clear that he was most preoccupied with meeting milestones on the ice.
Eleven percent liked toys, and one cat was preoccupied with the smells of catnip and gerbils.
Though the characters don't seem preoccupied with the day's news, "Gook" captures the area's racial tensions.
By contrast, Mr. Jean-Raymond is preoccupied with essence, with an ability to make it personal.
By contrast, Mr. Jean-Raymond is preoccupied with essence, with an ability to make it personal.
Perhaps he was preoccupied with another bill, which guts the powerful anti-corruption commission, the KPK.
"I'm always preoccupied by the painting that I want to do tomorrow or today," he said.
She isn't in any hurry, and she's preoccupied with a relaxing and anticipatory sort of arithmetic.
The notion that someone with this sort of mindset could win the presidency preoccupied America's founders.
He isn't preoccupied with physical likeness, for starters, and regularly casts women in male roles onstage.
But the president seemed more preoccupied with his image than the deep divisions in the country.
She stopped hanging out with her friends and appeared preoccupied even when she did see them.
Lucas is preoccupied with Max, his once and future love, and Dustin has that pesky baby demogorgon.
Investors have been preoccupied with the trade fight all week, though the immediate market reaction was mixed.
By that time, Allen said, he was preoccupied with running another company in Seattle with Gates — Microsoft.
Now it's clear that Austen was preoccupied with the stuff from the very beginning of her career.
Francis has tended to downplay the fraught moral hand-wringing over sexual ethics that preoccupied his predecessors.
Tough executive branch oversight, which preoccupied Obama-era Republicans, vanished when their party won the White House.
Mr Xi is preoccupied with managing affairs at home and asserting control in seas nearby (see article).
He became increasingly preoccupied not with heroism but with bureaucratisation, and not with change but with decay.
They show that President Trump was preoccupied with a salacious dossier compiled by a former British spy.
The U.K. has been preoccupied by its own political uncertainty since its anti-EU referendum last month.
Brussels will be preoccupied with getting a new commission approved by the European Parliament by November 1st.
In all his work he was preoccupied with existential questions of life and death, physical or spiritual.
Few of these efforts have been tried by Arab governments, which are often preoccupied with other problems.
I don't know, exactly, what she'd said, other than the paper didn't work, because I was preoccupied.
So, moving forward, if what I'm preoccupied with is: What is going on in this fucking country?
That's something for you to ponder as Venus moves through Virgo, a sign that's preoccupied with improvement.
More than half a millennium later, conspiracy theorists are still preoccupied with the wombs of royal women.
It's important to remember that everybody is very preoccupied with themselves, and nobody is looking at you.
Much of the prologue seems preoccupied with establishing what Morris isn't interested in talking about or revealing.
Since then, international players have been preoccupied with other issues, including the battle against the Islamic State.
Alyssa, a therapist, is so preoccupied by the situation she can barely treat her (rather dull) patients.
Today Iraq is preoccupied with its own fighting, and the chief puppeteers are again Turkey and Iran.
But Anna is preoccupied and focused entirely on her sister Elsa's weird behavior, and doesn't even notice.
I was wholly preoccupied with imagining what I would do if that knock at the door came.
Suicide of the West is preoccupied with the influence of what could be called Social Justice Inc.
And yet, as he often observes, most people are too preoccupied by fear to appreciate stinging insects.
Engstrom noted that tech geeks aren't typically preoccupied with politics, at least not when they're starting out.
The Moon is in Earth sign Virgo, a sign that can be preoccupied with analysis and perfection.
You're usually not obsessed with worldly success, but you're preoccupied with it now that it's Aries season.
It is preoccupied with concerns about "reverse racism," about efforts to fight continuing discrimination unfairly harming whites.
The Trump administration has been preoccupied by G-7 over the weekend, and the North Korea summit.
The Vampire Weekend of today is preoccupied with all kinds of collapse, emotional and ecological and interpersonal.
At first, we are told that Dixon is preoccupied upstairs and won't be able to greet us.
It's worth noting, though, that the most jolting song here is the one least preoccupied with yesteryear.
Prosecutors said he had become accustomed to a lavish lifestyle and was preoccupied with clinging to it.
Far from his relatives, he became even more preoccupied in his work with family dynamics and bonds.
However, even that figure is wrong, but a Democratic primary is no place for the factually preoccupied.
One employee said that Charter was more preoccupied with preventing its staff from talking to the media.
Trump is preoccupied by the economic impact of coronavirus — which, to be fair, has already been catastrophic.
Cheryl becomes preoccupied with an actress playing a "beautiful black mammy" billed only as the Watermelon Woman.
Though Boko Haram was hierarchal, it was also fragmented, each division preoccupied with ensuring its own survival.
In 1989, President George Bush was preoccupied with a summit meeting in Malta with Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
She was preoccupied with the tensions in the Middle East and believed that global conflict was imminent.
I was preoccupied with starting a new job and impatient and agitated, but Frank insisted on coming.
This problem preoccupied Le, along with a Brain colleague named Tomas Mikolov, for the next two years.
The mentors and parents who used to rejoice in our achievements are preoccupied with their own declines.
When Ambrose (Chance Perdomo) wasn't busy searching for Faustus with Prudence, he was preoccupied with Sabrina's dilemmas.
Varble is preoccupied with clouds at the smallest scale, a realm that is paradoxical and poorly understood.
As axi0mX's exploit was released publicly, we imagine the company is a little preoccupied at the moment.
Nevertheless, Yoshiko is a little preoccupied with what she sees as the approaching end of her life.
There he became preoccupied with cuttlefish, collecting them from the fishermen who had no use for them.
You can tell that Angela is really preoccupied with what is happening to the women in those scenes.
But the US will be preoccupied with internal struggles in the near future, and targeted minorities will suffer.
Coal mining in Wyoming increased during the 20303s oil crisis, when leaders became preoccupied with U.S. energy independence.
We're meeting just days before the election, and we're both preoccupied with the flawed but fierce Democratic candidate.
For many teenagers, their minds are preoccupied with an upcoming math exam or whether their crush likes them.
One investigator fell off of an icy roof because he was so preoccupied with setting up a camera.
As consumers become more preoccupied with where their products are sourced, the farm-to-table movement will grow.
Will Clayton, an American negotiator in 1947, was similarly preoccupied with getting a good deal for American producers.
"If people become preoccupied with their weight, that could manifest itself in less healthy ways," Burke told me.
But only Pete, a policeman preoccupied by the case, and Alan, a documentary film-maker, pay their respects.
Was Tenor so preoccupied with whether or not it could, it didn't stop to think if it should?
But I was inexperienced, and I was preoccupied with trying to not be the weakest on the team.
But preoccupied by concerns over immediate economic growth, progress has been relatively slow on some key structural reforms.
By now, however, the economics profession has become much more preoccupied by the shocks that ordinary workers suffer.
It's been a busy week, mostly preoccupied with James Comey's Senate testimony on Thursday and the subsequent updates.
Though Figueras appeared to offer the award to Harry, he was preoccupied with his wife for the moment!
As with most economic data releases, the numbers had little impact on a pound preoccupied with Brexit headlines.
"Think about when markets were completely preoccupied with issues like Y2k," Santelli said on the Santelli Exchange today.
Another signal of addictive behavior is becoming preoccupied with smartphone use when you should be doing something else.
The question of how we ought to comport ourselves in the public sphere has preoccupied philosophers for millennia.
She is preoccupied with the cruelty of inattention and the rote motions that make up a person's day.
The implication is clear: Kim Jong-un, like his father, is preoccupied with projecting force in the region.
" He's preoccupied by press and leaks: "He began by joking that I was getting more publicity than he.
We were hardly the first to ask: People have long been preoccupied with unusual ways to contract STDs.
Yet many meat-eaters and vegetarians alike are preoccupied with this nutrient, and it's driving a market boom.
Most rebel groups were preoccupied fighting Assad, and had no ability to really refocus on the Islamic State.
Here at home, many are preoccupied with the fight against ISIS and, before that, the Iranian nuclear program.
Once in office, he talked about policy moves like one-off deals, often becoming preoccupied with certain figures.
And Mr. Smith was too preoccupied with finishing his Ph.D. to invest a lot of time in dating.
But if you're really preoccupied with the possibility that your parental status works against you, keep it private.
As much as my school day was preoccupied with watching and listening, I felt both visible and invisible.
How can children pay attention to learning when their minds are preoccupied by the fear of school attacks?
The drag queens and gender-nonbinary youth at such events can appear preoccupied with their own ecstatic exhibitionism.
I can see a hint of his gapped front teeth, and he seems honestly preoccupied with his bite.
This Eminem, the one preoccupied with his own pain, is a dazzling storyteller with ample territory to mine.
"When I was preoccupied with my husband's illness, I didn't even notice how small it was," she said.
Aides described Mr. Trump as generally upbeat but still preoccupied by what Mr. Barr would decide to disclose.
One worry is just that Socrates is preoccupied with truth, and fiction doesn't even aim at truth directly.
While Trump's theories surrounding the election are half-baked demagogy, he has reason to be preoccupied with Brennan.
He's increasingly preoccupied by the aesthetic value of these now-vanished, all too unremarkable daily routines and rhythms.
He adored his two sons, Franz and Marshall, but "had little talent for parenting" and was always preoccupied.
Schmidt is preoccupied, rather, with the morbidity that permeates this unlovely household, both before and after the abomination.
But the candidate most preoccupied with it, with the most developed plans to address it, is Elizabeth Warren.
Americans in particular seem preoccupied by risk: How do I escape beheading by jihadists or assaults by bandits?
Preoccupied with the resulting political chaos, the Human System becomes even more vulnerable and incapable of ameliorating ESD.
The Bush administration, preoccupied with Iraq, chose to pursue a path of negotiation with Iran, coupled with sanctions.
Mr. Trump, according to two people in his orbit, was preoccupied, uncharacteristically impassive but in generally decent spirits.
Overall, the President has been far more preoccupied with the drama surrounding Kavanaugh than with Rosenstein this week.
Mr. Pompeo met with his Mexican counterpart, Luis Videgaray, and the caravan was the issue that preoccupied them.
On Monday morning, Mr. Trump appeared more preoccupied with the Justice Department than with the crisis in Venezuela.
Country music is preoccupied with borders, and it treats each new incursion as an opportunity for identity crisis.
First of all, they're preoccupied because they're buying or selling bigger companies, or being sold to bigger companies.
