"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.
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You may not perceive your behavioral changes because you're preoccupied.
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But he also appeared preoccupied by what was left undone.
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THE "right to die" has long preoccupied politicians and judges.
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Under them, Charmed is earnest, fullhearted, and very politically preoccupied.
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Of course, not everyone is preoccupied with the disease's origins.
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Both feature protagonists who are preoccupied with that cultural moment.
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So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with colleagues.
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But children often aren't just preoccupied with what's before them.
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Speaking of strange interactions — Rebus seems awfully preoccupied with Dolores.
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But you're not always tired and you're not always preoccupied.
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Although it seems Deadpool isn't super preoccupied with proper spelling.
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But today he seems far more preoccupied by his voice.
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Become preoccupied with their future careers, as well as appearance.
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Thaksin was also preoccupied with helping his sister, said Chaturon.
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H. P. was always a little preoccupied with other things.
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Silicon Valley investors could grow preoccupied with some other debate.
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For their part, the newcomers are preoccupied by household matters.
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I've been preoccupied with billionaires for much of the year.
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She is emotionally isolated, an insomniac, and preoccupied with death.
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"CEOs are still terribly preoccupied by quarterly results," he said.
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They were preoccupied with Mazlov's pyramid base: safety, home, food!
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I have been preoccupied with water for several years now.
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With his narrowed eyes, he seems a bit more preoccupied.
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Gortat was too preoccupied with Rozier to recover quickly enough.
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"It preoccupied Washington and became its own drama," said Alter.
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This time, the White House seems more preoccupied with Iran.
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Some were preoccupied by cultural injustices; others attacked capitalism, too.
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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.
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So I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with my colleagues.
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They really like experimentation and tend to be preoccupied with rationality.
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Preoccupied by Venezuela, the last thing they want is another conflict.
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Like the Surrealists, La Melia is preoccupied with perception and vision.
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James no longer spends her days preoccupied with her next meal.
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These days Britain is preoccupied with gongs of a different sort.
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"I wasn't preoccupied with the NFL," Trump told reporters on Tuesday.
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But that's probably not why the regulators are preoccupied with Americans.
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So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the colleagues.
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He said his company isn't entirely preoccupied with taking market share.
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There's nothing more infuriating than a driver preoccupied with their phone.
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You can get so preoccupied with what you see on tape.
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Those at home are preoccupied with their own shortages and privation.
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But instead they end up preoccupied with feeding the bureaucratic beast.
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He was sometimes so preoccupied that he appeared lost in meetings.
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It's obvious why David is so preoccupied with the wholesome show.
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But Mr. Trump's mind was, again, preoccupied by politics at home.
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A melodramatist preoccupied with vintage soundtracks, American roots music and gravitas.
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So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the colleagues.
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However, Bruno is preoccupied with two crises on his own patch.
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The subject of causation has preoccupied philosophers at least since Aristotle.
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To a family so preoccupied with the dichotomy of good vs.
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Maybe they would not be so preoccupied with creating designer districts.
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At my next appointment, I could tell my doctor was preoccupied.
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They've been very preoccupied as a business for a couple years.
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SM: Right now, I'm most preoccupied by what's happening in Nicaragua.
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The media is completely preoccupied by something less than 22% care about.
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Mrs Merkel showed herself preoccupied by artificial intelligence (AI) and its geopolitics.
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Instead, they seem preoccupied with throwing increasingly heavy bricks at each other.
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By 103, Bob Gatenby was preoccupied with modeling the evolution of cancers.
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Some of Bowie's most eloquent, profound writing was preoccupied with time's passage.
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That helped to keep Armenians and Azeris preoccupied with their mutual hatred.
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Like many teenagers, Spears was preoccupied by how her parents would react.
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Instead we have Trump, who seems preoccupied with creating a televised spectacle.
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Fada tried talking about the Michigan game, but Karageorge was clearly preoccupied.
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But I want to get to a bigger thing I'm preoccupied with.
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She says the press is too preoccupied with Federal Election Commission filings.
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Becoming preoccupied with this in the middle of an exam isn't right.
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This happened on a Presidential-tweet-storm day, so you were preoccupied.
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When I went backstage to meet you, you were kind of preoccupied.
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All of a sudden, it is preoccupied with the future once more.
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President Obama, preoccupied in Cuba, missed his moment on this latest horror.
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Have fun when you're not too preoccupied with getting important beauty sleep.
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Hyper Light Drifter is a game preoccupied with the process of rebuilding.
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We're never preoccupied by the notion that we need to verify something.
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Preoccupied with handling his company, Eazi fell out of music quite easily.
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For they reveal a president who is constantly, endlessly preoccupied with status.
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Both camps became preoccupied with what texts were being assigned in classrooms.
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I turn to say something to Mr. Gardner, but he is preoccupied.
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They stole my dog in a split second while I was preoccupied!
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While my family was preoccupied, I watched The L Word on Showtime.
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We were otherwise preoccupied with the pleasures and challenges of everyday life.
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Aside from the clearances, everybody was also preoccupied with his legal situations.
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And she's really preoccupied with consent, and she uses it throughout the film.
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They all prepped for the film because I was preoccupied with other things.
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The company's never been too preoccupied with the rush toward bleeding-edge tech.
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First, the judiciary, often the army's junior partner, seems preoccupied with the party.
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He also appears to have been acutely preoccupied with pop star Taylor Swift.
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British politicians will be preoccupied by the May 210 local election next week.
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Elsewhere the record seems preoccupied with the place of children within this world.
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A source told PEOPLE that Loughlin and Giannulli are preoccupied with the case.
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LeAnn is more preoccupied with Aidan MacAllan's disappearance; there's no trace of him.
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I do know too many people are preoccupied with the politics of it.
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His classmates' unfettered lives and preoccupied parents feel shallow and insubstantial by comparison.
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As they continued on their way, the young monk was brooding and preoccupied.
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For now, Chinese leaders seem mostly preoccupied with the backlog of unsold homes.
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Until my daughter was nestled in my arms, I was preoccupied by fear.
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Wayne wasn't preoccupied with these concerns the first night of his tour, though.
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He blamed himself, and clearly those thoughts preoccupied him during his final days.
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"So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the colleagues," she added.
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Oates has long been preoccupied with male violence, racial strife and female victimhood.
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A fear of upsetting others drives individuals with an anxious preoccupied attachment style.
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"I understand that senior Saudi officials are preoccupied with other matters," he said.
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"I wasn't preoccupied with the NFL," Trump told reporters in the Rose Garden.
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Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin), the heroine of "Motherland," is mostly preoccupied with herself.
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You can't do what's best for the country when you're preoccupied with winning.
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Mr. Kerry's successor, Rex W. Tillerson, is still preoccupied with filling key posts.
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While Mr. Moon remained preoccupied with North Korea, domestic affairs turned against him.
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The Futurists and Dadaists were preoccupied with machines, while today's artists focus on computers.
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Neither does my son, who is more preoccupied with robotics than life or death.
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Justice Stephen Breyer was preoccupied with the empirical effects of a widened ERISA exemption.
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They are preoccupied when they arrive at Oscar's offices, eyes glued to their cell.
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Bill and Billy had just finished a tennis match during which Billy seemed preoccupied.
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" Whaley feels a responsibility to his readers, he says: "I'm really preoccupied with realism.
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Pundits have striven to unmask the author—and one word has preoccupied them especially.
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"I wasn't preoccupied with the NFL," Trump said in response to a reporter's question.
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The consequences of the crunch have preoccupied bankers everywhere for more than a decade.
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He'd be preoccupied, so Faith had moved the big press conference up an hour.
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Surely the pain can't be that bad if you're preoccupied with your unsightly manicure?
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The Ohio senator has been preoccupied with workers' rights and corporate exploitation for years.
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He received just 20173 carries because offensive coordinator Bill Lazor was preoccupied with passing.
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The Democratic presidential campaign so far has been preoccupied with the idea of electability.
