But he also appeared preoccupied by what was left undone.
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But today he seems far more preoccupied by his voice.
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For their part, the newcomers are preoccupied by household matters.
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"CEOs are still terribly preoccupied by quarterly results," he said.
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Some were preoccupied by cultural injustices; others attacked capitalism, too.
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Preoccupied by Venezuela, the last thing they want is another conflict.
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But Mr. Trump's mind was, again, preoccupied by politics at home.
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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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Like many teenagers, Spears was preoccupied by how her parents would react.
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We're never preoccupied by the notion that we need to verify something.
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British politicians will be preoccupied by the May 210 local election next week.
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Until my daughter was nestled in my arms, I was preoccupied by fear.
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College presidents are also increasingly preoccupied by (and worried about) budgeting and fund-raising.
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She's less preoccupied by scenes of abuse than the psychological toll of its threat.
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We move through our days preoccupied by our own priorities, self-preservation our North Star.
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Even when Mr. Trump was off the clock, he appeared preoccupied by the world outside.
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They'd been too preoccupied by their apocalyptic speculations to notice how long he was gone.
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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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The U.K. has been preoccupied by its own political uncertainty since its anti-EU referendum last month.
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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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And yet, as he often observes, most people are too preoccupied by fear to appreciate stinging insects.
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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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Trump is preoccupied by the economic impact of coronavirus — which, to be fair, has already been catastrophic.
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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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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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" He's preoccupied by press and leaks: "He began by joking that I was getting more publicity than he.
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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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Aides described Mr. Trump as generally upbeat but still preoccupied by what Mr. Barr would decide to disclose.
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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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Americans in particular seem preoccupied by risk: How do I escape beheading by jihadists or assaults by bandits?
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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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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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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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Investors have been preoccupied by the possibility that far-right and anti-euro candidate Marine Le Pen might win.
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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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Mr Roche is preoccupied by the monarchy, beginning each of his chapters with an anecdote about the royal family.
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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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"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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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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Besides autonomy, Salvini is also preoccupied by allegations that his party sought funds via an illicit oil deal with Russia.
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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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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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Yet in recent years the city became a hub for lives upended — and preoccupied — by the civil war in Syria.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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" 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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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And one of the reasons why he was so preoccupied by the House of Commons was that he regarded it as the perfect cockpit for "battle, drive and dominion".
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But the bank is reluctant to make such a move, with Erdogan and the government preoccupied by slowing economic growth and eager for lower borrowing costs to spur investment.
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Let's not get ahead of ourselves, however, because Akers's choice to spotlight a sleuth preoccupied by "those impossible puzzles that burrow into our brains like splinters" is viscerally effective.
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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," S. Kirk Walsh writes in her review.
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Although Britain boosted the Paris Agreement in June by committing to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, the country, preoccupied by Brexit, is far from on a climate war footing.
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The United States has long been our big brother — reassuring for most of us, imposing for some — and now it is absent, preoccupied by Mr. Trump and his destructive excesses.
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With Iraq, Syria and Yemen immersed in civil war, and Saudi Arabia preoccupied by its region-wide rivalry with Iran, Riyadh is determined to stop the Egyptian state from failing.
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But the party is preoccupied by internal political battles over who should succeed Mr Zuma as its presidential candidate and may not revisit the question of the ICC for some time.
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"We are preoccupied by the situation in Lebanon... we are worried about its stability, we are worried about its integrity, we are worried about non-interference," Jean-Yves Le Drian said.
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He's preoccupied by the question of whether she knew she was engaged in deception, or whether she was such a zealot that she deceived herself along with her investors and patients.
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Our parents generally resented it, feeling quite rightly that if they hadn't been preoccupied by, you know, actually staying alive and so on, then maybe they'd have had a capacity, too.
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In the United States, where the right was once preoccupied by social issues like abortion and same-sex marriage, immigration surged as an issue because of the changes wrought by globalization.
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O'Connell had known about transhumanists for years, but they stayed in the back of his mind until his son was born and he became more preoccupied by questions of mortality and death.
