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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Although it seems Deadpool isn't super preoccupied with proper spelling.
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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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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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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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Gortat was too preoccupied with Rozier to recover quickly enough.
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This time, the White House seems more preoccupied with Iran.
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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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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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It's obvious why David is so preoccupied with the wholesome show.
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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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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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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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Instead we have Trump, who seems preoccupied with creating a televised spectacle.
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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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All of a sudden, it is preoccupied with the future once more.
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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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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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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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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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For now, Chinese leaders seem mostly preoccupied with the backlog of unsold homes.
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Wayne wasn't preoccupied with these concerns the first night of his tour, though.
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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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"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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" Whaley feels a responsibility to his readers, he says: "I'm really preoccupied with realism.
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"I wasn't preoccupied with the NFL," Trump said in response to a reporter's question.
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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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"Underbug" is more about humans who are preoccupied with termites than about termites themselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Preoccupied with obtaining food and medicine, most Venezuelans have limited energy or time to protest.
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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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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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"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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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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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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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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If you are preoccupied with the past, you will have a lot of difficulty moving forward.
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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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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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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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She isn't in any hurry, and she's preoccupied with a relaxing and anticipatory sort of arithmetic.
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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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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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Mr Xi is preoccupied with managing affairs at home and asserting control in seas nearby (see article).
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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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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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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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Today Iraq is preoccupied with its own fighting, and the chief puppeteers are again Turkey and Iran.
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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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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 Vampire Weekend of today is preoccupied with all kinds of collapse, emotional and ecological and interpersonal.
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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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One employee said that Charter was more preoccupied with preventing its staff from talking to the media.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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But the candidate most preoccupied with it, with the most developed plans to address it, is Elizabeth Warren.
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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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Overall, the President has been far more preoccupied with the drama surrounding Kavanaugh than with Rosenstein this week.
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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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Instead of thinking about my hangover when I woke up, I was preoccupied with the woman in Georgia.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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So, right now, Riverdale fans are preoccupied with theorizing and hypothesizing around who this "Angel of Death" could possibly be.
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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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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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Trump pushed back on that during a news conference Tuesday, saying he was "not at all" preoccupied with the controversy.
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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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Or, perhaps, a public preoccupied with two natural disasters and apocalyptic foreign policy speeches has other things to think about.
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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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" 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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Later that month, one police officer was killed and two wounded in a shooting at a station in Zvornik, Bosnia; Trump was too preoccupied with "thugs" to notice:177.
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Focus groups still seem to be preoccupied with emotion, but the way these findings are incorporated into market research has become a whole lot more rigorous over the years.
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For a movie preoccupied with notions of ghosts and hauntings, that feels significant — a way to make sure we know there's more on the screen than we can see.
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For weeks, we've been a little preoccupied with Brooklyn Beckham and Moretz rekindling their relationship, so excuse us for not having enough chill to notice her quick hair change.
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In case you've been too preoccupied with the insanity that is the 2016 election, there has been a new trend dominating social media over the weekend: the Mannequin Challenge.
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Russian currency and stock markets, preoccupied with the threat of U.S. military action in Syria and the fallout from Washington's new sanctions, did not react to the draft legislation.
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The podcast interview was Obama's latest post-election analysis, which has focused on Democrats' failure to convince non-urban voters and a media preoccupied with negative stories about Clinton.
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BBC is my preferred outlet for daily news because it's not totally preoccupied with the current administration, not to mention the 2020 election — which is almost two years away.
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The Senate will be in full election mode when it returns for one month in September, and will be preoccupied with passing a continuing resolution to fund the government.
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They got little assistance from Yedlin and Fabian Johnson, each of whom were too preoccupied with clamping down on Edwin Cardona and Juan Cuadrado to advance the U.S. attack.
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And in Iowa, like elsewhere, Democratic voters are preoccupied with fighting President Donald Trump -- with most of activists' energy in recent months being poured into the health care battle.
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But perhaps this is why a protagonist who is preoccupied with a mystery is so slow to figure out an explanation that will long have been obvious to readers.
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After seeking psychiatric help, she seemed to be recovering, and was happily working again, though also preoccupied with the idea of leaving Hyman and creating a new home somewhere.
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Where Storr is concerned with the precarity of modern-day work, Knight is preoccupied with the tedium endured by the office-bound class: pointless morning meetings, irritating group projects.
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Reilly comes from a musical family, and his approach to the instrument was more exploratory than mine; I was mostly preoccupied with squirming discomfort from this expression of intimacy.
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This is a stroke of luck for Trump, who has been so preoccupied with the superficial drama of his presidency that he's barely mentioned the coming storm at all.
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Preoccupied with not feeling well, medical appointments and tests, taking medicine, and dealing with their associated side effects, is not a winning strategy for our children and young adults.
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Growing up, it was Mad magazines and Garbage Pail Kids that got him going, but as as an adult he's found himself perpetually preoccupied with the world of drugs.
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Ms. Ferrante's Naples novels are preoccupied with questions of authorial power, as well as with the emotional and personal risks writers face when mining their own families for material.
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I hold out a glimmer of hope that any praise for the "Muslim ban" is saved for when the youngest members of the household are preoccupied with screen time.
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Preoccupied with his own team's 2-11 start, Carlisle made it clear through his words that he was ready to steer the conversation elsewhere by the third such interrogation.
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Alain, Léonard and others in their circle are preoccupied with — and have varying professional stakes in — the enormous changes that have already happened or are just about to happen.
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For much of the past year, he has been preoccupied with a spiraling trade fight with the Trump administration, which some critics say he has mismanaged and perhaps exacerbated.
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Initially I was preoccupied with the well-being of my newborn child, but it didn't take long for me to become aware of my very different and damaged body.
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The truth is, Sheryl Sandberg has been preoccupied with her own P.R. — and has been a master of the cold science of optics — ever since she was a teenager.
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Both Excavation and My Dark Vanessa engage furiously with Lolita — and they are both overwhelmingly preoccupied with whose stories we value when we read Lolita, and whose we ignore.
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"We're preoccupied with one question," Sullivan said in an interview from the campaign's Brooklyn headquarters, seated at a busted ping pong table that now serves as a conference table.
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"Everyone should take responsibility rather than being preoccupied with settling political scores while leaving the fate of the country unknown," said Nasrallah, adding that Lebanon could face "financial collapse".