Instead of thinking about my hangover when I woke up, I was preoccupied with the woman in Georgia.
Two-dimensional random spaces, in contrast, first preoccupied physicists as they tried to understand the structure of the universe.
Investors have been preoccupied with the possibility that far-right and anti-euro candidate Marine Le Pen might win.
She never returned home, adapting to her new reality slowly and becoming preoccupied with the chores of daily life.
No, she's been preoccupied with building a beauty and fashion empire that champions both shade diversity and body positivity.
Kahn says that the UK government has been "preoccupied with forced marriages" and has specifically created legislation criminalizing it.
The European Council's president, Donald Tusk, has sometimes been preoccupied with fighting against the government of his native Poland.
Of course, the Warden of the North may be more preoccupied by the fact that Daenerys is his aunt.
Rival independence campaigners and, especially, British politicians preoccupied by war in Europe helped to cause immense suffering in India.
For better or worse, love is in the air, and many might find themselves particularly preoccupied with past relationships.
I had the feeling that he was a bit preoccupied with other things that interested him at the time.
The German state of Lower Saxony, which occupies another two board seats, is also preoccupied with preserving VW jobs.
There he hit on the subject that has preoccupied him since: why some human organisations flourish while others stagnate.
In neighboring South Korea, most people were more preoccupied with getting ready for a major public holiday next week.
Moreover, authorities sometimes look more preoccupied with preventing wage-related protests than with resolving the issues at their heart.
Assaults against Western targets, churches and nonmainstream Islamic groups have preoccupied Indonesian security agencies for the past 15 years.
The father contended that the mother was unfit, couldn't support the children, and was preoccupied with her new boyfriend.
But the political elite of the world were too preoccupied with headline-grabbing measures to head off the disaster.
DMX's attorney, Murray Richman, tells TMZ ... it seems like X just forgot, because he was preoccupied with the trip.
Her sons would have been in their fifties when these prints were made, yet the subject still preoccupied Bourgeois.
That is because Rue is often so preoccupied with addiction, she is rarely has time for any romantic stirrings.
For a universe that's so preoccupied with the soul, in this regard, Blade Runner is utterly devoid of one.
From a general observation, people are preoccupied with careers, relationships, getting good grades, and trying to make a living.
While Washington is preoccupied with political transition, a thawing of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia might be underway.
It's also one that we find ourselves more and more preoccupied with discussing — and largely, that's a good thing.
She doesn't have much to say to photogs, but she does look preoccupied by her convo with a pal.
While Britain's politicians are consumed by Brexit, Germany is more preoccupied by the struggle to form the new government.
The band's plea for quiet — for relief from the world's relentless beeping and buzzing — has fallen on preoccupied ears.
One friend in the peer group was Jewish, and after the altercation, HD became preoccupied with Holocaust denial groups.
For most of the episode, Zoey seems to be uninterested: She's preoccupied with takeout menus and her cell phone.
I hang out with my baby and it's not as though my brain is preoccupied only by climate change.
If the EU is too preoccupied by its own problems to accept them, Russia is ready to step in.
You're getting shit done this morning, but later today you'll be preoccupied by love notes or other fun distractions.
At the time of the battle, he was too preoccupied with surviving the war to dwell on his actions.
"However, she writes, "Ultimately, money isn't such a huge issue in our relationship that we're constantly preoccupied with it.
On a fateful date when Germans are usually preoccupied with remembering Kristallnacht — the Nazis' pogroms against Jews on Nov.
The UC Irvine physicist was preoccupied: A dumpster fire had just erupted in a neighboring corner of physics culture.
Though Peavy was a bit preoccupied, arguing with the third base umpire that the call should've been a strike.
As rush hours go, this one seems oddly preoccupied with couples, groups and partnering; any loners make little impression.
The streets were largely empty, and any unsuspecting pedestrians and drivers were likely to be preoccupied with the rain.
It's too preoccupied with its action set-pieces to allow its characters and their perspectives much room to breathe.
Sounds like Big Show will be preoccupied either way in what could be his last round in the ring.
My eyes darted from Saba to the water; I was too preoccupied with his safety to appreciate the seascape.
For two years, Britain has been preoccupied with its imminent departure from the European Union, set for March 2019.
In addition to economic reforms, the government was preoccupied with endemic corruption, which has resisted repeated campaigns for reform.
It is preoccupied with viral moments but creates none of its own, or barely anything even worth a GIF.
Investors have been preoccupied by the possibility that far-right and anti-euro candidate Marine Le Pen might win.
Joe Barnard was so preoccupied with whether or not he could, he didn't stop to think if he should.
The narrator of "The Suicides" (1969), also unnamed, is preoccupied with a darker kind of deliverance than his predecessors.
He was elected on a promise of restoring American triumphalism, but he appears preoccupied by the fear of defeat.
So Jimmy mattered a lot in lots of negative ways, and in fact preoccupied Chuck to a certain extent.
Previously they were more preoccupied with losing weight in a sport where the lightest men have enjoyed an advantage.
Gumbel said he was aware of the Davis-Rozelle story line in 1981 but was not preoccupied with it.
Although this discussion is preoccupied with emails, the potential applicability to certain scathing late-night Trump tweets is obvious.
Mr Roche is preoccupied by the monarchy, beginning each of his chapters with an anecdote about the royal family.
Rumpled and barefoot on a cold winter day, Mr. Pettibon, who turns 60 this year, seemed a little preoccupied.
For a few months after that, Mongeau was preoccupied with her whirlwind romance, engagement, and "marriage" to Jake Paul.
Ms. Reuter said some of her parishioners were preoccupied with fears that more refugees would be sent to Buch.
As the years passed, he became more preoccupied with receiving recognition for what he viewed as his pioneering research.
MELBOURNE, Australia — The beginning of a calendar year normally would seem a strange time to be preoccupied with endings.
" – "He demonstrates tendencies to become preoccupied with his own views at the expense of taking perspective from all angles.
He operated within Indiana's offense as a finisher, unworried about assists and too preoccupied to ever turn it over.
Instead of being so preoccupied with your reputation, you can now share the fruits of your labor with your community.
As revenue models shift from advertisers to subscribers, the media business is increasingly preoccupied with selling access to valuable information.
But despite his big win, all Oliver was preoccupied by was the fact that he didn't get to see Beyoncé.
Mainland authorities, who have been preoccupied with U.S. trade talks and other pressing issues, could soon become more hands-on.
"As parents, we should foster a pro-health family environment rather than be over-preoccupied by weight watching," Zhang said.
America's 300-odd Catholic bishops are mostly conservative and preoccupied by gay marriage and abortion, which Mr Trump railed against.
With Swift's monumental birthday on the horizon, she's feeling excited about turning another year older and isn't preoccupied with aging.
In fact, those clerics seem far more preoccupied with what they regard as the terrible maladies of the present day.
And, since the financial crisis, Western banks have been preoccupied with repairing their balance-sheets and old-fashioned cost-cutting.
Young was preoccupied by the 11-plus exam which divided British state-school pupils on the basis of IQ tests.
Within seconds you're checking out your new jewelry, too preoccupied by the result to think about how it actually felt.
So, right now, Riverdale fans are preoccupied with theorizing and hypothesizing around who this "Angel of Death" could possibly be.
Back before we had social media, selfies and Candy Crush to keep us preoccupied, Snake was the way to go.
Besides autonomy, Salvini is also preoccupied by allegations that his party sought funds via an illicit oil deal with Russia.
This article originally appeared on VICE UK. For as long as I can remember I've been preoccupied with the night.
The six sniffer dogs were apparently too preoccupied by all the delicious food smells emanating from passengers' snack-packed bags.
Soon, Neff became so preoccupied with cans of spray paint that he found himself reluctant to throw empty ones away.
Nothing. Büchler describes his practice as "making nothing happen," and the artist is preoccupied with a Sisyphean idea of work.
This is what keeps him preoccupied as a trainer: the difference between just doing something, and doing it with intent.
Trump pushed back on that during a news conference Tuesday, saying he was "not at all" preoccupied with the controversy.
That question has preoccupied policymakers in Jerusalem ever since Russia's formal intervention into the Syrian civil war in September 2015.
He's preoccupied by his own and his music's "authenticity," even though he understands that the act is ever the act.
Mr. Stone became preoccupied with warding off government surveillance and schemed to secure Mr. Snowden's appearance in the movie's finale.
Such moves have been rare, in part because athletes are often preoccupied with team morale and financial and branding issues.
"Mort was always so busy, so preoccupied, that we ended up dating for 26 years," said Ms. Blatt, now 75.
Or, perhaps, a public preoccupied with two natural disasters and apocalyptic foreign policy speeches has other things to think about.
Yet in recent years the city became a hub for lives upended — and preoccupied — by the civil war in Syria.
I know that there's another, darker side to this — that some of them are overly preoccupied with fame, with riches.
IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES INTERNATIONAL: While preoccupied with Congress and the shutdown, the Trump administration remains challenged around the world.
The shadows, outlines and juxtaposition of elements that preoccupied him are things, he noted, that early man would have seen.
Terrified of being revealed as a loser in any arena, Trump has always been preoccupied with puffing up his image.
Inevitably, the House Democrats will be preoccupied with investigating Trump and with the traps that he keeps setting for them.
He asked Mr. Qader if he understood the situation, but the teenager was disoriented and preoccupied by the flight conditions.
If you ask boomers, they'll tell you that Gen Z is overly preoccupied with influencing and creating content for money.
Buyers and developers preoccupied with sky-high homes are reconsidering the lowly basement, as nest seekers look earthbound for deals.
While he crafted a broad policy agenda, a White House preoccupied with Mr. Bush's re-election campaign mainly ignored it.
"Nobody is talking about [the election] very much here right now," preoccupied instead with the coronavirus, said former Washington Gov.
"While the world is preoccupied with the North Korean nuclear crisis, these refugees' plight has gotten little attention," he said.
Farquharson also wrote about being preoccupied with academic success, to the point that he experienced physical and mental-health issues.
Still, Walker is preoccupied with questions of creation, whether they concern a belted coat or the universe as a whole.
As BuzzFeed News reported, administration officials who attended recent closed-door meetings at the United Nations were preoccupied with abstinence.
Another study, published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, found that self-criticism leads people to becoming preoccupied with failure.
Since retiring his Madea character last year, the prolific writer and director Tyler Perry has been preoccupied with several projects.