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Balazs Jarabik of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace predicts that the new president will "try to build a state less preoccupied by ideology and more focused on offering people efficient services".
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In a market preoccupied by a potential trade war between the United States and China on global growth, safe-haven European government bonds such as German Bunds are proving a popular investment.
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The BOJ will probably stand pat, especially since the impact of any monetary easing at this point could be limited while the market is preoccupied by the Brexit risk, the trader said.
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That "millennium bug" — also known as the Y2K bug by 1999 — won this year goes to show how long America was preoccupied by, and terrified of, the dawn of the new millennium.
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But the court seemed preoccupied by how to define the limits on congressional power to restrict the president's removal authority – or even whether it's the Supreme Court's job to provide that definition.
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The New Zealand killer was also an 8chan denizen preoccupied by the notion of "white genocide," and the Poway shooter saw attacks on mosques and synagogues as two sides of the same coin.
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Sex Education is the first instance I can recall of a protagonist not constantly preoccupied by the need for validation through sex and love, but whose journey is even more fundamental than that.
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In a market that has plenty to worry about, whether it be the Senate health care bill, retail's demise, or impending deflation, Jim Cramer says it is preoccupied by one thing only: Amazon.
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He's spent much of his life and career preoccupied by the mysteries of compulsion, and fascinated by how there's only a few degrees of difference between a good person and a bad one.
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Strains of maternal and ecological horrors underpin this story; Amanda is preoccupied by "rescue distance," or her ability to protect her daughter, and a poisoned environment figures into a child's monstrous transformation. WHY?
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Game developer and Carnegie Mellon professor Paolo Pedercini, who created the existential vignette game Every Day the Same Dream about white collar employment, is preoccupied by the portrayal of labor and capitalism in gaming.
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His proposals have been slow to gain traction so far, with his GAFA tax plan dividing EU member states, while Berlin, London and Rome have been preoccupied by domestic politics over the past year.
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Watching the trade war from Tokyo, there's a strong sense of déjà vu and relief that President Trump, preoccupied by China, hasn't put much muscle behind his threats to slap tariffs on Japanese automobiles.
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Watching the trade war from Tokyo, there's a strong sense of déjà vu and relief that President Trump, preoccupied by China, hasn't put much muscle behind his threats to impose tariffs on Japanese automobiles.
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Preoccupied by domestic struggles against populism, countries such as Germany have become "more inwardly oriented" and have often failed to challenge real and pressing threats to human rights around the world, the report claims.
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The artists I'm most preoccupied by now are the painters Léon Spilliaert and de Chirico, and the photographer Miroslav Tichý, who made thousands of pictures with homemade cameras of women in the Czech Republic.
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Those scenes stand in stark contrast to the steely figure she presents post-assassination, one preoccupied by the optics of her husband's funeral to the chagrin of President Johnson (John Carroll Lynch) and his advisors.
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"France is following the situation in Cameroon carefully and is preoccupied by the incidents that took place over the weekend," foreign ministry spokeswoman Agnes Romatet-Espagne told reporters in a daily online briefing on Monday.
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Typified by a lack of empathy, men who exhibited hostile masculinity were preoccupied by what they could get out of a woman and showed relatively little consideration for how she might feel about their relationship.
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There is much in Hadley's novel to distract you from its core discussion on gender and art: Christine is preoccupied by her duties as a mother, as the person who buys flowers and cooks pasta.
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On this small forum alone, there are more than a hundred posts that use "torture" or "abuse"; dozens from those who are five, 10, 15 years out and still preoccupied by their experiences in wilderness.
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Communication can feel a little blocked when Mercury's in Taurus; however, you have a mind that's constantly preoccupied by other dimensions, so perhaps Mercury in grounded Earth sign Taurus will do your brain some good.
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Others that Reuters spoke to in Phuket who had seen the videos, including friends and relatives of the dead girl's parents, said they were too preoccupied by the tragedy to report the incident to Facebook.