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Moreover, the president and his staff are inevitably preoccupied with the most urgent issues of the day, which often makes the agencies better equipped to pursue longer-term objectives.
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Following the November 2016 announcement, users couldn't help but notice something suspicious about improvements preoccupied with merely hiding "hateful conduct" behind opt-in mute features and enhanced content filters.
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Trump factor: The government and the police also face claims of being too preoccupied with the visit of President Trump, who arrived in New Delhi on Monday, to act.
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But for now, at least, many players aren't as preoccupied with the quantity of the prize as they are with the satisfaction and pride of completing all 12 questions.
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Here in the United States, the warring factions of Republicans and Democrats are preoccupied with the struggle to control Congress and the Iron Throne… I mean the Oval Office.
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"We are preoccupied with the situation at Canada Post ... if we don't see significant resolution shortly all options will be on the table for resolving this," Trudeau told reporters.
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Since they can't run for third terms and have weathered their final midterm elections, these presidents are more preoccupied with their places in history than with short-term politics.
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They described it as overblown, reflecting a disconnect between voters in the party's base and some political elites, media commentators and conservatives who have been preoccupied with the issue.
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It's no wonder to me that we're so preoccupied with scams right now, because a lot of people could fall victim to it in the stressful time we're in.
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While we already knew Cruz was particularly preoccupied with Facebook's alleged bias against conservatives, the senator used his written questions to ramble on about a number of other topics too.
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Cindy Simard, who is part owner of 2015-16 champion Rivière-du-Loup, says her fan base isn't preoccupied with violence, and the team is pushing a fast, robust style.
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In an exclusive sneak peek at the upcoming season, Patti Stanger takes on "Human Ken Doll" Justin Jedlica, who has a tendency to be preoccupied with looks over genuine connection.
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While he is grateful for the support he's received from El-Khatib and Drake, he's not signed to them and understands that they're preoccupied with extending their current winning streak.
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At the time, the world also was preoccupied with a sovereign debt crisis in Europe and an anemic U.S. economy that saw GDP growth of just 1.6 percent in 2011.
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A relatively unknown struggle, clinical psychotherapist Matthew Traube, MFT, tells us it's a form of body dysmorphic disorder, in which "people become preoccupied with an imaginary physical issue," he says.
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Those of us preoccupied with the provenance of our food owe it to ourselves and the animals we eat to bring that attention and respect to our cooking and eating.
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Being so preoccupied with food all the time has led me to miss out more important things in life, and I am hoping I can restore my relationship with it.
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The Americans are caught up in their election; the French initiative has fizzled in Paris; the Arabs are preoccupied with their own internal problems and with Iran and Sunni jihadis.
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Also coming into play is that on both the day before and the day of the election, investors are more preoccupied with voting than buying and selling stocks, he said.
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Also, mirrors are covered so as not to be a cause of joy or not to become preoccupied with external appearance - inappropriate in mourning or in the presence of mourners.
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Sitting in a courtroom at the Supreme Court, Gersdorf, 65, said the EU was probably preoccupied with the rising tide of populism elsewhere in Europe to focus squarely on Poland.
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I want to be surrounded by people that are not preoccupied with that, that just want to make dope shit that they believe in, and are willing to get dirty.
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Since it was first shown off back in August at IFA, Apple has announced and released their own new offering and, of course, Samsung's been slightly preoccupied with other things.
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That's because, come this fall, the global activist is going to college, which means at the moment she is, understandably, a bit preoccupied with getting an education of her own.
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In recent books like "The Lemon Table" and "The Sense of an Ending," Mr. Barnes has become increasingly preoccupied with characters looking back over the receding vistas of their lives.
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But Steadman is preoccupied with a subtler question — what was it that prevented Lord and his crew from going to the aid of a ship that was obviously in trouble?
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And the Obama administration — preoccupied with the aftermath of financial crisis and the struggle with bitterly hostile Republicans — has only recently been in a position to grapple with competition policy.
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But since the limited incursion into Afrin at the beginning of this year, the Turkish military has been more preoccupied with guarding the ceasefire in the Syrian province of Idlib.
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If Canada ratifies CPTPP, the duty-free access offered to Japanese auto parts companies could provoke politically a U.S. administration already preoccupied with rules of origin and concerns with Asia.
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The president is one of few GOP officials in favor of lower interest rates, while the bulk of right-leaning economists and lawmakers are preoccupied with fears of higher inflation.
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It would have been a nice piece of information to share during yesterday's earnings report, but Tim Cook and Co. were clearly too preoccupied with service revenues and R&D.
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Clark's apparent delusional belief system also seemed to have extended into his own wellbeing: Despite posting about having skin cancer, he also seem preoccupied with pseudo-scientific "cures" like beets.
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Preoccupied with his family's financial woes, Dillon's father, Jason Hooley, was at work and didn't notice that a 400 pound steel beam was about to fall on his middle finger.
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But it's generally after giving birth and being so preoccupied with keeping her alive and everything, that I put all that part of myself aside for a long, long time.
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It's quietly castigating, for the audience: A zombie apocalypse happens because fracking tips the Earth off its axis, and people are all too preoccupied with their own concerns to care.
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The former chef, Fujimoto, said that on one summer break from school in Switzerland in 2000, the young Kim was preoccupied with a visit to Beijing his father had made.
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"My impression was that it was preoccupied with outflanking other Wahhabi groups to attract Middle Eastern funding," said Gehan Gunatilleke, a researcher who wrote about National Thowheeth Jama'ath last year.
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As a result, even in a country such as the United States, with its powerful and much-esteemed Supreme Court, scholars are preoccupied with measuring the legitimacy of the court.
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These pieces often felt preoccupied with their imagined reception — straining to appease, convince, console — conscious of being overheard, in Rich's phrase, but this time by women as well as men.
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When her agent was auctioning her manuscript for "Women's Work," the price climbing into the stratosphere, she was preoccupied with the campaigns for Playtex and Aquafresh in her day job.
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Through much of the 20th century, it bears recalling, the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius remained a puzzling figure, an outlier from the frozen north largely preoccupied with exotic local color.
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Though this album is less preoccupied with new sounds than Drake's recent work, there are still strong shades of Memphis ("Talk Up") and New Orleans ("Nice for What") sprinkled throughout.
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But in recent weeks he has become preoccupied with the idea that someone could leak what he says on a future call with a foreign leader, sources familiar tell CNN.