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Europe, preoccupied with its own problems, has long forsaken any serious role in Asia.
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" Moreover, she writes, "in a society preoccupied with diversity, nonwhiteness is a valued commodity.
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I was so preoccupied with my food that I almost forgot about my beer.
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It's hard to think of a city more preoccupied with itself than New York.
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Still fearing debt, Tina was immediately preoccupied with repaying her boyfriend's student loans, too.
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The police, for their part, are preoccupied with a sweeping crackdown on gay people.
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I've heard that before about 'was I preoccupied,' not at all, not at all.
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"Underbug" is more about humans who are preoccupied with termites than about termites themselves.
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He's preoccupied not with economic leading indicators, but with a handful of great thinkers.
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And on Twitter, he often seems preoccupied with celebrities who are critical of him.
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Russia, which dominated the Eastern Bloc since 22019, was preoccupied with its own challenges.
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Today, they are no longer preoccupied with managing a restaurant and keeping it stocked.
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Pete's parents (Maria Bello and J. K. Simmons) also seem preoccupied with his sexuality.
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I told him there they were all preoccupied with health and activities like yoga.
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Teenagers are often preoccupied with getting good grades, preparing for college and having fun.
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It depicts a president obsessed with his image rather than preoccupied with his job.
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And the president's trade war with China has increasingly preoccupied the markets, analysts said.
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Both buyers and developers, typically preoccupied with skyward apartments, are reconsidering the lowly basement.
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What an audacity to build a novel around a character preoccupied with self-erasure!
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We Americans have been preoccupied with the length of our vacations for some time.
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He's so preoccupied keeping up with the neighbors that he nearly loses his mind.
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Notre Dame fans, far more preoccupied with U.S.C. and Michigan, give B.C. only 2.
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Full of detours and backward glances, the narrative is centrally preoccupied with time itself.
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College presidents are also increasingly preoccupied by (and worried about) budgeting and fund-raising.
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I've heard that before about 'was I preoccupied' — not at all, not at all.
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She's less preoccupied by scenes of abuse than the psychological toll of its threat.
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Ripperologists—enthusiasts who study Jack the Ripper—are preoccupied with discovering the murderer's identity.
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That may be the best win that senators preoccupied with Medicaid can hope for.
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"The couple seemed preoccupied, so I left without getting an email address," he clarified later.
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Five years ago, think-tank leaders were preoccupied with combating terrorism and mitigating violent conflict.
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Arab states, preoccupied with their rivalry with Iran or their internal difficulties, have little interest.
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Even those preoccupied with their own high-profile legal cases in Chicago have been transfixed.
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Those with few employees are more likely to be preoccupied with interest rates than hiring.
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The world has been preoccupied with the task of pulling people out of extreme poverty.
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She's more preoccupied with sweeping the dog's droppings off the driveway than with student protests.
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The authorities were preoccupied, and he sneaked back into St Petersburg to continue his studies.
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Forgive Brown if he was preoccupied, because he's got his impending child on his brain.
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For more than twenty years, Keister has been preoccupied with pre-Columbian forms and figures.
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You're preoccupied with food, alternately fascinated and tortured by its sight, sound, smell, or mention.
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Preoccupied with the 787, Boeing was slow to respond with its own revamp, the 7773MAX.
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The Kavanaugh confirmation process provided the otherwise preoccupied and busy nation a moment of clarity.
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Preoccupied with obtaining food and medicine, most Venezuelans have limited energy or time to protest.
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What do they have to show for the effort that preoccupied their time in college?
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And, as in most horror films preoccupied with sex, a woman is the infected protagonist.
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Her aides, meanwhile, are preoccupied with the annual list of the 50 hottest Washington staffers.
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European governments, in particular, are preoccupied with the migrant crisis in the region, he said.
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People are more open to update their views when they aren't preoccupied with defending them.
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They are preoccupied with luxury, appearance or anything that signals wealth, beauty, power and success.
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Or being so preoccupied with other things that are going on in our adult world.
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How do you react when people seem to be preoccupied with what the transition entails?
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We move through our days preoccupied by our own priorities, self-preservation our North Star.
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Later in October, investors will be preoccupied with the election, which takes place on Nov.
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Newfoundland is preoccupied with budget problems brought on partly by the collapse of oil prices.
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Now, it is true that I've long been preoccupied with the darker side of humanity.
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A lot of the big questions I'd been so preoccupied with — What music is popular?
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Toting signs and chanting, people seemed more preoccupied with Mr. Macron than with the law.
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She is also still preoccupied with her feelings for Barnett, which he explains to Amber.
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Trump is preoccupied with getting China to announce a massive purchase of U.S. agricultural goods.
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But he didn't seem worried, or preoccupied with the task of representing an entire community.
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Even when Mr. Trump was off the clock, he appeared preoccupied by the world outside.
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"I wasn't preoccupied with the NFL, I was ashamed with what's taking place," Trump said.
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When her daughter is deployed she is preoccupied with other concerns: Is Sarah's location secure?
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That's why I wouldn't be too preoccupied with a jobs number of 100,6900 or 250,000.
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They'd been too preoccupied by their apocalyptic speculations to notice how long he was gone.
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What preoccupied the Greeks — the shepherds, the oracles, the hunt for Laius's murderer — falls away.
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Where other artists focus on human anatomy, Odegaard seems preoccupied with erotic and fetishized materials.
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People with gambling disorders become preoccupied with the action and the rush associated with gambling.
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Like many albums preoccupied with death, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
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I am so preoccupied with my vanity that I almost forget David getting the same makeover.
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Ransom, the county archaeologist, was preoccupied with an oak tree and its 350-year-old roots.
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In a time where we are increasingly preoccupied with identity, camp feels more relevant than ever.
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Before long, however, it was moving vans rather than cars that preoccupied Herbert and George Pratt.
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And it has greatly preoccupied Macron's government, which has made little progress in stopping the uprising.
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Not to mention, kids are often preoccupied with books or screens while riding in the backseat.
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With other students I did, but as I said, he was very preoccupied with other interests.
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God, perhaps preoccupied with a tricky black hole, has so far declined to offer a comment.
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The US and Europe were our strongest allies, but now they're preoccupied with their own problems.
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But repression has worked: people seem too scared and preoccupied with survival to sustain mass protests.
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Maybe these crazy kids will figure it out one day, but for now, they're both preoccupied.
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For now, financial-market Kremlinologists are preoccupied with which assets to hold and which to avoid.
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Why is everyone so preoccupied with a ship in a bottle that was entered into evidence?
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Houston said that while she was preoccupied with work, Nettles just couldn't wait to start living.
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However, in both films, Rey's seemed too preoccupied with other stuff to concern herself with dating.
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Instead of focusing on economic reform, Mr Xi appears more preoccupied with tightening his political grip.
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And when her father does stop by, he is preoccupied with plans for a second wife.
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Fifteen questions established each participant's "drive for muscularity"—essentially, how preoccupied they were with being ripped.
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If you are preoccupied with the past, you will have a lot of difficulty moving forward.
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Because of this human obstacle, I chose to run the vacuum when my preschooler was preoccupied.
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Since Mr. Christie ordered the shutdown, he has been preoccupied with a series of political setbacks.
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Political discourse, reasonably enough, is preoccupied with unemployment and wages, with matters of policy and economics.
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Are you "preoccupied with fantasies that the world is ending because of the selfishness of others"?
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After the roller-coaster year of 2018, investors will be preoccupied trying to look round corners.
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She was in the midst of filming and she seemed a bit preoccupied, but not overly.
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It remains one the biggest questions in biology, and has preoccupied scientists for hundreds of years.
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They're so preoccupied with being the center of attention that they rarely take time for introspection.
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Maybe you really didn't notice because you were a kid and were preoccupied with something else.
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The analysis was released Thursday, while most of the city was preoccupied with the Mueller report.