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While millions mourned her, and thousands gathered to light candles or lay flowers in her memory in Kensington Gardens close to her residence, the palace — preoccupied by protocol, precedent and duty — maintained a frozen silence.
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He has been told to lean more on the experience of career professionals, to become more confident in taking initiatives separate from a White House preoccupied by investigations and, above all, to move more quickly.
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But while the Clinton campaign once again managed to foster the perception that they're preoccupied by information over-control, we shouldn't let their odd behavior get in the way of interpreting the facts we have now.
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While everyone else took in the impressive volumes and astonishing views, he seemed preoccupied by the question of which of these spaces, now taking form in raw steel and concrete, would one day bear her name.
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One person who spoke with Mr. Trump over the holiday weekend said the president-elect had appeared to be preoccupied by suggestions that a recount might be started, even as his aides played down any concerns.
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Drunk on beer and preoccupied by the prodigious carnal possibilities, young men and women danced their way along Avenida Oceânica as Brazilian pop icons performing atop giant motorized stages exhorted them to jump, party and celebrate life.
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With the Trump administration preoccupied by tax reform, some market participants see relaxation as more likely than a repeal, which could be politically unpalatable and open the door to tighter terms, if not necessarily to higher leverage.
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Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, is supposed to be handling the brief, but he is preoccupied by a Congressional probe into what exactly went on between the Trump campaign and representatives of the Russian government.
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These parallel foreign policies could co-exist when Trump and his closest advisers did not actively pursue different objectives or when the president was distracted and preoccupied by domestic policies and simply gave verbal succor to Putin.
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At the same time, law enforcement agencies are unable to cope with this growing threat, the region's leaders are not recognizing the scope of the problem, and the international community is preoccupied by fast moving news cycles.
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Ms. Gremminger said the owner was preoccupied by her infant during the flight and did not check on the pet, which fell eerily silent after barking during takeoff and as the plane ascended to its cruising altitude.
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We were a bit preoccupied by all the talk of how much pain Jorah was about to be in to pause and read all the details in that giant book Sam was using for guidance on the process.
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The exhibition forces viewers, who often wander through museums half preoccupied by their cellphones or by taking selfies, to recognize the benefits of slowing down to look at works of art for longer than a cursory thirty seconds.
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One reason, he says, is that whereas in December voters were preoccupied by the PP's corruption scandals, this time the run-up to the vote was dominated by the failure of the left to reach an agreement to govern.
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"If this ends now, it will be over for at least a year ... The Russians will steamroll — taking advantage of a U.S. vacuum," the Western diplomat said, referring to fears Washington will be preoccupied by November's U.S. presidential election.
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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 3,477 people died and another 391,000 were injured in the U.S. in 2015 because either they or another driver were preoccupied by their mobile devices and weren't paying attention to the road.
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While workers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were carrying out search and rescue operations and getting food and water to thirsty people, the president was preoccupied by a feud with National Football League players kneeling for the national anthem.
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Calling for dialogue among all to resume, France, Britain and Germany — parties to the 2015 pact — said on Sunday they were preoccupied by the escalation of tensions in the Gulf region and the risk the nuclear deal might fall apart.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France, Britain and Germany said on Sunday they were preoccupied by the escalation of tensions in the Persian Gulf region and a risk of Iran's 2015 nuclear deal falling apart, calling for dialogue between all the parties to resume.
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Hollie McNish's poem, "What's My Name Again," voices these realities in anecdotes about having a few hours to herself at best, being endlessly preoccupied by her child's every waking (and sleeping) moment, and, in many ways, losing her sense of self.
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Heading into the current stalemate over border security, Republicans saw Schumer as more willing to cut a deal on wall funding and dismissed Pelosi as preoccupied by her scramble to overcome internal defections and secure 218 votes to become Speaker.
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Yet with Merkel's power diminished as she heads towards the exit, Macron himself preoccupied by months of "yellow vest" protests against his economic policies, and Europe distracted by Brexit, the momentum for reform that he had sought is largely lost.