But then Roiphe has always been preoccupied with appearances, writing as if the same can be said for everyone else.
Historian Kevin Matthews told Time that by then, the Irish were largely preoccupied with the economic chaos ravaging the country.
It's Melville — preoccupied with squids and ambergris, not to mention white whales — who has been VanderMeer's reference point all along.
That has also spurred a global role for the PLA, which was formerly overwhelmingly preoccupied with securing China's territorial integrity.
Past Russian behavior suggests that when the West is preoccupied elsewhere, Russia seeks out new opportunities to advance its influence.
In the spot, Trump's campaign sought to cast Democrats as preoccupied with impeachment, even as Trump talks of little else.
Snoke is preoccupied with Kylo resisting the light side, and Kylo kills him while maintaining his allegiance to the dark.
Others on Capitol Hill professed to be not following the unfolding developments, which have preoccupied aides in the White House.
The book revisits questions that have long preoccupied Luiselli — how can language be an agent of both violence and repair?
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should.
But as he's become more famous, his work has turned more insular, and more preoccupied with the wages of fame.
When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles and obstacles of their increasing age.
That fact made them cousins to the fictional Benjamin Braddock, who from the very first is preoccupied with his future.
Both parties are trapped in the forest and too preoccupied with who started the war to find a way out.
These photographers weren't preoccupied with contradicting demeaning racial stereotypes or with pleading the case for the humanity of black people.
Trump insisted to reporters on Tuesday that he was not preoccupied with the NFL controversy and that he could multi-task.
It's an issue that's preoccupied philosophers for centuries, but only recently have we developed the technology to address this question scientifically.
In poor countries, where climates are often hotter and more humid, public-health systems are weaker and preoccupied with other threats.
When it comes to the science of love and pain, researchers are primarily preoccupied with understanding how people react to rejection.
Role-playing games are often preoccupied by quests with material gains like weapons or gold; shooters by taking out an enemy.
The White House may be preoccupied with Iran's past pursuit of nuclear weapons and its present strategic status in the region.
Trump's spokesman Sean Spicer said that Trump was deeply preoccupied with the lives of people who helped him win last November.
Even Snapchat's native art installation, a collaboration with American artist, Jeff Koons, is preoccupied with AR art that "fits" into surroundings.
The fact that we as a nation are not overly preoccupied with our military or military service is a good thing.
My saving grace during this time was that most new parents were too preoccupied with their own tribulations to notice mine.
People can go with their gut feeling because they are distracted or preoccupied or don't have time to look into everything.
And that's also how he will be memorialized, as a man preoccupied with pleasures of both the flesh and his conscience.
When I had money, I'd been so free and generous, and probably very fun, because I wasn't preoccupied with my spending.
We normally hang out and catch up on our weeks on the weekend, but I was a bit preoccupied this weekend.
Mr Poroshenko will stand for a second term in 2019, and his administration is already preoccupied with securing his re-election.
Bašić has been preoccupied by death since childhood, even before she lived through the 1990s war in what was formerly Yugoslavia.
However, those of us who are often preoccupied with what and where the reality TV stars eat have another buring question.
Deputies hoping to retain theirs will be too preoccupied by electioneering to get much done, reckons Fabio Giambiagi, a pensions expert.
Try not to be preoccupied with the reputation held by certain colleges, and instead embrace your own individual third-level experience.
If the crown prince's economic programme does not yield quick results, he may find himself preoccupied with fighting off more rivals.
And sometimes you feel tired, or you feel dizzy, or you feel preoccupied by other things, and you cannot do this.
He's been preoccupied with the process that produced the tax bill, demanding "regular order" rather than a rushed and secretive negotiation.
Sam admits to feeling a "flash of anger" upon discovering the leak, while Will was preoccupied with a more curious detail.
Congress has found itself preoccupied for much of the year with unsuccessful efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
" Richard said the security concerns were legitimate: "I absolutely understand that all of our countries, and the French authorities, are preoccupied.
Students ranged from enthusiastic to preoccupied and bored at first, but towards the end of the class, nearly everyone seemed engaged.
I also didn't know much about her before making the film—I thought she was preoccupied with fashion and her look.
Still, "American Assassin" seems a little too preoccupied with its next mission, given the ways in which it botches this one.
A Palestinian source in Ramallah said Kamel has left without seeing Abbas, who had been preoccupied with a Palestinian leadership conference.
This feels purposeful: Cunanan was preoccupied with fame, perhaps to the point of psychopathy, and he put celebrity on a pedestal.
While the U.K. is preoccupied with national politics, the EU is looking ahead to European Parliamentary elections scheduled for May 85033.
Even worse, average Americans are portrayed as uninformed idiots who are hopelessly preoccupied with hedonistic pursuits, mindless entertainment and pop culture.
I'm more preoccupied with who is kissing, who is fighting, and which person probably stinks most strongly of sweat and seaweed.
Like Henry Ford, Musk is preoccupied with the manufacturing process — Tesla's Gigafactories, in Musk's view, are more important than Tesla's cars.
The Resistance, if it is a movement, cannot be too preoccupied with the Democratic Party as an arm of its organization.
I feel like he's so preoccupied with the AV club that we don't really get a chance to see his perspective.
He was close to achieving a career-long ambition, but he was too preoccupied with the details to dwell on it.
He is married to four women and completely preoccupied with them, and he doesn't allow me to travel with my mother.
Mr. Trump's attack on the American electoral system quickly stirred reaction from activists preoccupied with matters of international democracy and freedom.
Granted, we're often far too preoccupied with our own arousal to pay heed to a lot of these little biological quirks.
Paley was a feminist writer from the start, but in her first book women are preoccupied by their dealings with men.
Being preoccupied with saving one's life produces a myopia, in which other worries unrelated to one's possibly imminent death fall away.
To many, it is the mildest form of patriotism, and it long preoccupied German romantic writers like Novalis, Hölderlin and Eichendorff.
And despite the tumult going on around him, Midhat is more preoccupied by his inner life than the surrounding political activity.
At the time, the police were more preoccupied with trying to crush dissent and then protecting themselves when Mr. Mubarak resigned.
"I am honestly not preoccupied with physical damage at this time, because it is devastating … indeed, mind boggling," Mr. Skerrit said.
We also know that he seemed really distant and kind of preoccupied, worried, in the weeks leading up to the shooting.
Donors are stretched in many directions, preoccupied with their own problems, and much less flush than they were two months ago.
Years later, Arthur is still disturbed by these events and preoccupied by a paranoid certainty that the Terror remains at large.
He was one of four dads waiting, the other three similarly preoccupied, their presence noteworthy enough to be beyond technological reproach.
The foreign ministry on Friday summoned the Venezuelan ambassador to Lisbon to tell him Portugal was "very preoccupied" with the detentions.
Today, different "declinist" strains have merged, from Catholic reactionaries to nonreligious thinkers preoccupied by questions of national identity and political corruption.
Both Ford and GM are less preoccupied with financial bigness than they are with operating sound businesses and tackling new opportunities.
According to surveys by Wilmington Trust, 8 in 10 entrepreneurs admit to being too preoccupied with their business to develop one.
Mr. Trump appeared more preoccupied by Boeing — "big, big disappointment to me," he said — and the impeachment trial in the Senate.
The pilots, who investigators believe were preoccupied with the landing checklist, also missed multiple warnings that the autothrottle was acting up.
In Brussels, officials are preoccupied by the complexity of the looming trade talks and are pushing the British to be pragmatic.
But it was competing written reports on the Ukraine matter submitted last week by Democrats and Republicans that preoccupied the House.
"It might also have been planned to occur when Pyongyang assumes that Trump's team is preoccupied with Hurricane Harvey," he added.
People who should otherwise be preoccupied with cleaning up their own house now have a way to shirk their own responsibility.
Whether he actually was, rather than just preoccupied with his own political interests, is an essential backdrop to these impeachment proceedings.
They will remain too preoccupied with preserving what they can of the power and privileges they enjoyed under the old order.
To date, you can divide his career into neat halves, the first preoccupied with fiction and the second devoted to nonfiction.
However preoccupied Carrère is with loss and violence and pain, his books move to endings that earn a space of joy.
Artists and critics preoccupied with transgression love to repeat the word 'form!' to distract you from their reliance on visceral content.
This tells us that our American leadership is preoccupied with what is not important to the average everyday citizen in America.
Are we preoccupied with the past, concerned about the future, or paying attention to the needs in front of our noses?
When you're pushing one thing or you're preoccupied with another, that is every single day that you're not doing something else.
"We don't want to be preoccupied with our trauma, but we also don't want to deny or avoid it," Yehuda says.
During my time at the Academy, I'd been too preoccupied with my own challenges to grasp the magnitude of Flipper's accomplishment.
It is hard to when such a large portion of your mind, at any given time, is preoccupied with the possibility.
But she was preoccupied with his four brothers, two of whom died as youths, and the demands of the family store.
But Libya's Western allies, preoccupied by domestic politics and the crisis in Syria, would soon relegate the country to the back burner.
Every year when we cross that summer finish line into September, our minds immediately begin to be preoccupied by one important thing.
How do evangelicals explain their support for a thrice-married adulterer whose biographers have not found a man preoccupied with his salvation?
While Myanmar netizens were preoccupied with a routine flu outbreak, hospitals recorded more than 2000,21 cases of dengue, according to state media.
One thing I find myself preoccupied with is that, in an era of cellphones, everyone seems to have someone to talk to.
Indeed, policy-makers and investors are now preoccupied with the opposite issue of how to prevent inflation and yields from falling further.
Meanwhile, political leaders in Turkey, Britain and South Africa will be too preoccupied by domestic political challenges to consider a reforms agenda.
Bayer will be preoccupied with reducing its debt levels in the immediate aftermath of a successful Monsanto acquisition, Dietsch told the paper.
"He was the only guy handling the suits who was really, really preoccupied with imbuing these things with character," del Toro said.
A foreign businessman says that so far this year ministers have been preoccupied with campaigning; in a few months that will change.
Society is preoccupied with maintaining a hierarchy of pounds and sizes and goes to great lengths to provide scientific justification for it.
The generals seem preoccupied with national elections they have promised to hold next year; the problems of the South get little attention.
Similarly, having Eris in a sign that's preoccupied with the material world (say, Taurus or Capricorn) may contribute to an envious streak.