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Also, she was preoccupied with a trip to Europe they were planning a few days later.
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How that money might be spent is a question that has long preoccupied Russia's oil industry.
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It tackles a theme that has long preoccupied her: the blurred boundaries between fiction and reality.
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But Fleury made it clear that he was most preoccupied with meeting milestones on the ice.
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Eleven percent liked toys, and one cat was preoccupied with the smells of catnip and gerbils.
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Though the characters don't seem preoccupied with the day's news, "Gook" captures the area's racial tensions.
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By contrast, Mr. Jean-Raymond is preoccupied with essence, with an ability to make it personal.
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By contrast, Mr. Jean-Raymond is preoccupied with essence, with an ability to make it personal.
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Perhaps he was preoccupied with another bill, which guts the powerful anti-corruption commission, the KPK.
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"I'm always preoccupied by the painting that I want to do tomorrow or today," he said.
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She isn't in any hurry, and she's preoccupied with a relaxing and anticipatory sort of arithmetic.
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The notion that someone with this sort of mindset could win the presidency preoccupied America's founders.
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He isn't preoccupied with physical likeness, for starters, and regularly casts women in male roles onstage.
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But the president seemed more preoccupied with his image than the deep divisions in the country.
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She stopped hanging out with her friends and appeared preoccupied even when she did see them.
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Lucas is preoccupied with Max, his once and future love, and Dustin has that pesky baby demogorgon.
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Investors have been preoccupied with the trade fight all week, though the immediate market reaction was mixed.
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By that time, Allen said, he was preoccupied with running another company in Seattle with Gates — Microsoft.
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Now it's clear that Austen was preoccupied with the stuff from the very beginning of her career.
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Francis has tended to downplay the fraught moral hand-wringing over sexual ethics that preoccupied his predecessors.
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Tough executive branch oversight, which preoccupied Obama-era Republicans, vanished when their party won the White House.
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Mr Xi is preoccupied with managing affairs at home and asserting control in seas nearby (see article).
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He became increasingly preoccupied not with heroism but with bureaucratisation, and not with change but with decay.
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They show that President Trump was preoccupied with a salacious dossier compiled by a former British spy.
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The U.K. has been preoccupied by its own political uncertainty since its anti-EU referendum last month.
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Brussels will be preoccupied with getting a new commission approved by the European Parliament by November 1st.
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In all his work he was preoccupied with existential questions of life and death, physical or spiritual.
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Few of these efforts have been tried by Arab governments, which are often preoccupied with other problems.
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I don't know, exactly, what she'd said, other than the paper didn't work, because I was preoccupied.
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So, moving forward, if what I'm preoccupied with is: What is going on in this fucking country?
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That's something for you to ponder as Venus moves through Virgo, a sign that's preoccupied with improvement.
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More than half a millennium later, conspiracy theorists are still preoccupied with the wombs of royal women.
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It's important to remember that everybody is very preoccupied with themselves, and nobody is looking at you.
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Much of the prologue seems preoccupied with establishing what Morris isn't interested in talking about or revealing.
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Since then, international players have been preoccupied with other issues, including the battle against the Islamic State.
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Alyssa, a therapist, is so preoccupied by the situation she can barely treat her (rather dull) patients.
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Today Iraq is preoccupied with its own fighting, and the chief puppeteers are again Turkey and Iran.
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But Anna is preoccupied and focused entirely on her sister Elsa's weird behavior, and doesn't even notice.
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I was wholly preoccupied with imagining what I would do if that knock at the door came.
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Suicide of the West is preoccupied with the influence of what could be called Social Justice Inc.
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And yet, as he often observes, most people are too preoccupied by fear to appreciate stinging insects.
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Engstrom noted that tech geeks aren't typically preoccupied with politics, at least not when they're starting out.
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The Moon is in Earth sign Virgo, a sign that can be preoccupied with analysis and perfection.
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You're usually not obsessed with worldly success, but you're preoccupied with it now that it's Aries season.
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It is preoccupied with concerns about "reverse racism," about efforts to fight continuing discrimination unfairly harming whites.
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The Trump administration has been preoccupied by G-7 over the weekend, and the North Korea summit.
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The Vampire Weekend of today is preoccupied with all kinds of collapse, emotional and ecological and interpersonal.
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At first, we are told that Dixon is preoccupied upstairs and won't be able to greet us.
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It's worth noting, though, that the most jolting song here is the one least preoccupied with yesteryear.
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Prosecutors said he had become accustomed to a lavish lifestyle and was preoccupied with clinging to it.
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Far from his relatives, he became even more preoccupied in his work with family dynamics and bonds.
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However, even that figure is wrong, but a Democratic primary is no place for the factually preoccupied.
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One employee said that Charter was more preoccupied with preventing its staff from talking to the media.
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Trump is preoccupied by the economic impact of coronavirus — which, to be fair, has already been catastrophic.
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Cheryl becomes preoccupied with an actress playing a "beautiful black mammy" billed only as the Watermelon Woman.
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Though Boko Haram was hierarchal, it was also fragmented, each division preoccupied with ensuring its own survival.
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In 1989, President George Bush was preoccupied with a summit meeting in Malta with Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
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She was preoccupied with the tensions in the Middle East and believed that global conflict was imminent.
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I was preoccupied with starting a new job and impatient and agitated, but Frank insisted on coming.
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This problem preoccupied Le, along with a Brain colleague named Tomas Mikolov, for the next two years.
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The mentors and parents who used to rejoice in our achievements are preoccupied with their own declines.
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When Ambrose (Chance Perdomo) wasn't busy searching for Faustus with Prudence, he was preoccupied with Sabrina's dilemmas.
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Varble is preoccupied with clouds at the smallest scale, a realm that is paradoxical and poorly understood.
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As axi0mX's exploit was released publicly, we imagine the company is a little preoccupied at the moment.
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Nevertheless, Yoshiko is a little preoccupied with what she sees as the approaching end of her life.
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There he became preoccupied with cuttlefish, collecting them from the fishermen who had no use for them.
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You can tell that Angela is really preoccupied with what is happening to the women in those scenes.
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But the US will be preoccupied with internal struggles in the near future, and targeted minorities will suffer.
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Coal mining in Wyoming increased during the 20303s oil crisis, when leaders became preoccupied with U.S. energy independence.
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We're meeting just days before the election, and we're both preoccupied with the flawed but fierce Democratic candidate.
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For many teenagers, their minds are preoccupied with an upcoming math exam or whether their crush likes them.
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One investigator fell off of an icy roof because he was so preoccupied with setting up a camera.
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As consumers become more preoccupied with where their products are sourced, the farm-to-table movement will grow.
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Will Clayton, an American negotiator in 1947, was similarly preoccupied with getting a good deal for American producers.
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"If people become preoccupied with their weight, that could manifest itself in less healthy ways," Burke told me.
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But only Pete, a policeman preoccupied by the case, and Alan, a documentary film-maker, pay their respects.
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Was Tenor so preoccupied with whether or not it could, it didn't stop to think if it should?
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But I was inexperienced, and I was preoccupied with trying to not be the weakest on the team.
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But preoccupied by concerns over immediate economic growth, progress has been relatively slow on some key structural reforms.
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By now, however, the economics profession has become much more preoccupied by the shocks that ordinary workers suffer.
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It's been a busy week, mostly preoccupied with James Comey's Senate testimony on Thursday and the subsequent updates.
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Though Figueras appeared to offer the award to Harry, he was preoccupied with his wife for the moment!
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As with most economic data releases, the numbers had little impact on a pound preoccupied with Brexit headlines.
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"Think about when markets were completely preoccupied with issues like Y2k," Santelli said on the Santelli Exchange today.
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Another signal of addictive behavior is becoming preoccupied with smartphone use when you should be doing something else.
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The question of how we ought to comport ourselves in the public sphere has preoccupied philosophers for millennia.
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She is preoccupied with the cruelty of inattention and the rote motions that make up a person's day.