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Calling for dialogue among all to resume, France, Britain and Germany - parties to the 2015 pact - said on Sunday they were preoccupied by the escalation of tensions in the Gulf region and the risk the nuclear deal might fall apart.
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But some bankers said the reform program was far bigger than the Aramco IPO and, despite the possible political fallout, many changes could still go ahead, or even accelerate, now that senior officials are no longer preoccupied by listing Aramco.
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They can also prepare for an "interrupted" workplace (in which employees require more time than usual for personal affairs and may be otherwise preoccupied) by embracing asynchronous workflows, laying out clear priorities for deliverables, and providing flexibility beyond standard office hours.
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Preoccupied by the reckless mission that had brought her to town — the hope of meeting her fiancé, Mykola, who serves in the auxiliary police — Yasia had scooped up the children, taken them to her cousin's workplace and gone about her business.
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However, it is hard to fathom why a rival Russian- and Iranian-backed Syria engulfed and preoccupied by a civil war is more dangerous to Israel than the Russian- and Iranian-backed Syria of old, which had no depleted military.
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Washington (CNN)The White House on Monday sought to project an image of productive forward momentum, even as President Donald Trump and many of his aides remain sidetracked and preoccupied by dual accounts of a warring and mutinous West Wing.
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Once preoccupied by family and community — by simple survival — Americans, in the full flush of post-World War II prosperity, now felt liberated to self-actualize through EST (Erhard Seminars Training), HPM (the human potential movement) and other important-sounding acronyms.
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PARIS, July 14 (Reuters) - France, Britain and Germany said on Sunday they were preoccupied by the escalation of tensions in the Persian Gulf region and a risk of Iran's 2015 nuclear deal falling apart, calling for dialog between all the parties to resume.
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After the Paris attack, news organization around the world informed readers that life in the city had stopped in its tracks— that it had become, as Time magazine put it, a "city gone still," a place utterly preoccupied by the immediate suffering.
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Already preoccupied by Brexit, Iran, Ukraine and its own future, the EU managed the equivalent of raising its collective head, flicking its eyes in Madrid's direction, announcing the referendum and the violence a Spanish constitutional issue, and slumping back to Brexit talks.
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The Middle East is preoccupied by events in the Gulf, amid fears that tensions between the U.S. and its Sunni Arab allies on one side and Shi'ite Iran on the other could escalate into hostilities likely to threaten oil revenues and regional stability.
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I was around 12 years old at the time in Nepal, and even though I was mostly preoccupied by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and WWE (WWF then), I remember vividly how big of a deal it was that this movie was coming out.
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This year, with Trump's legislative agenda stalled and Congress preoccupied by Trump's firing of former FBI director James Comey, the House Republicans known as the House Freedom Caucus along with outside conservative groups are again demanding spending cuts for support to raise the debt limit.
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Liberals are so preoccupied by the "contract" between the individual on the one hand and the state on the other that they don't make enough room for intermediate associations which acted as schools of local politics and buffers between the individual and the state.
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Preoccupied by a growing anti-establishment mood across the continent, the European Union's leaders gave little thought to the idea a man dubbed "the pioneer of a new authoritarian and chauvinist international movement" by Germany's deputy chancellor could take power in the United States.
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"The press is always going to be preoccupied by the campaign, but they have a particular challenge this year because the debate has been so devoid of discussion of the issues, and — for better or for worse — the election is super interesting," Mr. Siewert added.
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The former uses evil squid-bodied robots, the latter privileged human elites, but both works see humanity too distracted and preoccupied — by a full-scale replica of late-90s reality, or just sports on TV — to even be aware of the actions of those in charge.
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It was the latest in a long series of statements by Mr. Trump suggesting he would like to see criminal investigations of opponents including Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and the Democratic National Committee, and it came as the president seems particularly preoccupied by Mr. Biden's candidacy.
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And President Trump was preoccupied by legal clouds back home, tweeting angrily that there was nothing illicit about his business ventures in Russia, a day after his former lawyer Michael D. Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the extent and duration of those dealings.