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Instead, he has been preoccupied with reforming France's economy and meeting foreign leaders, a suddenly plunging popularity rating and a raft of inexperienced parliamentary deputies in his own political movement.
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But Twitterstorians have been preoccupied with more weighty matters in the Trump era, a time when the President and his followers are known for spreading dubious versions of American history.
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Six years ago, as he flirted with the idea of running for president, he became especially preoccupied with a theory being advanced by a right-wing extremist named Joseph Farah.
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But less than three weeks before the vote, the campaign is muted, with many despondent about the state of the nation and more preoccupied with finding food than the election.
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Mr. Trump, who spent much of the day traveling to Britain to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, appeared to be preoccupied with the coming fight.
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Even as members of his staff were focused Wednesday on managing the Boeing plane crisis, Trump himself remained preoccupied with the looming vote, according to people who spoke with him.
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"The United Kingdom has been so preoccupied with matters elsewhere, even at this point of crisis," said Mick Fealty, the founding editor of Slugger O'Toole, an influential political discussion forum.
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Governments and investors should instead look at ways to make economies more productive through investments in infrastructure and education — and be less preoccupied with what central banks do, he said.
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With government funding securely in place and Congress no longer preoccupied with the threat of an imminent shutdown, both chambers will likely move onto finding as solution for the DREAMers.
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Strikingly, though, his interest has a rare quality of tenderness to it, perhaps because, unlike most filmmakers who make movies about great artists, he is fundamentally preoccupied with art itself.
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At a time when many people were preoccupied with an imagined racial hierarchy, with whites on top, the disease was cited as evidence that people of African descent were inferior.
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Lest this film sound like a total buzzkill, I should note that The Secret Life of Pets' world building isn't totally preoccupied with gloom, doom, and the downfall of man.
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If all this seems a little too good to be true, the novel's heroine, 9-year-old know-it-all Sumac, doesn't notice: She's preoccupied with her study of Mesopotamia.
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That dynamic was particularly problematic for Trump, a president who gets most of his information from right-wing media outlets like Fox News and is preoccupied with his own popularity.
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So there's an upcoming election and I'm very preoccupied with being an American and hoping that I can do something for my country and that my fellow citizens will go along.
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The media mostly overlooked this, and was instead preoccupied with the back-and-forth insults between Trump and Kim and the talk of war — which the North dismissed as mere bluff.
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But she was preoccupied with issues like whether she can afford to cut down a tree threatening to fall on her house, and does not expect to be able to vote.
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"Instead of being preoccupied with drinking games, they should be concerned with the alarming number of vacancies that threaten our national security and economic stability," said a former White House official.
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To suggest, likewise, as many have, that his foremost concerns are the stuff of everyday life suggests that most of us spend our days preoccupied with love and war and God.
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Well, Swift might be preoccupied with personal matters at the moment, so instead, we bring you the ladies and gentlemen of the Julia Wallace Retirement Village in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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The sign of the Archer is way too preoccupied with learning new things, meeting new people, and chasing new experiences to worry about strategically probing their inner circle for confidential info.
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Her mother (Lynn Whitfield) — recently divorced and extremely preoccupied with how the rest of the world views her and "what people will say" — still comes over to straighten it for her.
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But slowly, as the first season progressed, the Veronica Mars fandom also found itself growing more and more preoccupied with one overwhelming question: Were Logan and Veronica ever going to kiss?
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Feld and Mendelson wrote that if a VC is preoccupied with any terms beyond the scope of economics and control, that shows you how nitpicky they might be down the line.
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But Kushner is preoccupied with Mideast negotiations and a range of other presidential assignments, and the China portfolio has settled in the hands of seasoned officials well-versed on Asia matters.
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Dan Fuss, the vice chairman of Loomis Sayles and the lead portfolio manager of its flagship bond fund, is preoccupied with climate-change solutions, in addition to delivering market-beating returns.
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It is a record of the present rather than a recreation of the past—he is preoccupied with dreams, little romantic dramas, what he feels like eating for dinner, his health.
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Preoccupied with the words that come out of Donald Trump's mouth, they are not taking "seriously" the Republican candidate's diagnosis of what is hurting the country: wars, trade and government regulations.
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In more ways than one, it's also an intensely literary film, preoccupied with language — Hebrew, which Ms. Portman speaks fluently — and preferring nuances of mood and memory to details of plot.
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Just consider the inimitable words of Ian Malcom from "Jurassic Park": You may be so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you may not stop to think if you should.
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Next thing I know, because I'm preoccupied with Russell Crowe, my mom is at the end of the couch yelling above the movie that I have soccer practice in the morning.
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Sapin said both governments were "preoccupied" with the rules currently being discussed under Basel III and would prefer that, if changes were made, that they not increase capital demands for banks.
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The piercing shops and tattoo parlors, the running jokes about everybody being in a band (or preoccupied with "artisan knots"), can sometimes obscure the lesser-known aspects of the city's identity.
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Mr. Biden's generational peer, Mr. Sanders, faces some similar considerations, and has said that he is most preoccupied with assessing whether he is the best candidate to win back the Midwest.
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But, preoccupied with Mr. Sessions's decision and determined to find a way forward, he spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting venting about it, a former White House official said.
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But it also arrives as Trump remains preoccupied with an encroaching Russia investigation, growing angrier and angrier at the widening circle of his advisers and confidants caught in Robert Mueller's web.
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She also shared a story about how he was understanding of her work schedule and even offered to take their friends out to dinner while she was preoccupied with a meeting.
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Preoccupied with bringing Mr. Assad down, Turkey opened its borders to weapons and fighters flowing to the rebels, turning a blind eye, for a time, when the opposition turned increasingly Islamist.
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They complain that a business union is preoccupied with achieving a bargaining agreement that requires workers to give up the right to strike and any say in the company's major decisions.
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You can see why it would appeal to the author of the epochal "Angels in America," a writer famously preoccupied with the moral wages of capitalism, especially in the United States.
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" Obama also hasn't held office for three years, Meyers quipping that the 44th U.S. president is now preoccupied with water sports and "gradually unbuttoning his shirt one button at a time.
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One Direction had some use for these ideas — it was always the most rock-minded of boy bands, which are usually more preoccupied with, you know, rhythm (these boys didn't dance).
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But now the world is preoccupied with problems ranging from the migrant crisis to the Middle East conflict, and will also have to deal with a new U.S. president next year.
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"The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping" is much preoccupied with this process of binding oneself into a new language, with what is lost and what is gained in such a process.