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The implication is clear: Kim Jong-un, like his father, is preoccupied with projecting force in the region.
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" He's preoccupied by press and leaks: "He began by joking that I was getting more publicity than he.
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We were hardly the first to ask: People have long been preoccupied with unusual ways to contract STDs.
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Yet many meat-eaters and vegetarians alike are preoccupied with this nutrient, and it's driving a market boom.
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Most rebel groups were preoccupied fighting Assad, and had no ability to really refocus on the Islamic State.
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Here at home, many are preoccupied with the fight against ISIS and, before that, the Iranian nuclear program.
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Once in office, he talked about policy moves like one-off deals, often becoming preoccupied with certain figures.
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And Mr. Smith was too preoccupied with finishing his Ph.D. to invest a lot of time in dating.
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But if you're really preoccupied with the possibility that your parental status works against you, keep it private.
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As much as my school day was preoccupied with watching and listening, I felt both visible and invisible.
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How can children pay attention to learning when their minds are preoccupied by the fear of school attacks?
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The drag queens and gender-nonbinary youth at such events can appear preoccupied with their own ecstatic exhibitionism.
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I can see a hint of his gapped front teeth, and he seems honestly preoccupied with his bite.
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This Eminem, the one preoccupied with his own pain, is a dazzling storyteller with ample territory to mine.
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"When I was preoccupied with my husband's illness, I didn't even notice how small it was," she said.
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Aides described Mr. Trump as generally upbeat but still preoccupied by what Mr. Barr would decide to disclose.
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One worry is just that Socrates is preoccupied with truth, and fiction doesn't even aim at truth directly.
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While Trump's theories surrounding the election are half-baked demagogy, he has reason to be preoccupied with Brennan.
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He's increasingly preoccupied by the aesthetic value of these now-vanished, all too unremarkable daily routines and rhythms.
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He adored his two sons, Franz and Marshall, but "had little talent for parenting" and was always preoccupied.
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Schmidt is preoccupied, rather, with the morbidity that permeates this unlovely household, both before and after the abomination.
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But the candidate most preoccupied with it, with the most developed plans to address it, is Elizabeth Warren.
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Americans in particular seem preoccupied by risk: How do I escape beheading by jihadists or assaults by bandits?
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Preoccupied with the resulting political chaos, the Human System becomes even more vulnerable and incapable of ameliorating ESD.
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The Bush administration, preoccupied with Iraq, chose to pursue a path of negotiation with Iran, coupled with sanctions.
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Mr. Trump, according to two people in his orbit, was preoccupied, uncharacteristically impassive but in generally decent spirits.
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Overall, the President has been far more preoccupied with the drama surrounding Kavanaugh than with Rosenstein this week.
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Mr. Pompeo met with his Mexican counterpart, Luis Videgaray, and the caravan was the issue that preoccupied them.
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On Monday morning, Mr. Trump appeared more preoccupied with the Justice Department than with the crisis in Venezuela.
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Country music is preoccupied with borders, and it treats each new incursion as an opportunity for identity crisis.
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First of all, they're preoccupied because they're buying or selling bigger companies, or being sold to bigger companies.
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Instead of thinking about my hangover when I woke up, I was preoccupied with the woman in Georgia.
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Two-dimensional random spaces, in contrast, first preoccupied physicists as they tried to understand the structure of the universe.
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Investors have been preoccupied with the possibility that far-right and anti-euro candidate Marine Le Pen might win.
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She never returned home, adapting to her new reality slowly and becoming preoccupied with the chores of daily life.
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No, she's been preoccupied with building a beauty and fashion empire that champions both shade diversity and body positivity.
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Kahn says that the UK government has been "preoccupied with forced marriages" and has specifically created legislation criminalizing it.
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The European Council's president, Donald Tusk, has sometimes been preoccupied with fighting against the government of his native Poland.
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Of course, the Warden of the North may be more preoccupied by the fact that Daenerys is his aunt.
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Rival independence campaigners and, especially, British politicians preoccupied by war in Europe helped to cause immense suffering in India.
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For better or worse, love is in the air, and many might find themselves particularly preoccupied with past relationships.
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I had the feeling that he was a bit preoccupied with other things that interested him at the time.
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The German state of Lower Saxony, which occupies another two board seats, is also preoccupied with preserving VW jobs.
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There he hit on the subject that has preoccupied him since: why some human organisations flourish while others stagnate.
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In neighboring South Korea, most people were more preoccupied with getting ready for a major public holiday next week.
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Moreover, authorities sometimes look more preoccupied with preventing wage-related protests than with resolving the issues at their heart.
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Assaults against Western targets, churches and nonmainstream Islamic groups have preoccupied Indonesian security agencies for the past 15 years.
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The father contended that the mother was unfit, couldn't support the children, and was preoccupied with her new boyfriend.
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But the political elite of the world were too preoccupied with headline-grabbing measures to head off the disaster.
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DMX's attorney, Murray Richman, tells TMZ ... it seems like X just forgot, because he was preoccupied with the trip.
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Her sons would have been in their fifties when these prints were made, yet the subject still preoccupied Bourgeois.
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That is because Rue is often so preoccupied with addiction, she is rarely has time for any romantic stirrings.
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For a universe that's so preoccupied with the soul, in this regard, Blade Runner is utterly devoid of one.
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From a general observation, people are preoccupied with careers, relationships, getting good grades, and trying to make a living.
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While Washington is preoccupied with political transition, a thawing of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia might be underway.
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It's also one that we find ourselves more and more preoccupied with discussing — and largely, that's a good thing.
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She doesn't have much to say to photogs, but she does look preoccupied by her convo with a pal.
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While Britain's politicians are consumed by Brexit, Germany is more preoccupied by the struggle to form the new government.
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The band's plea for quiet — for relief from the world's relentless beeping and buzzing — has fallen on preoccupied ears.
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One friend in the peer group was Jewish, and after the altercation, HD became preoccupied with Holocaust denial groups.
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For most of the episode, Zoey seems to be uninterested: She's preoccupied with takeout menus and her cell phone.
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I hang out with my baby and it's not as though my brain is preoccupied only by climate change.
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If the EU is too preoccupied by its own problems to accept them, Russia is ready to step in.
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You're getting shit done this morning, but later today you'll be preoccupied by love notes or other fun distractions.
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At the time of the battle, he was too preoccupied with surviving the war to dwell on his actions.
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"However, she writes, "Ultimately, money isn't such a huge issue in our relationship that we're constantly preoccupied with it.
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On a fateful date when Germans are usually preoccupied with remembering Kristallnacht — the Nazis' pogroms against Jews on Nov.
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The UC Irvine physicist was preoccupied: A dumpster fire had just erupted in a neighboring corner of physics culture.
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Though Peavy was a bit preoccupied, arguing with the third base umpire that the call should've been a strike.
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As rush hours go, this one seems oddly preoccupied with couples, groups and partnering; any loners make little impression.
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The streets were largely empty, and any unsuspecting pedestrians and drivers were likely to be preoccupied with the rain.
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It's too preoccupied with its action set-pieces to allow its characters and their perspectives much room to breathe.
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Sounds like Big Show will be preoccupied either way in what could be his last round in the ring.
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My eyes darted from Saba to the water; I was too preoccupied with his safety to appreciate the seascape.
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For two years, Britain has been preoccupied with its imminent departure from the European Union, set for March 2019.
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In addition to economic reforms, the government was preoccupied with endemic corruption, which has resisted repeated campaigns for reform.
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It is preoccupied with viral moments but creates none of its own, or barely anything even worth a GIF.
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Investors have been preoccupied by the possibility that far-right and anti-euro candidate Marine Le Pen might win.
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Joe Barnard was so preoccupied with whether or not he could, he didn't stop to think if he should.
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The narrator of "The Suicides" (1969), also unnamed, is preoccupied with a darker kind of deliverance than his predecessors.