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Ms. Fendi is just 59 and yet lately she, too, has been preoccupied by an almost military utility in men's wear, as she said before her presentation, and by clothes that have at least the interior functionality she invests in one of her brand's famous Baguette bags.
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That's why I am preoccupied by issues like whether we have enough black and Asian magistrates, judges, and prison officers, so that when people come into contact with the system they find themselves interacting with a range of people, including some who look like they do.
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But after a week preoccupied by NFL protests, Republicans resurrecting the specter of Obamacare repeal, and a new push on tax reform, what to do about the 800,000 or so young immigrants who grew up thinking of themselves as American has more or less fallen off the national radar.
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"Over the course of the next 13 minutes or so, she quietly but clearly told me that she had very low levels of energy, nothing gave her pleasure anymore, her sleep was disturbed, and she was preoccupied by pessimistic and guilty thoughts," he wrote in a 2018 Medium essay.
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German thinking has always been preoccupied by the question of whether moral causes can be more important than the well-being of the state — a question that looms large in the works of German writers, but also a question that every citizen had to confront in Germany's darkest moments.
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Trump and his aides had hoped this week's grueling itinerary through five countries would help distract from the Russia matter, though Trump himself appeared preoccupied by the issue as he departed the White House on Friday, unleashing a stream of tweets as Air Force One headed toward Hawaii.
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Lauer had all the time in the world for that subject — he asked several detailed follow-ups, plus allowed for an audience question on the same subject — then seemed suddenly preoccupied by the clock when it came time for Clinton to answer how she would fight the Islamic State.
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But as tensions between the United States and Iran intensified over the past week, young people have become preoccupied by anxieties about what the conflict might mean for them, discussing fears of impending war over cafeteria lunch tables and tearfully asking their parents whether they could be drafted.
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Hunger affects decision-making in a variety of ways, Benjamin T. Vincent, psychology professor at the University of Dundee, tells CNBC Make It. For example, when you're hungry you tend to become preoccupied by thoughts of food taking your mind away from "other task-relevant matters," he says.
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As her friends arrive — along with some more popular classmates that her awkward pal Valerie (Lindsay Sloane) is hoping to impress — the Spellman household is preoccupied by the arrival of talking furniture, a plague of hyperactive termites, an overflowing cauldron of homemade candy corn, and monstrous "Halloween carolers" from another dimension.
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The government, preoccupied by a coming referendum on Britain's membership in the European Union and wary of further fights with Parliament, pulled back from radical changes like influencing BBC programming, though the changes in how the BBC is overseen are a delicate topic, given its strong tradition of editorial independence.
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The juxtaposition of high pageantry and low name-calling, on the first day of Mr. Trump's state visit to Britain, captured yet again the odd swath that this president cuts on the world stage: impulsive and erratic, delighted by a lavish welcome but preoccupied by petty feuds or events back home.
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A novel preoccupied by what Apley himself calls "continuity" naturally enough suggests a sequel, and we get glimpses of what Marquand might have gone on to extrapolate: George's son, John, wounded in World War I before marrying a divorcée, refuses to join his father's law firm and has a certain Lost Generation aspect.
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Ever since the penthouses at two new 21.7th Street towers — 220 Park Avenue, between 2000th and 2117th Streets, and One2000, near Seventh Avenue — went under contract for about $213 million about three years ago, developers, brokers and the real-estate news media have been preoccupied by the highest end of the market.
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Put your hand in the air if you spend most Super Bowl second halves preoccupied by a Monday morning presentation for your boss, or by the simple fact that you'll need to get up and go to the office, even if you promptly spend the morning in the restroom, revisiting the halftime spread.
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Regarding your question about whether you can "finally fix" longstanding structural problems in our society, each new wave of college graduates fixes on this type of abstract, ideological goal only to find themselves far more preoccupied by the more quotidian battles of finding work, paying rent, making meaningful connections with each other.
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When the designer Azzedine Alaïa, the last of the great couturiers, a man who could make a dress from sketch to stitch, died unexpectedly in November of a heart attack, the fashion world was first shocked and then deeply saddened — and then preoccupied by the inevitable question: What would happen to the brand?