Data journalism, the hot new trend, is too preoccupied with polls and electoral simulations to bother with the true substance of elections.
I let Tara take this one, mainly because I had seemingly forgotten all words and was totally preoccupied with all the leaning.
Gevers was micromanagerially preoccupied with things like travel expenses: He questioned, for example, Arthur's decision to purchase a sandwich on a plane.
The current season of The Bachelorette has been pretty preoccupied with the great mystery that is the unhinged villainy of Luke Parker.
At the time I said it was okay because I was preoccupied with pre-teen things, like not being bullied by boys.
The Brooklyn star admitted she was a little preoccupied looking at the attractive men who took the stage just moments before her.
Also, I like to be clued up on things personally, but we're all so preoccupied with discovering things about our own lives.
Nine percent of Clinton supporters were "very concerned" about illegal immigration, while 85033 percent of Trump voters were preoccupied by this issue.
The actor had too much nervous energy – something he described as "an intrinsically Russian" paranoia – to become preoccupied with any one thing.
Citi's Wilson said traders have been preoccupied since last week by the extent of restarts of aluminum smelters in China this year.
In his first play, "Sorry Robot," and now in "The Tear Drinkers," Mr. Iveson has preoccupied himself with what makes us human.
His presence seemed to calm the Eritrean man, and it was helpful to have Sadek preoccupied while I spoke to his customer.
Fox needs to get into digital more but is currently preoccupied with sorting out its news division and completing the Sky deal.
When we are stressed, we may be preoccupied with deadlines, worries about getting through our commitments, and fears about letting people down.
Top officers, grateful for perks and fearful of retribution, are often more preoccupied with pleasing Socialist Party chiefs than with national defense.
But Merkel, preoccupied with shoring up her weakened coalition after a disastrous election, has been supplanted by the energetic efforts of Macron.
Russia Even as the Syria discussions are proceeding at the White House, Trump has remained preoccupied with special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.
I'm too preoccupied trying to dig a tenner out of my inside pocket with raw chipolata fingers to bother about these pricks.
My family knows that for the next month I'm going to be a bit preoccupied, but I'm not doing the whole tour.
Europe, the story goes, is too preoccupied with its own woes to give thrusting, emerging Asia the attention and respect it deserves.
An artificial Christmas tree is a popular alternative to the classic, especially for those preoccupied with never-ending holiday to-do lists.
These young people are increasingly preoccupied with social justice and activism, and commonly engaged in movements including #metoo, #blacklivesmatter and #climate change.
Instead, lawmakers are preoccupied with legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act and modify other federal programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Intellectuals were preoccupied with the legacy of slavery at a moment when "scientific racism" and its relatives, including social Darwinism, were ascendant.
That said, the program is preoccupied with blood and death, so much so that the episodes are preceded by a viewer advisory.
We're going different directions next fall and I'm already preoccupied about how different my life will be without seeing them every day.
The administration has been preoccupied with rewriting the North American Free Trade Agreement and a United States trade deal with South Korea.
But while Germany's two largest banks answered one question that had preoccupied the country in recent weeks, they raised another: What next?
The possibility that Mr. al-Bashir could slip away to a comfortable exile had preoccupied many who helped bring about his downfall.
But that conversation is slow to happen in Congress, where lawmakers are more preoccupied with how to make flood insurance more affordable.
Buchanan was concerned that politicians, preoccupied with re-election, were promising an overinvestment in public services, which he considered an economic problem.
Long preoccupied with his coverage in the news media, he had tried to bring changes to how the broadcasting authority was run.
How the company stays in business is a mystery, since the staff is full of misfits preoccupied with personal problems and infighting.
Instead, he and his team were preoccupied with a large turtle shell that was on the other side of the same rock.
But both are preoccupied with crises, with protagonists trying to write their own histories in the midst of events bigger than themselves.
She was still preoccupied by a goal she had set for herself thirty-five years earlier, when she saw Price for counselling.
Simmons, the PBS consultant, says a new generation of black churchgoers and pastors aren't preoccupied with issues of gender and sexual orientation.
But for Mr. Trump, preoccupied by investigations that he believes are unfairly aimed at him, Mr. Sessions's decision seems impossible to forgive.
As the months passed, he seemed only more drained and preoccupied, as if the effort of keeping it together was too much.
The vast majority of key presidential appointments requiring Senate confirmation are unfilled; whatever people are in place are preoccupied with factional infighting.
The George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations were fortunate to deal with a Russia preoccupied with internal crises during the 1990s.
He is preoccupied with the coverage about him in the media, as well as with his image as a villain, they said.
Activists preoccupied with the issue of health care assume others are uncaring because they can't recall what a single-payer system is.
Agnes was already married then, and too preoccupied to pay attention to anything other than the events of her and Pascal's lives.
The president "seems to be more preoccupied with China and his domestic issues," said Takuji Okubo, chief economist at Japan Macro Advisors.
Moroccan security officials said the SDF was too preoccupied battling its Turkish foes to engage with other countries to return their nationals.
HOLLAND As a young woman of color, when I come into work, I'm probably more preoccupied about it than my colleagues are.
Walker is clearly as preoccupied by the natural forces and rhythms of new life as she is by the end of life.
The generational dynamic has been accelerating in the last few years, but have you been preoccupied with millenials and clueless to others?
This was someone who thought deeply and read widely and was preoccupied with questions not only of justice but also of style.
But despite all the talk about sustainability, there were plenty of designs that are just as preoccupied with looking good on camera.
As we reported ... Justin didn't make a toast at his dad's wedding, but was pretty preoccupied with Selena Gomez during the trip.
When a woman is pregnant, she is very much preoccupied by the pregnancy and her baby - which is what she should be doing.
It was a thoughtful gift, but I was preoccupied trying to calculate if I'd be able to roll under the seats for cover.
They are more preoccupied by whether companies have VIEs, super-voting stock and a joint position for founders as chairman and chief executive.
According to Mr Stach, guilt and punishment preoccupied Kafka from 1912—the year he wrote "The Metamorphosis", a groundbreaking story—until early 1915.
The first season's rebels were almost useless, but at least useless in a compelling way, preoccupied with the dubious power of political narrative.
They're intent on getting the inner cities of America so lit that they'll be far too preoccupied to actually go out and vote.
Oh Jeff, you were so preoccupied with whether or not she could, you didn't stop to think about whether or not she should!
In an increasingly visual world seemingly preoccupied by perfection, Bowie's damaged left pupil became an intrinsic and arresting part of his enigmatic identity.
When someone buys a new smartphone, often they're preoccupied with the camera specs or the size of the screen or its storage capabilities.
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could make a lighter guitar, they didn't stop to think if they should.
The goal then, of therapy, is for the individual to turn inward for approval, and be less preoccupied with how those perceive them.
She notes throughout that concision has been her obsession since she was a child; she has always been preoccupied with cutting the fat.
Kendall breaks down the field into six categories: the Preoccupied; Playful Pals; Double-Dealing Dads; Tiger Dads; the Grief-Stricken; and the Nurturers.
Even if you want to perform at your best, you cannot, because you are bothered and preoccupied by the rudeness you are experiencing.
"I believe that their presence did a lot to assuage people who were preoccupied with the fact there could be violence," Belafonte said.
Everyone ranked above me in the welterweight division is preoccupied to fight, so I thought why not pick a fight against Nate Diaz.
He is referred to only as "he," a self-conscious flourish in a narrative preoccupied with the disconnect between public and private lives.
Pliskova said she was not preoccupied with the seedings of remaining players, saying that anyone who reached this stage must be playing well.
"We are of course preoccupied by this threat and are committed to protecting the integrity of our democracy here at home," he said.
Over the past few weeks, as the Covid-19 coronavirus has made its way around the world, I've found myself preoccupied with worry.
The characters, Parisians who work in publishing, media and politics, are preoccupied with the impact of digital technology on their lives and livelihoods.
If Brahms and Mozart seem preoccupied with troubling thoughts in these two works, neither piece quite fit with the "Music of Conscience" theme.
By also shopping in the women's department I'm no longer preoccupied with arbitrary social norms; I'm simply becoming my realest, most stylish self.
Delbanco's riveting and unsettling book shows how questions that preoccupied Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries continue to resonate in our own.
Foreign leaders do seem to become awfully preoccupied with American credibility when they want the US to take military action on their behalf.
"Preoccupied," however, centers on young activists and depicts a snapshot of the Umbrella Movement, the 2014 pro-democracy uprising against Beijing's political influence.
Marjorie had been preoccupied for some time with an activity the exact nature of which eluded her, though it took all her concentration.
Books of The Times It would be wrong to suggest that Sigrid Nunez, a crisply philosophical and undervalued novelist, is preoccupied with animals.
Walking through his studio, then, is only partially a revealing guide to the various offhand predilections that have preoccupied Nauman through his career.
But policy and ideology aside, I'd imagine most Jewish voters are simply preoccupied with the same "electability" obsession that many Democrats keep expressing.
He is not preoccupied with the sins of the Communist era, or with Twitter trolls, or with Putin's habit of shirtless horseback riding.
On the album, most songs are preoccupied with taking a stand against the casual cruelties of the music business — Simpson is the warrior.
Let us imagine the conversation we would be having if we were not preoccupied with Mr. Trump's denial of the C.I.A.'s conclusions.
The South, preoccupied with hosting the Winter Olympics in five weeks, appears to find the proposal for direct talks difficult to resist politically.
But somehow, in a Filipino restaurant named for a meat that it cooks exceptionally well, it's the vegan jackfruit dish that preoccupied me.
"He looked preoccupied," said Monsey Lapuelta, a neighbor of the Bowery Mission, when shown Dr. Bello's photograph from news articles about the shooting.
Under Thomas E. Price, Mr. Trump's first secretary of Health and Human Services, the department seemed preoccupied with killing the Affordable Care Act.
With no access to physical books in the camp, the lectures are naturally preoccupied with the almost Proustian exercise of remembering Proust's text.
And in that, he clearly sees himself as constantly fighting a Washington establishment that is far more preoccupied, he believes, with the latter.
We can still feel the impact on the numbers, but we feel lucky compared to smaller places who are in a really preoccupied situation.
Drawing more than 4,500 airline bigwigs, lessors and bankers, such gatherings are usually preoccupied by issues such as aeroplane prices and the aviation cycle.
The work is not preoccupied with photorealistic renderings; rather, like Kirlian photography, her portraits document resonance, the fields of energy that encompass her subjects.