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He was elected on a promise of restoring American triumphalism, but he appears preoccupied by the fear of defeat.
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So Jimmy mattered a lot in lots of negative ways, and in fact preoccupied Chuck to a certain extent.
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Previously they were more preoccupied with losing weight in a sport where the lightest men have enjoyed an advantage.
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Gumbel said he was aware of the Davis-Rozelle story line in 1981 but was not preoccupied with it.
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Although this discussion is preoccupied with emails, the potential applicability to certain scathing late-night Trump tweets is obvious.
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Mr Roche is preoccupied by the monarchy, beginning each of his chapters with an anecdote about the royal family.
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Rumpled and barefoot on a cold winter day, Mr. Pettibon, who turns 60 this year, seemed a little preoccupied.
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For a few months after that, Mongeau was preoccupied with her whirlwind romance, engagement, and "marriage" to Jake Paul.
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Ms. Reuter said some of her parishioners were preoccupied with fears that more refugees would be sent to Buch.
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As the years passed, he became more preoccupied with receiving recognition for what he viewed as his pioneering research.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — The beginning of a calendar year normally would seem a strange time to be preoccupied with endings.
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" – "He demonstrates tendencies to become preoccupied with his own views at the expense of taking perspective from all angles.
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He operated within Indiana's offense as a finisher, unworried about assists and too preoccupied to ever turn it over.
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Instead of being so preoccupied with your reputation, you can now share the fruits of your labor with your community.
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As revenue models shift from advertisers to subscribers, the media business is increasingly preoccupied with selling access to valuable information.
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But despite his big win, all Oliver was preoccupied by was the fact that he didn't get to see Beyoncé.
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Mainland authorities, who have been preoccupied with U.S. trade talks and other pressing issues, could soon become more hands-on.
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"As parents, we should foster a pro-health family environment rather than be over-preoccupied by weight watching," Zhang said.
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America's 300-odd Catholic bishops are mostly conservative and preoccupied by gay marriage and abortion, which Mr Trump railed against.
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With Swift's monumental birthday on the horizon, she's feeling excited about turning another year older and isn't preoccupied with aging.
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In fact, those clerics seem far more preoccupied with what they regard as the terrible maladies of the present day.
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And, since the financial crisis, Western banks have been preoccupied with repairing their balance-sheets and old-fashioned cost-cutting.
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Young was preoccupied by the 11-plus exam which divided British state-school pupils on the basis of IQ tests.
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Within seconds you're checking out your new jewelry, too preoccupied by the result to think about how it actually felt.
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So, right now, Riverdale fans are preoccupied with theorizing and hypothesizing around who this "Angel of Death" could possibly be.
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Back before we had social media, selfies and Candy Crush to keep us preoccupied, Snake was the way to go.
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Besides autonomy, Salvini is also preoccupied by allegations that his party sought funds via an illicit oil deal with Russia.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. For as long as I can remember I've been preoccupied with the night.
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The six sniffer dogs were apparently too preoccupied by all the delicious food smells emanating from passengers' snack-packed bags.
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Soon, Neff became so preoccupied with cans of spray paint that he found himself reluctant to throw empty ones away.
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Nothing. Büchler describes his practice as "making nothing happen," and the artist is preoccupied with a Sisyphean idea of work.
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This is what keeps him preoccupied as a trainer: the difference between just doing something, and doing it with intent.
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Trump pushed back on that during a news conference Tuesday, saying he was "not at all" preoccupied with the controversy.
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That question has preoccupied policymakers in Jerusalem ever since Russia's formal intervention into the Syrian civil war in September 2015.
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He's preoccupied by his own and his music's "authenticity," even though he understands that the act is ever the act.
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Mr. Stone became preoccupied with warding off government surveillance and schemed to secure Mr. Snowden's appearance in the movie's finale.
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Such moves have been rare, in part because athletes are often preoccupied with team morale and financial and branding issues.
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"Mort was always so busy, so preoccupied, that we ended up dating for 26 years," said Ms. Blatt, now 75.
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Or, perhaps, a public preoccupied with two natural disasters and apocalyptic foreign policy speeches has other things to think about.
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Yet in recent years the city became a hub for lives upended — and preoccupied — by the civil war in Syria.
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I know that there's another, darker side to this — that some of them are overly preoccupied with fame, with riches.
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IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES INTERNATIONAL: While preoccupied with Congress and the shutdown, the Trump administration remains challenged around the world.
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The shadows, outlines and juxtaposition of elements that preoccupied him are things, he noted, that early man would have seen.
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Terrified of being revealed as a loser in any arena, Trump has always been preoccupied with puffing up his image.
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Inevitably, the House Democrats will be preoccupied with investigating Trump and with the traps that he keeps setting for them.
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He asked Mr. Qader if he understood the situation, but the teenager was disoriented and preoccupied by the flight conditions.
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If you ask boomers, they'll tell you that Gen Z is overly preoccupied with influencing and creating content for money.
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Buyers and developers preoccupied with sky-high homes are reconsidering the lowly basement, as nest seekers look earthbound for deals.
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While he crafted a broad policy agenda, a White House preoccupied with Mr. Bush's re-election campaign mainly ignored it.
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"Nobody is talking about [the election] very much here right now," preoccupied instead with the coronavirus, said former Washington Gov.
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"While the world is preoccupied with the North Korean nuclear crisis, these refugees' plight has gotten little attention," he said.
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Farquharson also wrote about being preoccupied with academic success, to the point that he experienced physical and mental-health issues.
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Still, Walker is preoccupied with questions of creation, whether they concern a belted coat or the universe as a whole.
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As BuzzFeed News reported, administration officials who attended recent closed-door meetings at the United Nations were preoccupied with abstinence.
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Another study, published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, found that self-criticism leads people to becoming preoccupied with failure.
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Since retiring his Madea character last year, the prolific writer and director Tyler Perry has been preoccupied with several projects.
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But then Roiphe has always been preoccupied with appearances, writing as if the same can be said for everyone else.
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Historian Kevin Matthews told Time that by then, the Irish were largely preoccupied with the economic chaos ravaging the country.
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It's Melville — preoccupied with squids and ambergris, not to mention white whales — who has been VanderMeer's reference point all along.
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That has also spurred a global role for the PLA, which was formerly overwhelmingly preoccupied with securing China's territorial integrity.
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Past Russian behavior suggests that when the West is preoccupied elsewhere, Russia seeks out new opportunities to advance its influence.
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In the spot, Trump's campaign sought to cast Democrats as preoccupied with impeachment, even as Trump talks of little else.
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Snoke is preoccupied with Kylo resisting the light side, and Kylo kills him while maintaining his allegiance to the dark.
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Others on Capitol Hill professed to be not following the unfolding developments, which have preoccupied aides in the White House.
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The book revisits questions that have long preoccupied Luiselli — how can language be an agent of both violence and repair?
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Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should.
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But as he's become more famous, his work has turned more insular, and more preoccupied with the wages of fame.
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When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles and obstacles of their increasing age.
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That fact made them cousins to the fictional Benjamin Braddock, who from the very first is preoccupied with his future.
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Both parties are trapped in the forest and too preoccupied with who started the war to find a way out.
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These photographers weren't preoccupied with contradicting demeaning racial stereotypes or with pleading the case for the humanity of black people.
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Trump insisted to reporters on Tuesday that he was not preoccupied with the NFL controversy and that he could multi-task.
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It's an issue that's preoccupied philosophers for centuries, but only recently have we developed the technology to address this question scientifically.
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In poor countries, where climates are often hotter and more humid, public-health systems are weaker and preoccupied with other threats.
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When it comes to the science of love and pain, researchers are primarily preoccupied with understanding how people react to rejection.
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Role-playing games are often preoccupied by quests with material gains like weapons or gold; shooters by taking out an enemy.
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The White House may be preoccupied with Iran's past pursuit of nuclear weapons and its present strategic status in the region.