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Haig is largely remembered for keeping the government running while Richard Nixon was preoccupied with the investigation, viewed by many as the "acting president" during Nixon's last few months in office.
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Cindy Ochoa, 22, was anxiously watching, too — but she was preoccupied with another fight, counting election results county by county in the frantic campaign "war room" for her boss, Republican Rep.
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Many Egyptians saw Mr. Morsi as preoccupied with consolidating power for the Muslim Brotherhood movement from which he came, rather than acting as the transitional president they elected him to be.
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Trump's counterparts in other world capitals, from Moscow to Paris, would be emboldened to further their own self-interests at the expense of the American President preoccupied with problems at home.
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In this widely beloved novel by Judy Blume, originally published in 1970, but still on the most-challenged list, the narrator is deeply preoccupied with the when and how of menstruation.
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Critics didn't love The Rise of Skywalker, many calling it more or less what Abrams said it would be: a movie more preoccupied with pleasing fans than telling an ambitious story.
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Div has "had a number of girlfriends," according to a profile of him in Wired, and he plans on getting married some day, but, for now, he's still preoccupied with work.
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One confronts a particular episode in the history of blackface, with all its attendant pain and derision, while the other is preoccupied with a particular blue and its associations with genocide.
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The actress explained that after being married for 20 years, the two have reached a stage where they don't want to be preoccupied with the expectations that come with a label.
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"The U.S. is preoccupied with trade deficits, China is more concerned about its long-term drivers of economic growth," said Hannah Anderson, global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management on Monday.
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But so far the 2016 presidential campaign has been largely preoccupied with the question of which candidate has the worse character — including which one has the more egregious propensity to tell whoppers.
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On Sunday night, however, the Governors Awards spent the majority of its time preoccupied with the place within the industry of a group of artists who aren't a minority at all: women.
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Carrie Underwood fans also will be disappointed she's not in the lineup this year; she's off the tour circuit and was perhaps too preoccupied with the Stanley Cup playoffs at the time.
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"Ibnu Mas'ud ensures that Muslim children are preoccupied with efforts to understand their religion correctly so they become a generation that understands the religion and will fight for the religion," he says.
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Most Venezuelans are preoccupied with finding food amid a desperate economic crisis, and the mainstream opposition is boycotting the vote on grounds it is rigged in advance to assure Maduro's re-election.
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Kofinis warned that Democrats risk losing their edge on the issue, however, if they fail to heed the lesson of the 2018 midterm elections and instead become preoccupied with investigations of Trump.
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Adams is preoccupied with the idea that vaccines cause autism and injury, that heavy metals poison our food and water supplies, and that alternative medicine is safer than the traditional Western approach.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had been preoccupied with sweeping economic changes his government announced on Monday and the celebrations of International Yoga Day on Tuesday, expressed anguish about the lightning disaster.
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In the spring of 2012, while Massagué and others were searching for sleeper cells, Gilbert Welch, an epidemiologist at Dartmouth, was preoccupied with a different problem: the unfulfilled promise of early detection.
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The Democratic Party, in contrast, has consistently maintained the character of a coalition of social groups more preoccupied with pragmatically seeking concrete benefits from government than with advancing a larger ideological cause.
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I'm preoccupied with my own domestic concern: I'm headed to North Carolina in a couple days, and I'm stressed because I don't have a carrier to take my dog on the plane.
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Any Republican who took a strong stance against waterboarding or other torture techniques could be pegged as weak on terrorism — a damning charge in a Republican primary that's been preoccupied with ISIS.
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This is, anyway, the guiding principle of Eckhaus Latta, where the bicoastal Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta are preoccupied with explorations of material and challenging received wisdom about shape, gender and beauty.
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She married and divorced three men — a mobster who beat her; the conductor Leopold Stokowski, who was 42 years older and preoccupied with his own career; and the film director Sidney Lumet.
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"What I've found sticks with people seeking to be less preoccupied with something that was once very important to them is intentional grieving," said Amanda Luterman, a clinical psychotherapist specializing in sexuality.
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Both writers have been haunted by their Caribbean past, preoccupied with exploring the extent to which their birthright has shaped them and made them, like it or not, the people they are.
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As the music world awaits the release of Taylor Swift's new album, "Reputation," on Friday, the industry has been preoccupied with a guessing game: Will it be immediately available on streaming services?
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And then, being wise, she will give that up and become resigned to a sexless life — apparently because no male not totally preoccupied with teenage hormonal excess will look in her direction.
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"Trump has spent much of the past four days tending to campaign benefactors and preoccupied with his own political future," the Post's Phil Rucker, Bob Costa, Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey report.
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He confronted mainstream Protestant divinity schools, asserting that they were preoccupied with "making Christianity relevant" and that they spent more energy on courses in psychology, sociology and church management than on theology.
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But in this story, he's also actually there, a fact the movie wastes no time establishing; sometimes, it even seems more preoccupied with fitting in cool horror scenes than with building tension.
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I don't know if you've ever had that experience of driving home, and the route is exactly the same, but you're preoccupied with something different, so you forget how you got here.
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The European Union has instead been preoccupied with other dangers — populism, migration, Islamophobia — and the challenge to its values of democracy and rule of law from member states like Hungary and Poland.
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Mr. Lamar is often misrepresented as a rapper overwhelmingly preoccupied with greater social good, but here he demonstrates what feels like his real passion: insult, tough talk, the dismantling of another's pride.
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One of the most accurate depictions of depravity that It's Always Sunny has captured is how terrible people are often more preoccupied with being perceived as terrible rather than working on themselves.
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Games that share some DNA with Animal Crossing: New Horizons are often preoccupied with the obtaining and hoarding of resources in a way previous entries in the Animal Crossing series haven't been.
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Inscrutable, stubborn and pessimistic; preoccupied with historical traumas, dead writers and old movies; and yet, in spite of what looks like nostalgia and sounds like fatigue, unmistakably — defiantly — present, alive and engaged.
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In June 2014, while the Iraqi government was preoccupied with fighting ISIS, the Kurds simply seized Kirkuk, along with some other territories it considered rightfully Kurdish, and has controlled them ever since.
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Except Trump himself, has has been preoccupied with another Kim meeting, continuing his attack on Robert Mueller's investigation, and claiming ABC canning "Roseanne" over a racist tweet was really all about him.