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"There is a danger of your being generally disliked by your colleagues and subordinates because of your rough, sarcastic and overbearing manner," she warned the prime minister, who was otherwise preoccupied by the prospect of imminent Nazi invasion, a scheming foreign secretary, a restive backbench, and the absence of material support from the United States.
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The problem with British ones is that they are so preoccupied by crisis management—getting the deal over the line if you are Mrs May, engineering a general election if you are Mr Corbyn, or salvaging "true Brexit" if you are a Brexiteer—that they haven't got any time to think about what actually caused the crisis.
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The checklist for this syndrome in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) includes: "has a grandiose sense of self-importance", "is preoccupied by fantasies of unlimited success", "believes that he or she is special and unique", "requires excessive admiration" and has "unreasonable expectations of especially favourable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations".
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Big City In an ordinary summer, a season in which we were not preoccupied by recurring instances of terrorism, police violence and a raucously operatic presidential election threatening the fate of the republic, an incident of the kind that took place in the marshlands surrounding Jamaica Bay, in Queens, on an atypically cool evening might have easily ignited collective tensions.
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The U.S. data's impact was muted, with the market generally preoccupied by Britain's future in the EU. As opinion polls continued to show the "Leave" camp moving ahead before the June 23 vote, and Britain's biggest selling paper, the Sun, came out in favor of leaving the bloc, sterling fell to a more than two-month low of $1.4093 GBP=.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellKrystal Ball rips report saying Obama would intervene to stop Sanders Senate roundtable showcases importance and needs of women entrepreneurs Democrats: The 'Do Quite a Lot' Party MORE (R-Ky.), a major GOP fundraiser, is preoccupied by his own race, which now looks more serious in the wake of Democrats winning the Kentucky governor's mansion.
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The big picture: A European official told Axios' Jonathan Swan that in Trump's private discussions at the United Nations, it became clear to his European interlocutors that Trump was still very much preoccupied by the U.S. trade deficit with the EU. They also got the impression that Trump remained fixated on automobile imports and thought this was his strongest point of leverage over his negotiating partners.
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There are exceptions, of course, most notably Hermès, where the work of the designer Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski is generally an exception to every trend, just as the brand positions itself beyond fad — for spring, she was preoccupied by plaid (also known as tartan, and madras), in assorted perpendicular lines — but generally the Pavlovian cues of romance or perhaps wishful thinking are in the ascendant.
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On June 27, as the debate raged over whether White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders should have been asked to leave a little restaurant in Virginia, I was preoccupied by Germany's loss to South Korea, which in a wild turn of events simultaneously sent the defending champions home before the knockout round and put Mexico into knockouts despite having been routed by Sweden.
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Preoccupied by the apocalyptic horizon of climate change, the dark pulsing terror at the center of the novel, and by the "feeling of daily life," Lizzie understands — or at least, enacts — the truth that we inhabit multiple scales of experience at the same time: from the minutiae of school drop-offs and P.T.A. activism to the frictions of our personal relationships all the way to the geological immensity of our (not so slowly) corroding planet.
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In this pursuit, Serbia can therefore be expected to create, at Russia's behest, a sphere of influence by exploiting and inciting Serb minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and, to an extent, Croatia and Macedonia — leaving them weak states to dominate while it pursues entry to the European Union just when the union is preoccupied by internal challenges of its own and the international order itself is exposed to multiple uncertainties.
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There's Selvon, an athletic young man who listens to motivational podcasts while running through the estate; Ardan, his decidedly unathletic friend who spends his nights writing lyrics on rooftops and dreaming of making it as a grime artist; Caroline, an older Irish woman who struggles with loneliness and whose connection to the other characters becomes clear only late in the book; Nelson, an older man left mute by a stroke, preoccupied by memories of emigrating from Montserrat to 1950s Notting Hill; and Yusuf, who is caught up in the politics of succession following the death of his imam father.
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