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Trump's spokesman Sean Spicer said that Trump was deeply preoccupied with the lives of people who helped him win last November.
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Even Snapchat's native art installation, a collaboration with American artist, Jeff Koons, is preoccupied with AR art that "fits" into surroundings.
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The fact that we as a nation are not overly preoccupied with our military or military service is a good thing.
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My saving grace during this time was that most new parents were too preoccupied with their own tribulations to notice mine.
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People can go with their gut feeling because they are distracted or preoccupied or don't have time to look into everything.
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And that's also how he will be memorialized, as a man preoccupied with pleasures of both the flesh and his conscience.
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When I had money, I'd been so free and generous, and probably very fun, because I wasn't preoccupied with my spending.
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We normally hang out and catch up on our weeks on the weekend, but I was a bit preoccupied this weekend.
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Mr Poroshenko will stand for a second term in 2019, and his administration is already preoccupied with securing his re-election.
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Bašić has been preoccupied by death since childhood, even before she lived through the 1990s war in what was formerly Yugoslavia.
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However, those of us who are often preoccupied with what and where the reality TV stars eat have another buring question.
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Deputies hoping to retain theirs will be too preoccupied by electioneering to get much done, reckons Fabio Giambiagi, a pensions expert.
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Try not to be preoccupied with the reputation held by certain colleges, and instead embrace your own individual third-level experience.
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If the crown prince's economic programme does not yield quick results, he may find himself preoccupied with fighting off more rivals.
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And sometimes you feel tired, or you feel dizzy, or you feel preoccupied by other things, and you cannot do this.
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He's been preoccupied with the process that produced the tax bill, demanding "regular order" rather than a rushed and secretive negotiation.
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Sam admits to feeling a "flash of anger" upon discovering the leak, while Will was preoccupied with a more curious detail.
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Congress has found itself preoccupied for much of the year with unsuccessful efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
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" Richard said the security concerns were legitimate: "I absolutely understand that all of our countries, and the French authorities, are preoccupied.
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Students ranged from enthusiastic to preoccupied and bored at first, but towards the end of the class, nearly everyone seemed engaged.
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I also didn't know much about her before making the film—I thought she was preoccupied with fashion and her look.
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Still, "American Assassin" seems a little too preoccupied with its next mission, given the ways in which it botches this one.
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A Palestinian source in Ramallah said Kamel has left without seeing Abbas, who had been preoccupied with a Palestinian leadership conference.
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This feels purposeful: Cunanan was preoccupied with fame, perhaps to the point of psychopathy, and he put celebrity on a pedestal.
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While the U.K. is preoccupied with national politics, the EU is looking ahead to European Parliamentary elections scheduled for May 85033.
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Even worse, average Americans are portrayed as uninformed idiots who are hopelessly preoccupied with hedonistic pursuits, mindless entertainment and pop culture.
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I'm more preoccupied with who is kissing, who is fighting, and which person probably stinks most strongly of sweat and seaweed.
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Like Henry Ford, Musk is preoccupied with the manufacturing process — Tesla's Gigafactories, in Musk's view, are more important than Tesla's cars.
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The Resistance, if it is a movement, cannot be too preoccupied with the Democratic Party as an arm of its organization.
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I feel like he's so preoccupied with the AV club that we don't really get a chance to see his perspective.
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He was close to achieving a career-long ambition, but he was too preoccupied with the details to dwell on it.
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He is married to four women and completely preoccupied with them, and he doesn't allow me to travel with my mother.
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Mr. Trump's attack on the American electoral system quickly stirred reaction from activists preoccupied with matters of international democracy and freedom.
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Granted, we're often far too preoccupied with our own arousal to pay heed to a lot of these little biological quirks.
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Paley was a feminist writer from the start, but in her first book women are preoccupied by their dealings with men.
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Being preoccupied with saving one's life produces a myopia, in which other worries unrelated to one's possibly imminent death fall away.
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To many, it is the mildest form of patriotism, and it long preoccupied German romantic writers like Novalis, Hölderlin and Eichendorff.
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And despite the tumult going on around him, Midhat is more preoccupied by his inner life than the surrounding political activity.
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At the time, the police were more preoccupied with trying to crush dissent and then protecting themselves when Mr. Mubarak resigned.
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"I am honestly not preoccupied with physical damage at this time, because it is devastating … indeed, mind boggling," Mr. Skerrit said.
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We also know that he seemed really distant and kind of preoccupied, worried, in the weeks leading up to the shooting.
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Donors are stretched in many directions, preoccupied with their own problems, and much less flush than they were two months ago.
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Years later, Arthur is still disturbed by these events and preoccupied by a paranoid certainty that the Terror remains at large.
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He was one of four dads waiting, the other three similarly preoccupied, their presence noteworthy enough to be beyond technological reproach.
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The foreign ministry on Friday summoned the Venezuelan ambassador to Lisbon to tell him Portugal was "very preoccupied" with the detentions.
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Today, different "declinist" strains have merged, from Catholic reactionaries to nonreligious thinkers preoccupied by questions of national identity and political corruption.
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Both Ford and GM are less preoccupied with financial bigness than they are with operating sound businesses and tackling new opportunities.
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According to surveys by Wilmington Trust, 8 in 10 entrepreneurs admit to being too preoccupied with their business to develop one.
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Mr. Trump appeared more preoccupied by Boeing — "big, big disappointment to me," he said — and the impeachment trial in the Senate.
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The pilots, who investigators believe were preoccupied with the landing checklist, also missed multiple warnings that the autothrottle was acting up.
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In Brussels, officials are preoccupied by the complexity of the looming trade talks and are pushing the British to be pragmatic.
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But it was competing written reports on the Ukraine matter submitted last week by Democrats and Republicans that preoccupied the House.
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"It might also have been planned to occur when Pyongyang assumes that Trump's team is preoccupied with Hurricane Harvey," he added.
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People who should otherwise be preoccupied with cleaning up their own house now have a way to shirk their own responsibility.
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Whether he actually was, rather than just preoccupied with his own political interests, is an essential backdrop to these impeachment proceedings.
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They will remain too preoccupied with preserving what they can of the power and privileges they enjoyed under the old order.
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To date, you can divide his career into neat halves, the first preoccupied with fiction and the second devoted to nonfiction.
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However preoccupied Carrère is with loss and violence and pain, his books move to endings that earn a space of joy.
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Artists and critics preoccupied with transgression love to repeat the word 'form!' to distract you from their reliance on visceral content.
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This tells us that our American leadership is preoccupied with what is not important to the average everyday citizen in America.
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Are we preoccupied with the past, concerned about the future, or paying attention to the needs in front of our noses?
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When you're pushing one thing or you're preoccupied with another, that is every single day that you're not doing something else.
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"We don't want to be preoccupied with our trauma, but we also don't want to deny or avoid it," Yehuda says.
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During my time at the Academy, I'd been too preoccupied with my own challenges to grasp the magnitude of Flipper's accomplishment.
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It is hard to when such a large portion of your mind, at any given time, is preoccupied with the possibility.
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But she was preoccupied with his four brothers, two of whom died as youths, and the demands of the family store.
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But Libya's Western allies, preoccupied by domestic politics and the crisis in Syria, would soon relegate the country to the back burner.
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Every year when we cross that summer finish line into September, our minds immediately begin to be preoccupied by one important thing.
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How do evangelicals explain their support for a thrice-married adulterer whose biographers have not found a man preoccupied with his salvation?
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While Myanmar netizens were preoccupied with a routine flu outbreak, hospitals recorded more than 2000,21 cases of dengue, according to state media.
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One thing I find myself preoccupied with is that, in an era of cellphones, everyone seems to have someone to talk to.
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Indeed, policy-makers and investors are now preoccupied with the opposite issue of how to prevent inflation and yields from falling further.
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Meanwhile, political leaders in Turkey, Britain and South Africa will be too preoccupied by domestic political challenges to consider a reforms agenda.