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In a place like Ruqban, where men—if they are present at all—are typically preoccupied with safety-related tasks, women face a near-endless gauntlet of domestic work in medieval conditions.
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But if you are like me, a die-hard fan of this never-ending franchise, then you are already preoccupied with thoughts about the impending premiere of the 214 season of The Bachelorette.
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In January 2008, when Democrats were on the verge of winning sweeping control over the elected branches of government, the party was understandably preoccupied with questions of process and effective use of power.
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Sanders, in other words, is primarily concerned with proliferation and the possibility of war, while Clinton is preoccupied with a more traditional understanding of American hegemony, and the great power rivalries it implies.
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But others, particularly the poor living in Syria, are more preoccupied with the value of the new banknote (22016,20.8 pounds — the highest denomination for the currency) and what it suggests for Syria's economy.
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All archbishops in charge at that time were aware of some complaints and the archdiocese was preoccupied with protecting the reputation of the Church over and above protecting children's welfare, the report said.
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Rogers is recounting her internal monologue, concerned that her friend's long hair and short shorts might stir the locals, currently preoccupied with watching MMA on television, to direct some recreational abuse their way.
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Despite the obviously sexual and aggressive dimensions of his art, Acconci, who had studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, insisted that he was preoccupied with high-minded intellectual concepts like perception and language.
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Part of the show's liberatory beauty is its insistence on pleasure, and upending the expectation of the hardworking, sacrificial Latina, so preoccupied with respectability and family that she denies herself sex, pleasure, indulgence.
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Saudi Arabia is still preoccupied with defending its market share even though its oil minister said producers may discuss taking action to prop up crude prices next month, analyst Dan Yergin said Friday.
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I notice I'm so preoccupied with trying to come up with more positive topics of conversation that I am not listening as closely as I should be to what my friend is saying.
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Doubling down on his belief in building a sustainable and independent business, Aggarwal made a sly dig at Uber in suggesting that the U.S. company is preoccupied with short-term strategies in India.
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The Tripoli-based government that preceded the current Western-backed one, and its allied militias known as Libya Dawn, were too preoccupied with a violent power struggle against Haftar to lend much support.
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If you haven't finished your holiday shopping, you've either been slightly preoccupied with other things, or you're a shopping pro who knows that some of the best deals come right before the storm.
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She had also intended to temporarily deactivate her online dating profile, but preoccupied with work and moving plans, she left the chat-room door open, which is when Mr. Burgay entered the picture.
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Unfortunately, the new Gilmore Girls creative team seems so preoccupied with finding ways to spend this money that they completely dismantled the light magical realism that made the original Gilmore Girls so special.
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Despite successfully crossing over into the mainstream music industry years ago, Nicki continues to be obsessively preoccupied with album sales, chart numbers, and fan fervor as the show of force for her artistry.
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Likewise, the vast majority of ladies' swimsuits leave us more preoccupied with how we look while wearing them (and later once the tan lines set in) than with their usefulness for actual swimming.
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I was struck by how similar their skin color was, how both tribes were preoccupied with the accentuation of excess, and, above all, how the identities of both communities are shaped by femininity.
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This is a huge relief to many, but it also means that girls now face an enormous risk as families, which had previously been preoccupied with getting enough food, have refocused their energies.
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On the Russia probe: Trump didn't mean that the FBI missed the tip regarding the Florida shooter because the Bureau was preoccupied with the Russia investigation, though he linked the two, Sanders said.
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As pundits argue over whether or not President Trump is an obstructor of justice, a gaggle of Queens residents are preoccupied with a different question: Is the First Lady, Melania Trump, a Gottscheer?
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They are also too preoccupied with maintaining law and order to pursue complex international networks -- they were designed for a time when crime was local and have not caught up with the times.
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From Augustine and Aquinas to Luther and Calvin, Christian thinkers were preoccupied with the "problem of evil," or the question of how a good God could allow bad to exist in our world.
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Mr. Morris recalls that he had the sense that Bellamy existed in some space removed from ordinary existence and that when he spoke he was still preoccupied with thoughts from that other space.
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The four characters are so preoccupied with insult-hurling, petty politics and simmering romance that they aren't fully on guard against the possibility that they've stumbled into a village full of malevolent forces.
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That tinny, faux-cosmic synth, trying its absolute hardest to sound bigger than it is, is reflective of an era and a genre preoccupied with creating grandeur beyond its economic and sonic means.
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Yet while Trump has kept America preoccupied with a never-ending stream of executive actions, bold proclamations, and scandals, as I've previously written, most of his actions have been more showmanship than substance.
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Just like today, where we're so preoccupied with the role of immigrants in this country, how we welcome them and the degree to which they should or would assimilate into our middle class.
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Said universe is a place where people who are waiting for life-saving surgery in the universe's version of Des Moines are still likely preoccupied with whatever skullduggery the president is up to.
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Barbara Schultz, an adventurous television producer who showcased serious topical dramas at a time when the networks were preoccupied with sitcoms and variety shows, died on April 21927 at her home in Manhattan.
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" Susan is preoccupied with the thought of Ro's questioning her reasons for changing her surname: "How come nobody's allowed to criticize a woman's decision to give up her name for a man's name?
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There are times when I appreciate being reminded to seize the day — for example, when I've been preoccupied with work and my daughter interrupts to ask if I can read her a book.
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The New Health Care Last month, as Republican leaders were preoccupied with another unsuccessful attempt to replace Obamacare, a senior Trump administration official issued a warning about a different major medical program, Medicare.
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If there's any deep meaning to be taken from the trailer for Death Stranding, the Internet missed it, as we were too preoccupied with watching naked Norman Reedus crying while holding a baby.
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The RBI has also been preoccupied with a liquidity scare arising from a series of debt defaults by Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) that sparked redemption pressure at other shadow banking companies.
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Finally, in the category of strange world history: As Europe teetered on the brink of World War II, Winston Churchill was preoccupied with the question of whether we are alone in the universe.
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On the surface, these articles — written in the late 2000s and early 2010s — seem oddly dated and overly preoccupied with a 1990s-era debate over the role of technology in US military strategy.
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I look forward to a time when the nation isn't preoccupied with its leader's sheer celebrity and entertainment value, when people don't have to consider politics a horrific reality show they can't stop watching.
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Some have described a sense of feeling like they are overwhelmed and preoccupied with societal issues as they currently stand, not knowing what they can do specifically to contribute to a less hostile environment.