Preoccupied by troubles at home, he may see stability as in his interest and resist taking aggressive steps that would cause an open breach.
That may become even more true with Chief of Staff John Kelly reportedly sidelined and the president preoccupied with prosecutor Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
But with EU preoccupied with the loss of major member Britain, Swiss officials fear, chances are fading for a quick deal with outsider Switzerland.
Riding in a motorcade through empty Moscow avenues, he confides that the succession of power, a central theme of Russian history, has preoccupied him.
And Laurel is preoccupied with the Mahoney case, worried that Wes (Alfred Enoch) or Frank could be suspects, since no one's been arrested yet.
So preoccupied is the film with this theme of restoring childhood innocence that it forgets, at times, to build coherence between its two narratives.
Until recently, the Iraqi government and Kurds alike had been too preoccupied by the fight against ISIS to hash out their disagreement over Kirkuk.
His findings lead him to believe the Hand is preoccupied with New York City, also home to the rest of the would-be Defenders.
They become preoccupied with the Balkans and the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia to halt human-rights abuses by its forces in Kosovo in 13.
In fact, great tequila makers are too preoccupied with getting the highest quality agave to even think of using another cheaper source of sugar.
For example, the Wall Street Journal reported last September that CEO Tim Cook was overly preoccupied with depictions of excessive violence, profanity, or sex.
Meanwhile, multiple investigations into Trump associates' contacts with Russian officials are proceeding apace, a swirl of controversy that has preoccupied Washington, including Trump himself.
It might seem like I'm preoccupied with all these other larger issues and not focused, or even incapable of enjoying football at this point.
The Framers were thus preoccupied with stemming corruption—an age-old challenge made all the more urgent by the Founders' experience under British rule.
It's true that the Trump administration has been preoccupied with a secure next-generation wireless network, even making it a formal national security priority.
The memories of their great romantic past have faded and most of their friends (read: the United States) are preoccupied with their own problems.
It's just that I thought (and hoped) that there would be some kind of expiration date on being preoccupied with what I look like.
The Composition paintings alternate between two- and three-dimensionality, which distinguishes them from those of their American counterparts, who were largely preoccupied with flatness.
Serotonin activity is also low in O.C.D., which fits with all the preoccupied thoughts you can't get out of your mind in early love.
On the day of a race, it's key to make sure your gut isn't preoccupied with digesting something it's not familiar with, Bonci said.
I hit the streets, and had no problem blending in with the majority of other folks in New York City preoccupied with their phones.
He was too preoccupied with leveling the playing field with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal to think about outclassing the field to this degree.
Markets have been concerned Congress and the White House will be too preoccupied with the investigation to push tax reform and other stimulus programs.
Perhaps he was preoccupied by fighting with Arabic gum and lumps of leek, hiding in a secret cuberdon lab somewhere, preparing for his comeback.
Kavita is deeply — and somewhat depressingly — invested in her career, Ali is preoccupied planning her wedding, and Becca struggles with creative pursuits and dating.
When I was 22 months old, my mother gave birth to twin boys, and, needless to say, she became rather preoccupied with their needs.
It feels germane to "The Romanoffs," because many of these characters are preoccupied with how they come across to people who barely know them.
Some of the questions that preoccupied Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries continue to hold an eerie and urgent resonance in our own.
It is difficult to do anything well; it is basically impossible to do something well while preoccupied by the massiveness of the undertaking itself.
With President Trump in the White House and European and Arab leaders preoccupied by their own troubles, the pressure has now all but disappeared.
I convince myself a story isn't good enough before I even start it and am often preoccupied with questions of acceptance, representation and inadequacy.
But as I wrote last year after seeing the first couple of episodes, the show seems preoccupied with asserting the Times' significance and authority.
And, these days, 16-year-olds seem more rightfully preoccupied with living long lives, if the planet — and those who control it — let them.
They were more preoccupied with the photo booth, which printed out the black-and-white photos as if they were being sent via iMessage.
But all of this seems a decidedly remote possibility at the moment, with many of us Earthlings preoccupied with more immediate, less lofty matters.
For weeks, Mr. Trump has been preoccupied with Mr. Bloomberg, a former New York City mayor and late entry to the Democratic presidential race.
While his coronation as a King of Comedy may never materialize, this demonstrates that his brain is not entirely preoccupied with his physical maneuvering.
Bernie's been flying all over the country for different campaign events -- so the guy's definitely busy and has a preoccupied mind at the moment.
But the Pentagon has assumed an even more outsize role in this administration, given a chaotic White House staff and an impulsive, preoccupied president.
Poor Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) is so preoccupied with his own ambitions that he fails to anticipate that his wife might end up running Waystar.
The tension between expanding the boundaries of Facebook and maintaining an appearance of privacy preoccupied Zuckerberg's mind and filled his notebook in other ways.
It was as if, after a night preoccupied with avoiding polish, he had spotted one rogue bit, and came out to scrape it away.
Home and Work Maggi Hambling is an artist who has long been preoccupied by death — but her South London studio couldn't feel more alive.
However, the two are preoccupied and saddened by what they perceive as the decline of 1960s American pop culture and begin experimenting with drugs.
Her fate had preoccupied Thais, who cherish turtles as a symbol of longevity, and the vets had urged people to pray for her recovery.
"I've got to get this Russia right," Mr. Warner said at one point in the interview, seemingly too preoccupied to supply a missing noun.
Poor Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) is so preoccupied with his own ambitions that he fails to anticipate that his wife might end up running Waystar.
Chinese officials have also become preoccupied with preventing any disruption to the Communist Party's next congress, where the leadership is selected every five years.
These organizations began to mobilize women as Democrats and Republicans while the NLWV was still the NAWSA, preoccupied with fighting for constitutional female suffrage.
The United States, which has long been preoccupied with wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan, is now rushing to claw back the advantage.
This can be difficult to argue in the abstract, particularly in a moment when many Israelis are understandably preoccupied with fears of stabbing attacks.
And the Jedi, so preoccupied with their own affairs, failed to keep an eye on the fear burbling in the populace they lived among.
However, Heydarian fears a Trump administration, preoccupied and distracted with domestic issues, would not benefit smaller Asian nations like the Philippines in the longer term.
Hirst was the victim of flawed science, but for an artist so preoccupied with dissecting the truth, he ultimately possessed seemingly little regard for transparency.
"She would be tyrannical in the sense of making extraordinary demands," according to the former executive, who said Rebekah was preoccupied with WeGrow 's Instagram.
Investors also remain preoccupied by the run-up to high-level talks between China and the United States set to commence this week in Washington.
When Ashley finds out, Jay seems much more preoccupied with the possibility of being deported than with anything she's feeling — and, honestly, with good reason.
Chicago is enjoying a nap, Saint is preoccupied with something off-camera, and North is serving a "please save me" smile-and-peace-sign combo.
Israelis are more preoccupied with a criminal investigation of Mr Netanyahu, who has been questioned several times this month over alleged corruption (which he denies).
Saudi Arabia, once the rebels' prime backer, is too preoccupied with its war in Yemen these days to have time for the one in Syria.
The tenor of the justices' questions -- preoccupied at times with shared bathrooms and showers -- suggested a break with the steady pattern of advancing gay rights.
If you've been preoccupied with all things paranormal ever since October began (and you happen to be on the healing crystal bandwagon), you're in luck.
Bank policymakers are likely to be preoccupied by the June 23 referendum on whether Britain should remain a member of the European Union [BOE/INT].
She also hasn't responded to Lohan's latest comment yet, though appears preoccupied putting the final touches on the video for her first No. 1 single.
Where most dramas preoccupied with terrorism gravitate toward the good and bad, this one often deals in murky choices between the lesser of two evils.
With every volunteer preoccupied and his mother distracted, Winslow took an opportunity to sneak over to the turntables and give the hired DJ a break.
And as the family  posed for photos  in front of Drottningholm Palace Chapel, a curious Leonore preoccupied herself and played with rocks on the ground.
She's thought to have been longing for some man, called "The Master" in notes she wrote, the identity of whom has preoccupied scholars for years.
She'll know that you're not ignoring her; rather you're preoccupied and need a couple of days before you can give her email your full attention.
In the red-light district, for example, not everyone you see will attack you on sight; most are harmless, preoccupied by drinking, dancing, and loitering.
Attachment anxiety, or when people are preoccupied with rejection or being abandoned, was a positive predictor for the use of this reason across both surveys.
Ms Merkel and Mr Hollande are eyeing their own upcoming elections next year, and remain preoccupied with the fallout from the migrant crisis and Brexit.
WITH school-exam season just around the corner, parents will be increasingly preoccupied with how to make their children sit down, keep quiet and study.
Treasury yields have been moving lower as traders bet Congress would be too preoccupied with the investigation to push through tax breaks and other policy.
But Russell was ahead of his time: genre-agnostic in a way that we are perhaps only now getting accustomed to, and preoccupied with process.
In these poignant moments, she seemed not particularly preoccupied with the pyrotechnics that ordinarily are used to fill stadiums (though later, there were actual fireworks).
According to surveys by Wilmington Trust, nearly 8 in 10 blame being too preoccupied with managing their firms' day-to-day operations for this oversight.
But while this group of 18-to-34-year-olds is preoccupied with their careers and city life, they also need to focus on retirement.
Sharing script credit with Vanessa Taylor, del Toro is preoccupied with contemplating the enveloping nature of love, which among other things helps explain the title.
" Still, the adviser continued, "That does not mean she has to be preoccupied with him or worry about spending too much time attacking his positions.
On "Snowden," he and Borman became so preoccupied with American government surveillance that they had their Los Angeles offices swept for bugs more than once.
This time, the wave of nostalgia washed over me: I was 12 again, sitting at the kitchen table, my family's mouths too preoccupied to squabble.
The focus of the picture is a pretty young woman, the person most preoccupied with the camera, the only one giving it a big smile.
Regardless, the communication captures the results-oriented mentality of the nation's sports committee, which he said intensified over time as athletes became preoccupied with drugs.
"Comey was preoccupied throughout this period with the need to protect the FBI from these inquiries on investigative matters from the White House," he wrote.
Trump himself has remained preoccupied with the Russia investigation, even as his administration weighs launching strikes in Syria in response to a chemical gas attack.
But her official self-diagnosis is that she's preoccupied by thoughts of how his other relationships are progressing and can't get out of her head.