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Bayer will be preoccupied with reducing its debt levels in the immediate aftermath of a successful Monsanto acquisition, Dietsch told the paper.
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"He was the only guy handling the suits who was really, really preoccupied with imbuing these things with character," del Toro said.
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A foreign businessman says that so far this year ministers have been preoccupied with campaigning; in a few months that will change.
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Society is preoccupied with maintaining a hierarchy of pounds and sizes and goes to great lengths to provide scientific justification for it.
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The generals seem preoccupied with national elections they have promised to hold next year; the problems of the South get little attention.
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Similarly, having Eris in a sign that's preoccupied with the material world (say, Taurus or Capricorn) may contribute to an envious streak.
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Data journalism, the hot new trend, is too preoccupied with polls and electoral simulations to bother with the true substance of elections.
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I let Tara take this one, mainly because I had seemingly forgotten all words and was totally preoccupied with all the leaning.
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Gevers was micromanagerially preoccupied with things like travel expenses: He questioned, for example, Arthur's decision to purchase a sandwich on a plane.
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The current season of The Bachelorette has been pretty preoccupied with the great mystery that is the unhinged villainy of Luke Parker.
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At the time I said it was okay because I was preoccupied with pre-teen things, like not being bullied by boys.
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The Brooklyn star admitted she was a little preoccupied looking at the attractive men who took the stage just moments before her.
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Also, I like to be clued up on things personally, but we're all so preoccupied with discovering things about our own lives.
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Nine percent of Clinton supporters were "very concerned" about illegal immigration, while 85033 percent of Trump voters were preoccupied by this issue.
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The actor had too much nervous energy – something he described as "an intrinsically Russian" paranoia – to become preoccupied with any one thing.
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Citi's Wilson said traders have been preoccupied since last week by the extent of restarts of aluminum smelters in China this year.
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In his first play, "Sorry Robot," and now in "The Tear Drinkers," Mr. Iveson has preoccupied himself with what makes us human.
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His presence seemed to calm the Eritrean man, and it was helpful to have Sadek preoccupied while I spoke to his customer.
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Fox needs to get into digital more but is currently preoccupied with sorting out its news division and completing the Sky deal.
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When we are stressed, we may be preoccupied with deadlines, worries about getting through our commitments, and fears about letting people down.
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Top officers, grateful for perks and fearful of retribution, are often more preoccupied with pleasing Socialist Party chiefs than with national defense.
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But Merkel, preoccupied with shoring up her weakened coalition after a disastrous election, has been supplanted by the energetic efforts of Macron.
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Russia Even as the Syria discussions are proceeding at the White House, Trump has remained preoccupied with special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.
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I'm too preoccupied trying to dig a tenner out of my inside pocket with raw chipolata fingers to bother about these pricks.
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My family knows that for the next month I'm going to be a bit preoccupied, but I'm not doing the whole tour.
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Europe, the story goes, is too preoccupied with its own woes to give thrusting, emerging Asia the attention and respect it deserves.
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An artificial Christmas tree is a popular alternative to the classic, especially for those preoccupied with never-ending holiday to-do lists.
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These young people are increasingly preoccupied with social justice and activism, and commonly engaged in movements including #metoo, #blacklivesmatter and #climate change.
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Instead, lawmakers are preoccupied with legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act and modify other federal programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
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Intellectuals were preoccupied with the legacy of slavery at a moment when "scientific racism" and its relatives, including social Darwinism, were ascendant.
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That said, the program is preoccupied with blood and death, so much so that the episodes are preceded by a viewer advisory.
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We're going different directions next fall and I'm already preoccupied about how different my life will be without seeing them every day.
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The administration has been preoccupied with rewriting the North American Free Trade Agreement and a United States trade deal with South Korea.
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But while Germany's two largest banks answered one question that had preoccupied the country in recent weeks, they raised another: What next?
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The possibility that Mr. al-Bashir could slip away to a comfortable exile had preoccupied many who helped bring about his downfall.
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But that conversation is slow to happen in Congress, where lawmakers are more preoccupied with how to make flood insurance more affordable.
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Buchanan was concerned that politicians, preoccupied with re-election, were promising an overinvestment in public services, which he considered an economic problem.
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Long preoccupied with his coverage in the news media, he had tried to bring changes to how the broadcasting authority was run.
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How the company stays in business is a mystery, since the staff is full of misfits preoccupied with personal problems and infighting.
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Instead, he and his team were preoccupied with a large turtle shell that was on the other side of the same rock.
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But both are preoccupied with crises, with protagonists trying to write their own histories in the midst of events bigger than themselves.
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She was still preoccupied by a goal she had set for herself thirty-five years earlier, when she saw Price for counselling.
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Simmons, the PBS consultant, says a new generation of black churchgoers and pastors aren't preoccupied with issues of gender and sexual orientation.
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But for Mr. Trump, preoccupied by investigations that he believes are unfairly aimed at him, Mr. Sessions's decision seems impossible to forgive.
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As the months passed, he seemed only more drained and preoccupied, as if the effort of keeping it together was too much.
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The vast majority of key presidential appointments requiring Senate confirmation are unfilled; whatever people are in place are preoccupied with factional infighting.
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The George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations were fortunate to deal with a Russia preoccupied with internal crises during the 1990s.
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He is preoccupied with the coverage about him in the media, as well as with his image as a villain, they said.
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Activists preoccupied with the issue of health care assume others are uncaring because they can't recall what a single-payer system is.
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Agnes was already married then, and too preoccupied to pay attention to anything other than the events of her and Pascal's lives.
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The president "seems to be more preoccupied with China and his domestic issues," said Takuji Okubo, chief economist at Japan Macro Advisors.
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Moroccan security officials said the SDF was too preoccupied battling its Turkish foes to engage with other countries to return their nationals.
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HOLLAND As a young woman of color, when I come into work, I'm probably more preoccupied about it than my colleagues are.
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Walker is clearly as preoccupied by the natural forces and rhythms of new life as she is by the end of life.
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The generational dynamic has been accelerating in the last few years, but have you been preoccupied with millenials and clueless to others?
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This was someone who thought deeply and read widely and was preoccupied with questions not only of justice but also of style.
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But despite all the talk about sustainability, there were plenty of designs that are just as preoccupied with looking good on camera.
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As we reported ... Justin didn't make a toast at his dad's wedding, but was pretty preoccupied with Selena Gomez during the trip.
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When a woman is pregnant, she is very much preoccupied by the pregnancy and her baby - which is what she should be doing.
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It was a thoughtful gift, but I was preoccupied trying to calculate if I'd be able to roll under the seats for cover.
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They are more preoccupied by whether companies have VIEs, super-voting stock and a joint position for founders as chairman and chief executive.
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According to Mr Stach, guilt and punishment preoccupied Kafka from 1912—the year he wrote "The Metamorphosis", a groundbreaking story—until early 1915.
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The first season's rebels were almost useless, but at least useless in a compelling way, preoccupied with the dubious power of political narrative.
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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.
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Oh Jeff, you were so preoccupied with whether or not she could, you didn't stop to think about whether or not she should!
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In an increasingly visual world seemingly preoccupied by perfection, Bowie's damaged left pupil became an intrinsic and arresting part of his enigmatic identity.
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When someone buys a new smartphone, often they're preoccupied with the camera specs or the size of the screen or its storage capabilities.
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Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could make a lighter guitar, they didn't stop to think if they should.
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The goal then, of therapy, is for the individual to turn inward for approval, and be less preoccupied with how those perceive them.
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She notes throughout that concision has been her obsession since she was a child; she has always been preoccupied with cutting the fat.
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Kendall breaks down the field into six categories: the Preoccupied; Playful Pals; Double-Dealing Dads; Tiger Dads; the Grief-Stricken; and the Nurturers.
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Even if you want to perform at your best, you cannot, because you are bothered and preoccupied by the rudeness you are experiencing.