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When we did Google Autocomplete interviews with Angela Bassett, Gerard Butler, and Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Bell, we learned that the Internet is mostly preoccupied with celebrities' dietary restrictions, or if they're actually dead.
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Haughty and magnetic, it's a song preoccupied with its own success, and its climactic placement atop the charts not only fulfills Cardi's prophesy but heralds a permanent shift in the calculus of pop power.
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I've been so preoccupied with other concerns—mainly, what you'd expect a man to worry about—that the workout itself has been barely a second thought, and I assume that everyone else feels similarly.
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Republican leaders, who were previously preoccupied with an Obamacare repeal effort and then a tax reform bill, instead spent months asking the White House for more clarity on Trump's vision for a DACA deal.
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Get it: $69.99 (down from $200) With everyone else preoccupied with their regularly scheduled holiday binge eating, you might not have someone to hold you accountable for staying on top of your fitness goals.
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The Philippine military, for decades preoccupied with domestic insurgencies, has been shifting its focus to territorial defense, allocating 83 billion pesos ($1.77 billion) until 2017 to upgrade and modernize its air force and navy.
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Since China began opening its economy to the outside world in the late 1970s, the distillers have mostly been preoccupied with meeting domestic demand (baijiu production roughly tripled in the ten years to 2013).
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While the artist is clearly preoccupied with the grid, what she did not swallow hook, line, and sinker was formalism's emphasis on the unitary, on dissolving differences in the name of essentiality or style.
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"We still see opportunities (for M&A)... but the downturn has been more rough for our competitors, which have been more preoccupied with managing price volatility instead of focusing on strategic decisions," he said.
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By the end of her visit, Barbie learns that it's possible to cultivate a safe space for our bodies when we're not so preoccupied with who is looking at them and what they're thinking.
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Three months after his election—and almost a month into his presidency—he is still preoccupied with anxiety over his legitimacy, spouting paranoid delusions in closed-door meetings with the nation's top elected officials.
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So even when we're preoccupied with a pimple the size of a small village, freaky dry flakes, or zombie-grade dark circles, we still have to plan ahead for long-term wear and tear.
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The movie's intellectual concerns certainly stand apart from blockbusters that appear overly preoccupied with blowing stuff up, but Ford's late entry into the story somewhat muddles answers to the questions that the movie raises.
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The U.S. is arriving late to a showdown that many officials in Russian defense circles saw coming a long time ago, when U.S. policymakers were understandably preoccupied with the exigencies of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency.
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" For a while, Ed had been preoccupied with the thought that he needed to attend to a house he had owned in Alabama, so she wrote, "No need to move or go to Huntsville.
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He has found a way to make a New York rap sound that's modern, not preoccupied with the formalist bullies of the 1990s (the L.O.X., DMX) that still define the city to so many.
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It is yet another way, they believe, to target the most politically vulnerable Democrats in conservative-leaning districts, by painting them as beholden to the party's left flank and preoccupied with removing the president.
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ALBANY — For those who have been preoccupied with other issues — the presidential campaign, the Zika virus, the "Bachelor" finale — here is a brief summary of New York State's major legislative accomplishments this year. Nada.
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Republican leaders, who were previously preoccupied with an Obamacare repeal effort and then a tax reform bill, have spent months asking the White House for more clarity on Trump's vision for a DACA deal.
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And though mom and dad occasionally get weirdly preoccupied with the occupations of the men I date, where they were born, and their parents' professions -- by and large – my parents are mostly hands off.
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Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R), a 2020 Senate candidate, says that Americans are too "preoccupied with homosexual activities" and "the wife swap shows," ruining everything from TV to the country's moral direction.
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She became preoccupied with the idea of writing a book about journeys, but conventional travel writing seemed too linear, lacking the "nervous, even aggressive, very active, very urgent" nature of the act of travelling.
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A political party that was once dedicated to democracy can, over time, become so preoccupied with holding power that it no longer cares enough about the substance of democracy to play by the rules.
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I should mention that while I'm somewhat preoccupied with the idea of one day having a hard body, I, like everyone else, have plenty of good reasons to perform cardiovascular exercise at higher intensities.
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Unfortunately, Fitzpatrick seems so concerned with the integrity of her setting, so preoccupied with finding for it the right shade of darkness, that she manipulates its inhabitants like plastic figures in an architectural model.
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If you are busy eating grapefruit-sized bowls of pills every five minutes so that you don't have to think about dying, you are clearly always preoccupied with moving that ball down the road.
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The French government says the Fiat deal fell apart because it was preoccupied with preserving Renault's alliance with Nissan, which the Finance Ministry said therefore meant it required explicit backing from its Japanese partner.
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There is none of this kind of meta-commentary in Ryan's novel, which is more preoccupied with what these men will never fully understand about their own lives, let alone the lives of others.
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Body dysmorphic disorder can lead to social isolation and depressionBody dysmorphia, or body dysmorphic disorder, is a mental health condition in which people are preoccupied with a specific body part&aposs perceived physical flaw.
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It was near the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month, when Saudis were preoccupied with religious duties and many royals had gathered in Mecca before traveling abroad for the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
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But Lloyd, who played Allen's movie son, Charlie, was preoccupied with the toys filling the massive Santa's workshop set in Toronto and the disappointing reality that brown paint was used for onscreen hot cocoa.
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As the debate rages about whether the GOP memo is inaccurate and misleading -- and whether it's appropriate to reveal such classified intelligence at all -- Trump appears to be more preoccupied with the political calculus.
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An affidavit filed with the arrest warrant quoted Naramore as telling officers he was preoccupied with a pending case at a time when he intended to leave his son at a day care center.
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It's a small irony that the demographic assumed to be furthest from happiness seems less clinically and personally preoccupied with reaching it, since the rest of the country's scheming to optimize happiness continues apace.
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Preoccupied with the power associated with fetishes and talismans, Wharton and Wood get at something affecting many of us — that we are overly attentive to various things in our lives, such as clothes and appearances.
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As Hashay delivered decks to dozens of investors, she made an interesting observation: While the investors liked her ideas, they seemed preoccupied with the prospect of her motherhood and how it might change her priorities.
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In 2008 the Fed was preoccupied with inflation, while subprime mortgage products built up excessive leverage in bank balance sheets, provoking systemic problems in markets that lead to the worst global recession since the 1930s.
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However, contrary to Trump, "Washington political circles and DPRK policy makers of the U.S. administration are hostile to the DPRK for no reason, preoccupied with the Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice." the statement said.