But over at the White House on Monday, Trump seemed preoccupied with a different crisis altogether: trying to figure out how to use his speakerphone.
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are two notable Democrats with presidential aspirations who have been preoccupied with winning back the trust of disaffected Trump voters.
Mr. Grenell was frequently in the room for policy debates, and was steeped in the national security issues that preoccupied the administration after the Sept.
The nature of performance — the ways reality can be counterfeited and uncovered when people take on different identities — has preoccupied this filmmaker for a while.
He became preoccupied with the experience of survivorship: What allows some humans to acquire resilience in the face of the most brutal and dehumanizing experiences?
The Trump administration has been less preoccupied with helping companies invest in China and more worried about increasing exports of American goods to the country.
And what happens if we lose sight of those benefits — including the ways they are operating even now — while we are preoccupied by the harm?
He has quickly embraced a more visible role in the Middle East, especially as Britain and Germany have become more deeply preoccupied with domestic politics.
After he was fired, Mr. Comey testified about his conversations with Mr. Trump and described him as preoccupied with the F.B.I.'s investigation into Russia.
He accused the media of ignoring the coronavirus until now because publications were too preoccupied with Trump's impeachment before that, which he called a 'hoax.
So far, Europe's leaders had been too preoccupied with their respective domestic concerns — Brexit, rising populist sentiments — to focus on reforming the global trading system.
For those preoccupied with, well, practically anything else, the issue appears to boil down to money, as it so often does, and how it's divided.
Some speculated that was because the Modi administration, which control's New Delhi's police force, was preoccupied with a whirlwind visit to India by President Trump.
The Queen's Silver Jubilee celebration is in the wings, and the punk-preoccupied lads at the movie's center are up for all sorts of mischief.
Menopause wasn't the only syndrome that preoccupied European physicians in this "early modern" era; others included hysterical suffocation, nymphomania, chlorosis or "green sickness," and melancholia.
At the moment, he was preoccupied with passing the Police Department's sergeant's exam, having fallen behind in his studies during his long deployment to Kuwait.
Were you thinking about the meaning of the music or were you too preoccupied with the cold or fear of sinking into the icy deep?
PARELES Another Dan + Shay song ideal for the weddings of country fans who aren't terribly preoccupied with tugs of war over genre authenticity. Smooth. Lithe.
BoJack's finale, "Nice While It Lasted," is mostly preoccupied with how a man who's made all of these mistakes might go on with his life.
My daughter, Marlow, is the palest person in the family by a standard deviation, and Valentine and I are preoccupied with preventing her from burning.
Now 80, with a career stretching back to the mid-1960s, Bellocchio has long been preoccupied with the endless, tumultuous, tragicomic question of Italian identity.
The fact that European theater-makers are preoccupied with migration is hardly a surprise in the current context, but the stage isn't a witness stand.
Despite a tech-forward approach, the hotel was experiencing a slight glitch with a new computer system, which caused staff to be a little preoccupied.
The vast majority have been positive, saying the market has become too preoccupied with speed and that a model that de-emphasizes it has merit.
"If you're not watching MLB Network, you have no idea," said Jones, who lamented that too many people were preoccupied with their N.C.A.A. tournament brackets.
Western powers, preoccupied with the Suez Canal crisis, were not going to risk a wider conflict with the Soviet Union over the invasion of Hungary.
Twenty-five years ago, there was little evidence to suggest Los Angeles — preoccupied with Spago, Japanese sushi and French-California fusion — would embrace Oaxacan cooking.
Kiefer doesn't footle around in drawing rooms with palette and pen, or ever find himself preoccupied by the delicacy of a single delicate female wrist.
It offered a reminder three weeks into his tenure that even as he faces weighty problems, he is often preoccupied with the narrowest of gripes.
In addition, many senators are preoccupied with fights over the confirmation of Mr. Trump's nominees to the Supreme Court and top jobs in his administration.
In fact, most observers say Abbott is more preoccupied with the prospects of a conservative challenge than with any hint of a general election threat.
Dougherty is preoccupied by the case of the Little Sisters of the Poor, a small Catholic charity that sought exemption from Obamacare's birth control mandate.
Instead of seeing the news as a flood of minutiae, I'm preoccupied with the human moments that the grand spectacle of the big story obscures.
All the while, Kezia is preoccupied over trying to find a fix for the expensive and unwieldy cloisonné clasp on her boss's most important necklace.
So far, about $5 billion has been approved by a Republican-dominated Congress far more preoccupied with cutting upper-bracket taxes than helping troubled Americans.
The story portrayed the White House as at times roiled by conflict and the president as preoccupied with how his administration is portrayed on television.
Gay men who are constantly preoccupied with presenting as masculine tend to have lower self-esteem and suffer from internalized homophobia, according to one study.
Tonic spoke with seven kratom researchers and most agreed that the FDA is right to be preoccupied by a substance we don't know much about.
I was not as preoccupied with the image then, standing in front of it in the museum, as I had been as a young girl, though I still loved it; nor was I as preoccupied with it then as I am now, as I contemplate aging in representation and wonder what a goddess of love, passion, and sex would look like without the bloom of youth.
"Lil Me" (Letter Racer) is his first solo album, and it's of a piece with his work in Ratking, preoccupied with smoking weed and relentless assonance.
But if you haven't been paying attention recently, our federal government isn't exactly preoccupied with reining in the excesses of the financial industry at the moment.
SAY "BYE-BYE" It can be tempting to just sneak out the door while your baby is preoccupied, but I've learned how meaningful goodbyes can be.
As someone who is so preoccupied with being the ideal woman with an ideal family, it's only fitting that Madeline lives in a truly idyllic home.
He is capable of being as seemingly, vehemently preoccupied with NFL players' peaceful protest as he is with the progress of his legislative agenda in Congress.
This now goes well beyond the deliberately ambiguous Russian strategies of information warfare and hybrid confrontation that have preoccupied many analysts in the West since 2014.
Phone conversations induce a form of what psychologists call inattentional blindness—when you become so preoccupied with one task that you fail to notice other stimuli.
While some small demonstrations have been held in poorer and traditionally pro-government areas, most poor Venezuelans are more preoccupied with putting food on the table.
" He said that markets would be preoccupied with positive growth and inflation forecasts, and with "accommodative" central banks in Europe, "that's probably supportive for asset prices.
I don't usually mind teaching, but I'm so preoccupied with other projects at the moment that I'll be glad to not have to prep anything else.
Jefferies analysts said Sodexo was likely to be preoccupied with devising and implementing a reboot strategy over the next few quarters to recover lost market share.
Her boss, meanwhile, is preoccupied with controlling Aaron Kalloor (Riz Ahmed), an online programming developer who's been much too chummy about sharing information with the government.
That is a big change from the start of 2016, when investors were preoccupied by the state of the Chinese economy and the threat of deflation.
Kunis admitted that her and Kutcher were so preoccupied with keeping their relationship under wraps during the beginning that it even affected some of their friendships.
Headed to work at the Bijou, Chic asks Alice for a ride but she declines because she's preoccupied playing with the twins and he seems frustrated.
He has been less publicly outspoken, but piecing together his comments over the past month or so reveals yet another senator preoccupied with the Medicaid cuts.
As portrayed in the film, his father is so preoccupied with his anti-war tome in the early 1920s that he cannot think about anything else.
As a teenager, he said he was mostly preoccupied with baseball and girls until he was moved by God after hearing a fiery revivalist in Charlotte.
Our minds are preoccupied by one thing — and one thing only — in the month of October: How to have the most fun at Halloween this year.
With Black Friday announcements arriving left and right, we've been a bit preoccupied with holiday season prep, making gifting lists for people, checking them twice, etc.
Frustrated, angry and preoccupied by the trajectory of his presidency, Trump is staying true to his instincts, lashing out and trying pursue his own unpredictable course.
The sketch showed Baldwin's Trump and Kate McKinnon's Kellyanne Conway during a security briefing, with Trump too preoccupied by Twitter to pay attention to his advisers.
As much as they were preoccupied on the trail of the conductor's real killer, don't you think they might have mentioned the name Trump just once?
What we learned was that in spite of the narrative you hear from televised talking heads, women around the country aren't preoccupied strictly with social issues.
Mr. Hoak said he was so preoccupied caring for his terminally ill wife that his mostly empty swimming pool had turned into a mosquito breeding ground.
After about three hours of training the program was preoccupied with the idea of greedily capturing stones, a phase that most human beginners also go through.
"If you're preoccupied with work once you get home, or even into the weekend, you may feel that you need to keep to yourself," says Taylor.
She found him and his seven siblings home alone, her promising student too preoccupied with tending to his brothers and sisters to care much about school.
That litigation, which ended in an $850,000 settlement but no admission of wrongdoing, preoccupied Mr. Clinton in his second term and indirectly led to his impeachment.
Ms. Chisholm, who wears a hijab, wears headphones at all times, after determining that appearing to be preoccupied reduced comments about her lips, breasts and eyes.
Trump, who remains very preoccupied with judging women's appearances, went on to attack Alicia Machado, the Venezuelan Miss Universe, for gaining weight during the 2016 election.
During the Cold War, the Canadian government was preoccupied with the never-proven risk that Russia could blackmail closeted homosexual government workers and armed forces personnel.
I do agree that the movie isn't really a "newspaper movie" as it is a movie preoccupied with all the other themes swirling around within it.
The American public is preoccupied with the fight against ISIS and the unending stream of Trump scandals, but we ignore North Korea at our own peril.
Schumer said the talks haven't made as much progress as he would've liked because Ryan has been preoccupied with settling into his new job as Speaker.
The Pence visits come as Trump is preoccupied in Washington with an impeachment inquiry in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives that is dogging his presidency.
She wanted to play on the soccer team with her female classmates and be an ordinary preteen girl preoccupied with crushes, lunchtime gossip, and slumber parties.
Turns out they are more preoccupied with making the most of their remaining, brief visit to this planet than with all the hoopla surrounding hair color.
John Kennedy (R-LA) ended a day with a nod to the conservative evangelical Christian base with whom Republicans have been preoccupied throughout the Kavanaugh fight.
He lives the sort of life most people can only dream about, but he's preoccupied with the sorts of minor concerns that many would gloss over.
The messages disclosed some partnerships and depicted a company preoccupied with growth, whose leaders sought to undermine competitors and briefly considered selling access to user data.