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"I believe that their presence did a lot to assuage people who were preoccupied with the fact there could be violence," Belafonte said.
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Everyone ranked above me in the welterweight division is preoccupied to fight, so I thought why not pick a fight against Nate Diaz.
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He is referred to only as "he," a self-conscious flourish in a narrative preoccupied with the disconnect between public and private lives.
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Pliskova said she was not preoccupied with the seedings of remaining players, saying that anyone who reached this stage must be playing well.
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"We are of course preoccupied by this threat and are committed to protecting the integrity of our democracy here at home," he said.
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Over the past few weeks, as the Covid-19 coronavirus has made its way around the world, I've found myself preoccupied with worry.
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The characters, Parisians who work in publishing, media and politics, are preoccupied with the impact of digital technology on their lives and livelihoods.
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If Brahms and Mozart seem preoccupied with troubling thoughts in these two works, neither piece quite fit with the "Music of Conscience" theme.
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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.
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Delbanco's riveting and unsettling book shows how questions that preoccupied Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries continue to resonate in our own.
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Foreign leaders do seem to become awfully preoccupied with American credibility when they want the US to take military action on their behalf.
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"Preoccupied," however, centers on young activists and depicts a snapshot of the Umbrella Movement, the 2014 pro-democracy uprising against Beijing's political influence.
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Marjorie had been preoccupied for some time with an activity the exact nature of which eluded her, though it took all her concentration.
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Books of The Times It would be wrong to suggest that Sigrid Nunez, a crisply philosophical and undervalued novelist, is preoccupied with animals.
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Walking through his studio, then, is only partially a revealing guide to the various offhand predilections that have preoccupied Nauman through his career.
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But policy and ideology aside, I'd imagine most Jewish voters are simply preoccupied with the same "electability" obsession that many Democrats keep expressing.
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He is not preoccupied with the sins of the Communist era, or with Twitter trolls, or with Putin's habit of shirtless horseback riding.
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On the album, most songs are preoccupied with taking a stand against the casual cruelties of the music business — Simpson is the warrior.
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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.
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The South, preoccupied with hosting the Winter Olympics in five weeks, appears to find the proposal for direct talks difficult to resist politically.
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But somehow, in a Filipino restaurant named for a meat that it cooks exceptionally well, it's the vegan jackfruit dish that preoccupied me.
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"He looked preoccupied," said Monsey Lapuelta, a neighbor of the Bowery Mission, when shown Dr. Bello's photograph from news articles about the shooting.
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Under Thomas E. Price, Mr. Trump's first secretary of Health and Human Services, the department seemed preoccupied with killing the Affordable Care Act.
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With no access to physical books in the camp, the lectures are naturally preoccupied with the almost Proustian exercise of remembering Proust's text.
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And in that, he clearly sees himself as constantly fighting a Washington establishment that is far more preoccupied, he believes, with the latter.
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We can still feel the impact on the numbers, but we feel lucky compared to smaller places who are in a really preoccupied situation.
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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.
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The work is not preoccupied with photorealistic renderings; rather, like Kirlian photography, her portraits document resonance, the fields of energy that encompass her subjects.
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Preoccupied by troubles at home, he may see stability as in his interest and resist taking aggressive steps that would cause an open breach.
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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.
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But with EU preoccupied with the loss of major member Britain, Swiss officials fear, chances are fading for a quick deal with outsider Switzerland.
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Riding in a motorcade through empty Moscow avenues, he confides that the succession of power, a central theme of Russian history, has preoccupied him.
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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.
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So preoccupied is the film with this theme of restoring childhood innocence that it forgets, at times, to build coherence between its two narratives.
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Until recently, the Iraqi government and Kurds alike had been too preoccupied by the fight against ISIS to hash out their disagreement over Kirkuk.
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His findings lead him to believe the Hand is preoccupied with New York City, also home to the rest of the would-be Defenders.
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They become preoccupied with the Balkans and the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia to halt human-rights abuses by its forces in Kosovo in 13.
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In fact, great tequila makers are too preoccupied with getting the highest quality agave to even think of using another cheaper source of sugar.
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For example, the Wall Street Journal reported last September that CEO Tim Cook was overly preoccupied with depictions of excessive violence, profanity, or sex.
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Meanwhile, multiple investigations into Trump associates' contacts with Russian officials are proceeding apace, a swirl of controversy that has preoccupied Washington, including Trump himself.
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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.
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The Framers were thus preoccupied with stemming corruption—an age-old challenge made all the more urgent by the Founders' experience under British rule.
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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.
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The memories of their great romantic past have faded and most of their friends (read: the United States) are preoccupied with their own problems.
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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.
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The Composition paintings alternate between two- and three-dimensionality, which distinguishes them from those of their American counterparts, who were largely preoccupied with flatness.
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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.
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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.
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I hit the streets, and had no problem blending in with the majority of other folks in New York City preoccupied with their phones.
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He was too preoccupied with leveling the playing field with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal to think about outclassing the field to this degree.
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Markets have been concerned Congress and the White House will be too preoccupied with the investigation to push tax reform and other stimulus programs.
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Perhaps he was preoccupied by fighting with Arabic gum and lumps of leek, hiding in a secret cuberdon lab somewhere, preparing for his comeback.
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Kavita is deeply — and somewhat depressingly — invested in her career, Ali is preoccupied planning her wedding, and Becca struggles with creative pursuits and dating.
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When I was 22 months old, my mother gave birth to twin boys, and, needless to say, she became rather preoccupied with their needs.
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It feels germane to "The Romanoffs," because many of these characters are preoccupied with how they come across to people who barely know them.
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Some of the questions that preoccupied Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries continue to hold an eerie and urgent resonance in our own.
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It is difficult to do anything well; it is basically impossible to do something well while preoccupied by the massiveness of the undertaking itself.
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With President Trump in the White House and European and Arab leaders preoccupied by their own troubles, the pressure has now all but disappeared.
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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.
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But as I wrote last year after seeing the first couple of episodes, the show seems preoccupied with asserting the Times' significance and authority.
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And, these days, 16-year-olds seem more rightfully preoccupied with living long lives, if the planet — and those who control it — let them.
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They were more preoccupied with the photo booth, which printed out the black-and-white photos as if they were being sent via iMessage.
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But all of this seems a decidedly remote possibility at the moment, with many of us Earthlings preoccupied with more immediate, less lofty matters.
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For weeks, Mr. Trump has been preoccupied with Mr. Bloomberg, a former New York City mayor and late entry to the Democratic presidential race.
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While his coronation as a King of Comedy may never materialize, this demonstrates that his brain is not entirely preoccupied with his physical maneuvering.
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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.
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But the Pentagon has assumed an even more outsize role in this administration, given a chaotic White House staff and an impulsive, preoccupied president.
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Poor Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) is so preoccupied with his own ambitions that he fails to anticipate that his wife might end up running Waystar.
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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.
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It was as if, after a night preoccupied with avoiding polish, he had spotted one rogue bit, and came out to scrape it away.
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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.
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However, the two are preoccupied and saddened by what they perceive as the decline of 1960s American pop culture and begin experimenting with drugs.
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Her fate had preoccupied Thais, who cherish turtles as a symbol of longevity, and the vets had urged people to pray for her recovery.
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"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.
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Poor Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) is so preoccupied with his own ambitions that he fails to anticipate that his wife might end up running Waystar.
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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.
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These organizations began to mobilize women as Democrats and Republicans while the NLWV was still the NAWSA, preoccupied with fighting for constitutional female suffrage.
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The United States, which has long been preoccupied with wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan, is now rushing to claw back the advantage.
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This can be difficult to argue in the abstract, particularly in a moment when many Israelis are understandably preoccupied with fears of stabbing attacks.
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And the Jedi, so preoccupied with their own affairs, failed to keep an eye on the fear burbling in the populace they lived among.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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].
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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" 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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" 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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" 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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" 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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" 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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