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It's possible that DeAngelo, who now faces a total of 12 counts of murder in Santa Barbara, Orange, Ventura, and Sacramento counties, became preoccupied with rape after his sister's sexual assault, Burgess told BuzzFeed News.
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Clinton, her campaign surrogates and her television commercials repeated these themes throughout Nevada, and her campaign aides portrayed Mr. Sanders as preoccupied with attacking the political system and Wall Street rather than helping real people.
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In the 21st century, Washington has focused most of its strategic attention on Islamist terrorism, the Middle East and Afghanistan, while Europe has been preoccupied with the euro and the growth of the European Union.
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And while yes, we're eager to find out if Tom Brady will pull yet another Super Bowl win, we're totally preoccupied with what this year's halftime show headliner, Justin Timberlake, has planned for this Sunday.
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While the US was preoccupied with low-tech and tough conflicts in the Middle East and nearby areas, Russia and China were busy figuring out how to offset US advantages in fancy aircraft and missiles.
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While Brie doesn't specify whether or not she or her sister were diagnosed with body dysmorphia disorder, people who suffer from body dysmorphia may become preoccupied with what they see as "flaws" in their body.
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His philosophy of "never retreat" prevented him from changing course; in China, nationalist pressure insisted that President Xi stand up to the Americans; while the EU was too preoccupied with Brexit to make a difference.
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Though VW's trucks division is preoccupied with aligning its MAN and Scania brands more closely to boost cost savings, overseas expansion remains on the agenda despite the rising costs of the group's "dieselgate" emissions scandal.
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But whereas the Republican National Convention was preoccupied with a certain notion of what the working class should be, the Democratic National Convention has made an obvious bid for the affections of actually existing workers.
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Critics frequently charge that the Times is preoccupied with giving a voice to Trump supporters or even just saying something nice about the president, and the paper has openly struggled with how to cover racists.
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But his belief that today's art "is no longer preoccupied with form" is one that would hardly be accepted by most artists or anyone else who is involved in contemporary art on a daily basis.
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Tesla is also trying to get away with avoiding a redesign of its aging flagship Model S and Model X vehicles — understandable given that it's preoccupied with launching a crossover variant of its Model 3.
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Which perhaps it is, because "Mind of Mine" is also, quietly, the product of someone fluent in pop mechanics; it is preoccupied with structure, perhaps the last residue left of his years making mercenary pop.
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Aides have said the President remains preoccupied with the broader Russia investigation, and has vented in private about Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for allowing Robert Mueller's probe to proceed.
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And finally — and this is the really ironic kicker — if you are preoccupied with how you thought things were going to turn out, you miss opportunities to make them turn out that way, or better.
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Three Percenters are preoccupied with survival and preservation, dealing with the evils they see in the here and now and operating on faith that once it is vanquished, commonsense and self-evident good will triumph.
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He is routinely preoccupied with perceived slights, for example raging to aides after Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, in his re-election announcement, said he would stand up to the next president regardless of party.
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In a market preoccupied with the implications of 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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She also wrote numerous book reviews, short stories and essays, including one for The Atlantic in 1959, titled "Sex and the College Girl," which challenged the idea that women are preoccupied with catching a man.
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If the demonstrators in '19683 were preoccupied with the rights of minorities — ethnic, religious and sexual (one slogan was "We all are minorities") — the nativist revolution of today is about the rights of the majorities.
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In 2010 Republican lawmakers became preoccupied with a set of standards, contained in a law known as the Energy Independence and Security Act, aimed at boosting the energy efficiency of American household bulbs by 25%.
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Along with the loving portraiture are elements of peculiar mystery; various members of the family are preoccupied with the loss of some human remains that Julita, who's a bit of a hoarder, has spoken of.
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Every contemporary N.B.A. star, with the obvious exception of Tim Duncan, works on his brand, but Anthony often seemed preoccupied with it when he might have been more focused on his game, or his team.
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She said she had made five sales, including the 2017 painting "Yellow Siller," by Uwe Henneken — a Berlin-based artist much preoccupied with shamanism, who was also on show at the Sammlung Boros private museum.
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Too many Republicans, including former President George W. Bush, were RINOs, or Republicans in Name Only, they said; and too many Democrats were preoccupied with social and gender issues that held no interest for them.
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What's more, she also says that nearly quitting acting actually improved her acting by allowing her to focus on bringing something unique to her performances in auditions, rather than being preoccupied with landing a role.
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He is interested not in how deeply they are affected by these events, but how slightly: how they will go on with their lives, preoccupied with their own burdens, which no one will ever see.
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Intuitively, we can fill in the dialogue as an unidentified maiden aunt receives a bottle of lotion, or a young boy, preoccupied with the business of the playground, instructs the cameraperson to leave him alone.
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Still a little preoccupied with that, but I'm sorry to say that I actually don't think, if I had to do a kind of coda to that, I would say that I was wrong, readers.
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I think the reason I am so preoccupied with the artist label is that if I let it go, I fear I will be nothing, but maybe that's the first step to making peace with it?
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She remains preoccupied with the state of her soul throughout the movie, which relies on visual cues to clue us into the passage of time, rather than marking time with dates (aside from the Civil War).
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In some recent stories, Facebook's second-in-command has been portrayed as preoccupied with her own legacy, and as an executive who surrounded herself with loyalists and sometimes prioritized her own brand above the company's interests.
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I told Patchett I thought it would be an extraordinary political statement, to acknowledge a writer whose people predate this very country at a time when this country is preoccupied with defining precisely who belongs here.
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In Britain the 2000% who voted Remain are more preoccupied with the stupidity of the masses than they are about the over-reach of the European elite that made "take back control" such a potent slogan.
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Until that future, Mercury quake-hunting mission arrives, Watters remains preoccupied with another mystery: how in the heck this tiny world has managed to hold enough core heat to stay geologically active for 4.5 billion years.
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When one of my hands is preoccupied with an overhead subway strap or carrying bags of groceries, I can confidently use the X in the other, without feeling like I'm precariously holding a fragile, giant gadget.
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With lawmakers soon to be preoccupied with legislation to raise the country's debt ceiling and keep the government funded beyond September, it is unclear how quickly the tax changes will be put on the legislative agenda.
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The party and its divisive leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, are preoccupied with the country's allegedly botched transition after 1989, which they contend left the communist-era elite manipulating the reins of power, just in a different guise.