He became preoccupied with it, and though he took out a lot of aggression on his punching bag, his rage was huge and was always there.
Indeed, the couple seemed the inverse of the one on stage: mutually affirming and compassionate and bracingly preoccupied with matters beyond their own immediate well being.
For Stevens is also preoccupied with a charming Bostonian, a lawyer-turned-scriptwriter named Max, whom she has pursued for years and recently bedded in Paris.
Until late last year, Molinari appeared preoccupied with the modest goals of retaining his tour standings, and Woods has been recovering from injuries and personal issues.
Some said young Arabs were simply preoccupied by the violence or political turmoil that followed the 2011 uprising in several countries, or had themselves been silenced.
Like much autofiction, this slim novel, skillfully translated by Hahn, is preoccupied with the act of narration: how, even whether, to write about those we know.
Central bank governor Raghuram Rajan said in January it was "premature" to talk of bank mergers when bank managements were preoccupied with dealing with stressed assets.
The actress was out with 19-year-old Sophia Sunday at a beauty salon in Bev Hills ... where they were both preoccupied with their own activities.
That such a mind could be preoccupied with such a question points, I think, to the obstacles women still face in climbing to math's upper echelons.
Sam's older brother, Daniel, who's just done a stretch in prison, is preoccupied with the brand-new drug dealing operation he's setting up in Broken River.
While news, punditry, and politics are preoccupied with the statistical analysis of short-term fluctuations in economic data, less consideration is lent to longer-term trends.
Doshi has said she believes that literature allows for "multiple expressions of the same story," but Grace is too moody and preoccupied to pull this off.
" A Council on Foreign Relations report warned last year a unified Korea "could become a constant source of instability or a country preoccupied with internal problems.
He is clearly readier to contemplate conventional war in Ukraine, where the West rarely discusses it, than in the Baltics, where we seem preoccupied by it.
People with addictions are preoccupied with soothing a craving and needing more and more to get the same effect, as well as suffering withdrawal without it.
On the down side, topical comedy is hardly a novelty, and joking a lot about being preoccupied with Twitter isn't quite enough to bridge the gap.
But they recaptured Palmyra nine months later when the Syrians and Russians were preoccupied with retaking the northern city of Aleppo, another front in the war.
The string of rants - which aides were given no heads up about - made clear that if anyone was preoccupied by Russia, it was surely the President.
Kline's ability to trawl through such harsh territory in search of meaning pushes Vessel ahead of the many other indie rock records preoccupied with horrific sadness.
The French Foreign Ministry said on June 29 that it was "preoccupied" with Mr. Liu's condition and called on China to free him for humanitarian reasons.
" Trump, Reed added, "is so preoccupied with trying to distance himself from the 2016 election ... that he refuses to recognize the facts as they are today.
While Washington is preoccupied with North Korea's attempt to build nuclear-tipped ICBMs, South Korea and Japan worry more about its short- and medium-range missiles.
The resulting shake-up in leadership has undoubtedly caused turmoil at Nissan, whose top executives have been preoccupied with managing the case's reputational and legal fallout.
While the officers of Fourth Squadron were well aware of the region's dark history, they were preoccupied with making the road march as safe as possible.
I'm always preoccupied with finding meaning in everything, with creating a narrative out of the chaos of the everyday (this explains the predilection for astrology, probably).
Trudeau's government ultimately was preoccupied by a "capability gap," that could render the air force unable to conduct foreign missions while still maintaining regional air defense.
In the interim, many of my other friendships grew distant and awkward, and I had been too immature and then too preoccupied to go out on dates.
While everyone else seems preoccupied by that news, but we're far more focused on Keys — and how she managed to make magic out of an exhausted trend.
Pope Francis has strived to end the church's single-minded focus on the issues of personal morality, mainly abortion and gay marriage, with which they are preoccupied.
Here, Tony Krupski, who was born and raised in the Buffalo suburb of Cheektowaga, represents a segment of the population that is less preoccupied with the economy.
But it is also a film preoccupied with image, appearance and surface; how they are created and maintained, and their importance in fashioning history from protean events.
As administration officials briefed reporters on the White House's immigration principles, the president was instead indulging in a different issue that has preoccupied him in recent weeks.
Studies have reported that children with excessive internet or video-gaming habits can become preoccupied with online activities to the detriment of real-life activities and relationships.
Take a quick glance to the back corner of the classroom and you will most likely find someone trying to stealthily vape while the teacher is preoccupied.
Nevertheless, the subject of how people, and especially women, wriggle and emerge (or don't emerge) from their socially ordained slots has preoccupied her artistically from the start.
The fight against the militants preoccupied the authorities for years, but by 2008, Saudi Arabia had "broken the backbone of the Al Qaeda cells," Mr. Gerges said.
In September 2017, with many political analysts still preoccupied by President Donald Trump's blue-collar base, David Wasserman identified something else: the Democrats' burgeoning white-collar base.
The sign of Bull tends to get preoccupied with material matters, while the new moon urges us to buckle down, make plans, and set goals for ourselves.
New CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has been preoccupied since taking the helm at Uber with figuring out whether self-driving cars are worth the investment, according to Bloomberg.
The survey conducted by Reuters showed that Chinese exporters are more preoccupied with production costs, new orders and currency issues rather than fears of growing trade protectionism.
Ocasio-Cortez initially accepted an invitation to attend the event but later said she would be preoccupied monitoring former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's testimony on Capitol Hill.
"This may sound surreal to those preoccupied with an 'inescapable' conflict scenario between what they see as rising and incumbent powers," the newspaper wrote in an editorial.
The term before that it had been a memoirist whose own life had so preoccupied him that he never actually managed to attend one of their meetings.
People are busy and preoccupied with achieving their own goals; even the most attentive managers might need you to make your case for a raise or promotion.
The newcomer also inherits some of the same headaches that preoccupied Mr Johnson and Ken Livingstone, the first mayor, who served two terms from 2000 to 2008.
To paraphrase Ian Malcolm, our scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could make a mobile houseplant, they didn't stop to think if they should.
The result is a premiere impressive in its scale but preoccupied with tactics and strategy, offering a sketchy blueprint as to where the story goes from here.
The government will be so preoccupied with divorcing the EU that it will have little energy left for, say, reforming criminal justice or building new airport runways.
"I'm reminded of Harry Truman's desk plaque: 'The Buck Stops Here,'" he said, slamming Trump for being preoccupied by golf and social media during a humanitarian disaster.
It is a competent if sometimes heavy-handed affair, a mosaic of fictitious and underexplored characters who hear the assault but are too self-preoccupied to act.
Yet as blockbuster movies appear increasingly preoccupied with visceral thrills, it's perhaps inevitable that touch and smell will join sight and sound as part of the experience.
" Bannon was preoccupied by Alling's remark about the Challenger, and her general intransigence, saying over and over, "I am going to ram it down her fucking throat.
At a time when a steady hand is most desperately needed, America is otherwise preoccupied with one of the most tumultuous and unpredictable election cycles in generations.
Largely viewed as an indifferent ruler, preoccupied with opulence and luxury, he spent much of 2014 fending off questions of legitimacy by his political nemesis, Imran Khan.
As Art Markman, a psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, said, too many new managers are preoccupied with the decision to be liked or feared.
His work, though, is essentially, intentionally dirty, in both senses of the word: frank about sex in all its manifestations and preoccupied with the discarded and disordered.
For those of us preoccupied with America's role in the world, the obsolete assumptions and habits undergirding what's still called "national security" will continue to evade examination.
The US Attorney's condemnation would no doubt have had far more impact, particularly in the powerful British press, were the world not preoccupied by the coronavirus outbreak.
Obviously Kim, Kris and Kanye were preoccupied with more serious issues, but the rest of the extended fam was scattered, although the Jenner's pretty much stuck together.
"I think people are preoccupied trying to prepare for the unknown," said Lou Brucculeri, an attorney in downtown Houston with Blank Rome LLP, which closed at noon.
The timing of Asher's book, by contrast, is fortuitous, because many Americans are now preoccupied by economic and class disparities in ways not seen since the Depression.
As Malaysian health officials tried to track the spread of the coronavirus through the region, others in the political establishment were preoccupied with the unfolding leadership crisis.
As Malaysian health officials tried to track the spread of the coronavirus through the region, others in the political establishment were preoccupied with the unfolding leadership crisis.
Directed by the cinematographer Christopher Doyle, "Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled, Preoccupied, Preposterous" is drawn from the real voices of contemporary Hong Kong residents, a title card says.
The Walking Dead In its capacity as a neo-Western, "The Walking Dead" has always preoccupied itself with the question of what defines the American national character.
Mr. Abbas, 82 and nearing the end of his career, appears more preoccupied with feuding inside his Fatah Party than with striking a deal with Mr. Netanyahu.
Though "Killing Commendatore" does not address authenticity in specifically national-cultural terms, the novel is preoccupied with the possibility of making art infused with depth or spirit.
But the winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is as preoccupied with qualitative factors that influence markets as he is with the raw numbers.
Preoccupied in the 1980s with success at any cost (think Gordon Gekko), the American business world now fetishizes failure, thanks to technology experimentalist heroes like Steve Jobs.
By this time, she no longer asked about her birth mother; she was preoccupied with "The Hunger Games," her friends and convincing me to get a dog.
Charles Manson, the Symbionese Liberation Army, and the Weathermen preoccupied Pettibon early on, as aspects of the ruined hippiedom and misfired far-left militancy that punk scorned.
His wife, Mao Mao (Nai An), who runs a day care center out of their apartment — she's preoccupied with opening a bigger business — grows to resent him.
Some tech employees are now as preoccupied with the social impact of the multibillion-dollar companies that employ them as they are with their own working conditions.
Michael Nathanson, an analyst at MoffettNathanson Research, said MTV had several challenges, including a fickle audience that is preoccupied with social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook.
While the media remain preoccupied with the Syria crisis and the impeachment inquiry, equally if not more consequential events are happening elsewhere that deserve America's urgent attention.
While Trump's constant grating against constitutional limits is a big deal in Washington, it's less certain the rest of the nation is as preoccupied by his aberrations.
If you listen to My Favorite Murder, you'll understand how the young woman I met at that party might have become so preoccupied with tracking police activity.
The attacks raised the spectre of a major supply shock in a market that in recent months has been preoccupied with demand concerns and faltering global growth.
The attacks raised the specter of a major supply shock in a market that in recent months has been preoccupied with demand concerns and faltering global growth.
Many hoped the investigation's end might lead to an era of newly effective governing, a turning point for a President no longer preoccupied with an encroaching investigator.
Alice in Manhattan, preoccupied with her erotic and intellectual ambitions, and Amar in Baghdad, watching his family's life being choked by checkpoints, travel restrictions and constant threat.
"Britain has always been more pragmatic, more secular, less preoccupied with some of the things that we tend to place a great deal of value into," he said.
Partly it was because US forces were preoccupied by Iraq, a war Obama called a "dangerous distraction" when he was first seeking the White House back in 2008.
The bank is under political pressure not to raise rates, with President Tayyip Erdogan preoccupied by slowing economic growth and eager for lower borrowing costs to spur investment.
Other legal experts who work at detention centers have noticed for some time that grieving parents are too preoccupied with finding their children to prepare for the interviews.
Iñárritu's honorary Oscar, however, was in keeping with the Academy's eagerness to engage with a different pressing theme that has preoccupied the industry: the struggle for minority representation.
And too worried about feelings versus facts," he continued, saying "social justice warriors," feminists and the Black Lives Matter movement are "preoccupied with feelings first and facts later.
The controversy quickly enveloped the most popular U.S. sports league, preoccupied the news media and became a hot topic of discussion at bars and offices across the country.
Meanwhile, Annie is preoccupied with the elaborate miniature rooms and tableaus she builds, Steve is busy with work, and Peter is focused on his crush on a classmate.
North Koreans know that whoever wins on November 8, the United States will be preoccupied with a transition and will not react decisively even to the worst provocations.
The no-show drove a wedge between the hip hop friends, but Hova explained that he was too preoccupied dealing with problems in his own marriage to attend.
Children either climb into a car on their own or an adult leaves them in the car because that person is overly distracted and preoccupied with other things.
Before she went to Washington, she was a law professor at Harvard (having grown up working-class in Oklahoma) preoccupied with the study of debt, credit and bankruptcy.
In this case, the enemy team is so preoccupied with assaulting this building that they're not watching their flank, which player e5mikey is all too happy to exploit.
Moscow's traditional allies in the EU, Greece and Cyprus, with which it shares the Eastern Orthodox faith, are weak and preoccupied with the fallout from the financial crisis.
Despite the fact that Sri Lanka's protests were successful while Iran's were not, the Western imagination is preoccupied with Iran and those incidents are still widely discussed today.
That's why I'm kind of preoccupied with the phone because there's a woman off camera that's waiting for me to fill out this survey at the same time.
No word on what the rest of the family thinks about this potential new endeavor, but many of them may be preoccupied with happenings in their personal lives.
"Markets are preoccupied with the trade war and it seems apparent that both sides are determined to see a resolution," said Kyle Rodda, market analyst at IG Markets.
They've been preoccupied with other significant others -- Younes Bendjima and Bella Thorne -- and we know Kourtney was pissed at Scott for his drinking and partying binge in France.
He was preoccupied with legal issues and staff problems as the controversy placed his son-in-law, and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, as part of a counterintelligence investigation.
Throughout the entire series of over 30 images, eye contact between subject and viewer is only made on two occasions; every other moment glances are averted or preoccupied.
He was very preoccupied with the idea that Hannah could like Luke as much as she did, and what that says about Jed as a man, or whatever.
They were especially preoccupied with a kind they saw as endemic in the British Parliament, whose members were routinely manipulated by the king through assorted means of bribery.
While Trump may not be overly preoccupied with the threat of impeachment, he has been livid about what he sees as Congress' inability to execute his campaign promises.
Summerfield says that the fashionable British documentary photographers of the time — Don McCullin, David Hurn, Ian Berry, Tony Ray Jones — were more preoccupied with society than with introspection.
If anything, I was so preoccupied with the subtle, persistent pain in my foot while wearing the One Taps that I probably didn't play as well as usual.
But investors were still preoccupied by U.S. elections and the prospect of a victory for Donald Trump that they fear would carry global risks to trade and growth.
"There's a huge appetite for a candidate that pushes big, aspirational ideas and not someone preoccupied with shaping public policy within the constraints of their office," Smikle said.
But Hodges, who runs a small private agency called Finders Keepers with his partner, Holly Gibney, is preoccupied by some other news that may be just as bad.
How the mind instructs the body to move is a mystery that has preoccupied Andrew Schwartz, a neuroscientist at the University of Pittsburgh, for more than three decades.
Maybe the longer I'm a father, the less I'll be preoccupied with XBOX and Fantasy Football, and as a result, I'll be more in tune with my kid.
It is possible that a parent with a sexual abuse history, reeling from — or preoccupied with — their own abuse, cannot consistently and adequately attend to their child's needs.
Thinking about what is at stake for America's future is very difficult when a citizen is preoccupied with what is at stake for his or her own future.
It is part of a broader attempt by his allies on Capitol Hill to breathe fresh life into politically charged inquiries into issues that have preoccupied Mr. Trump.
My mother's protectiveness, in its proper context, is to shield me from ill-intentioned members of my community preoccupied with the so-called honor of girls and women.
Ever since, I've been preoccupied with a mystery: how one of the world's most sophisticated and flavorful cuisines can be reduced to such a starchy and insipid mess.
The longing for the home — and for the family dinners that he remembers having inside it — preoccupied Fails for years and is a main driver of the film.
It's a surprising but welcome development in a novel that had seemed preoccupied with things that sci-fi writers have already asked and answered: What constitutes a consciousness?
Mr. O'Rawe believes that the British government, preoccupied with political strife in Westminster, has given no thought to what Brexit might bring in terms of violent Republican reaction.
Adam Peaty, an Olympic gold medalist who holds two breaststroke world records, accused swimming's leaders of being more preoccupied with their privileged lifestyles than with developing the sport.
James has become preoccupied with these issues lately, particularly since she has fallen unexpectedly into wealth, and seen firsthand how society is weighted in favor of the rich.
Kyrgios, a polarizing player who has long been supported by Murray, admitted after the match that he had been preoccupied with his opponent's well-being throughout the match.
While much of the country was preoccupied with the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, something remarkable happened: Every single prosecutor working on Roger Stone's case resigned in protest.
May's self-imposed deadline of March 2019, but ministers and civil servants are nonetheless preoccupied with them at a time when the country faces deep-seated social problems.
If you're worried about eviction, you may forget a doctor's appointment; if you're preoccupied with how to pay the bills, you may be worse at making other decisions.
The book's narrator, 17-year-old Edmund, is a Jewish boy in Eastern Europe whose schoolwork suffers because he is preoccupied with love for a beautiful gentile girl.
Do we secretly yearn for beings that eat things out of the trash and drool when excited to be preoccupied with geopolitics, insurance rates or 4G data plans?
JON PARELES STAGECOACH Of the many mainstream country music festivals that pepper the United States each spring and summer, Stagecoach has historically been the least preoccupied with orthodoxy.
So, when you notice yourself tense and preoccupied with anxious thoughts, try shifting your attention to the sensations of your breathing, wherever you notice it in your body.
Some days, I do feel close to transforming into a person who is no longer preoccupied with changing — until I note the obvious paradox and temper my hopes.
But Jeremy was preoccupied with his phone, in other words sprawled on the couch, near-naked, composing a late-morning selfie for his tens of thousands of followers.
Rarely making eye contact, he maintains an expression at once detached and preoccupied, as if too impatient for the future to commit his full attention to the present.
Safaricom rejects the claims of dominance and it has in the past accused the regulator of being preoccupied by helping its smaller rivals rather than focusing on consumers.
"People are really preoccupied with pricing, but they're just looking at spot pricing in China, which is only part of the market," Chief Executive Jon Evans told Reuters.
But I was feeling preoccupied and stressed, and I wanted this mythical destination to be real, so I signed up for one of the company's sessions last month.
Jane, like her husband, is deeply preoccupied with Adam—his adolescent mood swings, his struggles with anxiety, a difficult emotional spot when he's an undergraduate in New York.
McCabe has denied any intentional effort to mislead, but said he was preoccupied with other weighty matters at the time and may have failed to remember some conversations.
Addicted to the infinite stream of seductively bad news, preoccupied with an ever-growing list of external anxieties, I tend to disregard my mental and physical well-being.
So Isabella, 9, Gia, 7, and Stella, 5, were pretty preoccupied with mom Luciana's purple Versace gown before the A-listers prepared to leave home for the red carpet.
No. 228 pick Eichel is more preoccupied with his own play than the matchup with McDavid after Buffalo was blanked twice on its just-concluded three-game road trip.
Food insecurity has long preoccupied Qatar which shares its only land border with Saudi Arabia and buys 80 percent of its food from the neighbors that have ostracized it.
Before walking away, the British actress revealed that her son, Tindyebwa Agaba Wise, is getting married next year and she's been much more preoccupied thinking about those nuptials instead.
"I am very much preoccupied by the legislative procedure regarding the changing of the laws of justice," Iohannis told a joint news conference with Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker.
But where modern researchers are probing Ceres's geology and habitability, the astronomers of Piazzi's era were preoccupied with fielding basic questions about the tiny speck in the night sky.
Surveys showed both that the Republican plan was the most unpopular major bill in decades and that voters were preoccupied with health care when they went to the polls.
What's especially revealing is that many of them were in development for the past three to five years, when the world was seemingly preoccupied with other, more pressing issues.
It's quietly castigating, for the audience: The apocalypse happens because fracking tips the earth off its axis, and we are all too preoccupied with our own concerns to care.
The heroines of children's literature are often preoccupied with being good and virtuous, even when they are tomboyish and unruly, but Lyra was never particularly interested in those concerns.
While the couple and I enjoy it all, the drunk girls seem too preoccupied with finding one of their friends and too picky to eat most of the food.
Right now, your mind may be totally preoccupied with theories about Sansa's accessories and internal arguments about whether or not it's excusable that Theon abandoned his sister like that.
Humans have been preoccupied with diddling themselves since the beginning of civilization, a reality brought to light by our ancestors' explicit cave art showing exactly what got them off.
He pointed out that now those firms are less focused on smaller companies, and instead are preoccupied with consolidating more mature sectors like group buying and ride-hailing apps.
Arjun Kapoor is preoccupied with his social media feed to an extent that he won't let a full day of promotional interviews stop him from relentless checking and updating.

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