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The new committee opinion says doctors should screen patients for body dysmorphic disorder, a psychiatric disorder that can be debilitating and involves being obsessed or preoccupied with a physical defect that is being imagined or exaggerated.
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But Mr. Rosenstein's offer to quit came while the White House and the president were preoccupied with the fight to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, and the White House delayed the discussion.
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The group has continued to hold Raqqa because of how deeply entrenched in the city it is, and because the anti-ISIS coalition has been preoccupied with the push to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul.
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All but indistinguishable from one another, the characters are relentlessly preoccupied with making correct change, reciting the names of various professions for no apparent reason, and telling each other what day of the week it is.
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Part of the disparity between the two series is that "Stranger Things" sees the world through the eyes of kids -- or more accurately, sees the past through people who were then more preoccupied with childish pursuits.
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I'm afraid I have zero faith in our current president's ability to cultivate the kind of open-mindedness that reading even one good book requires; he is far too preoccupied with gazing at his own reflection.
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Although Kirsten took a mild prurient interest in Lucy's disclosure, she was mostly preoccupied with the hotness of a counsellor named Sean, who was very tall and could play "Welcome to the Jungle" on the guitar.
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But Dr. Romeis and his collaborators do seem preoccupied with Dr. Hilbeck's work, judging from a review of email traffic between Agroscope and the U.S.D.A. obtained by The Times after a Freedom of Information Act request.
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"If people are preoccupied with issues such as security, then they'd better take a closer look at what's going to happen if a significant share of those 500 million smallholder farmers loses their livelihoods," he warned.
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U.S. regulators, preoccupied with modifying the decade-old, hastily put together Dodd-Frank regulatory regime, have let their guard down, potentially leaving the European Union's (EU's) fast-tracked regulatory regime to dominate U.S. financial institutions behavior.
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Passions were inflamed as the so-called "Freedom Summer" of registering blacks to vote had become preoccupied with what became known as the "Mississippi Burning" murders of the three — James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman.
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But it is by no means clear that this posture of being above the fray, preoccupied with great moral questions rather than white papers and political litmus tests, is sustainable in a very crowded Democratic race.
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I think that a lot of people play the kabuki theater, the charade, of a startup, but if you're just so preoccupied with your own happiness there's a general malaise that you bring into the office.
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Trump decided to make it about the Russian probe rather than the tragedy, by suggesting the FBI would have nabbed Cruz if it hadn't been preoccupied with trying to prove his campaign colluded with the Russians.
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Several businessmen say Modi's government needs to take swift action on the economy, but instead it seems preoccupied with the situation in Kashmir, which is under a lockdown after authorities curtailed the autonomy of the restive region.
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And just like that, my expected lifespan was cut down from eternity to maybe, at best, a brief 70- or 80-odd years; like that, I became preoccupied with the impossible project of trying not to die.
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McDonald, 50, has opened the party up to address the concerns of a new generation that is more preoccupied with the soaring cost of housing than with Sinn Fein's ultimate aim of unifying Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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O. J. Simpson, took great pains to investigate the lives of the lawyers behind the "Trial Of the (20th) Century," Versace isn't nearly as preoccupied with the lives of the people who make up the justice system.
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Executives and traders seem to be betting that the EU, preoccupied with Brexit, will want to avoid any extra disruption on stock exchanges and will extend equivalence for a fixed term, perhaps six months to a year.
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Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan tried to talk Trump out of the budget deal but didn't throw as much weight into the effort as they could have because they were preoccupied with preparing for Mueller's congressional testimony.
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Interest income, the bank's most important income line, has been under pressure over the past year due to fierce competition in mortgages and household loans across the region, while Nordea has been preoccupied with bringing down spending.
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In the build-up to a sweeping reshuffle of the leadership expected this autumn, he is preoccupied with political struggles at home: a shooting match with India that risked escalating into war would be a dangerous distraction.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Credit rating agencies are preoccupied with trying to drive Turkey into a corner and financial markets should not take them seriously, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, a day after Moody's downgraded Turkey's sovereign rating.
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"I'm preoccupied with this question of when an individual becomes either a pebble in the stream of history or one who drives the turns of history," the 67-year-old Romanian-born, Israeli-raised director told me.
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Indeed, she's preoccupied with it, but largely as an aesthetic problem; it's not until an author's note at the end of the book that she explicitly connects that ideology to deeper problems with our understanding of suffering.
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A classmate, Tony Anella, from Albuquerque, was preoccupied with his home-town river, the Rio Grande, and had determined that no one in documented history had navigated the river's nearly two thousand miles, from source to sea.
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It's almost inevitable that observant creators of any race in a similar industry will find themselves preoccupied with the same type of story as they seek to find the next necessary conversation our society is moving toward.
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Obama, a Democrat, has been preoccupied with the Syrian conflict during much of his time in the White House but has steadfastly resisted calls to engage militarily and instead focused on trying to broker a diplomatic solution.
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It's not new to suggest that Mansfield Park is subtextually preoccupied with slavery: Edward Said, whom Kelly does not explicitly cite but in response to whom she appears to be writing, famously and convincingly argued as much.
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Mr. Feingold said an incoming Democratic president would need to move immediately to begin filling judicial vacancies, noting that Mr. Obama's administration, preoccupied with other matters, was slow to do so at the start of his presidency.
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Ms. Paulus rejected claims, made by students as well as Mr. Brustein, the founder, that she was preoccupied with directing for Broadway, and pointed to the A.R.T.'s many productions that do not transfer to New York.
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To the delight of us who want a drama-free Final Four this weekend in San Antonio, Donald Trump is preoccupied with other stuff, ranging from the firing of folks to the wrath of a porn star.
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Modeled on Germany's own Bundesbank and preoccupied with containing inflation, the ECB was slower than its peers in Britain and the United States in resorting to massive bond purchases in response to the financial crisis of 2008.
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Just five months ago, he adds, Wall Street was preoccupied with rising tensions in North Korea, diminishing chances Congress could pull off tax reform, and a string of hurricanes that battered Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Puerto Rico.
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Trump was also preoccupied with other peoples' scandals, specifically those of two members of his administration, Environmental Protection Agency Chief Scott Pruitt and Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, who are both under scrutiny over extravagant travel arrangements.
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These issues seem a world away from the rich slopes of Davos, particularly this year when many political and business leaders are preoccupied with the inauguration of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump on Friday and fractures in Europe.
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