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"preoccupy" Definitions
  1. preoccupy somebody if something is preoccupying you, you think or worry about it very often or all the time

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Issues of race occupied, but did not preoccupy, Mr. Conyers.
This new investigation doesn't preoccupy Takakura, it almost devours him.
I try to count them just to preoccupy myself with something.
However, the piles of recycled VCR tapes on the table preoccupy her.
A very capitalist question, in the end, to preoccupy the remaining comrades.
But it was the theater that continued to preoccupy and disappoint him.
Now that Mr Kushner is in the White House, two questions preoccupy observers.
He allows petty slights to preoccupy his mind, his team and decision-making.
Greatness, of course, is not something that will preoccupy the Knicks this season.
I think they're trying to not preoccupy me too much or throw me off.
They preoccupy his work to a degree that is difficult for him to explain.
The same ideas continually preoccupy her, and her characters often behave in similar ways.
And it should also preoccupy all those who prefer to live in an open society.
It is their fate, not those of us and our politicians, that should preoccupy us.
"For a long time, the desire for a child didn't preoccupy me," Kruger told the outlet.
If we preoccupy these people for a minute longer than we have to, we'll lose them.
She regularly gains a bit of weight each season, but doesn't preoccupy herself with it, she said.
The sartorial obsessions that continue to preoccupy French culture were well­ established by the late 18th century.
The drop-offs have also included a box of Star Wars Legos to help preoccupy the kids.
Economic concerns are what preoccupy Mei Qingyuan, a recent college graduate in the eastern city of Hangzhou.
We also need to be more careful about what it is that might preoccupy our utopian imagination.
But he has also demonstrated concern for the court's institutional reputation that does not similarly preoccupy fellow conservatives.
Concern about algorithmic impacts on democratic processes continues to preoccupy politicians and regulators in the US and beyond.
But his popularity could take a hit if the scandal continues to preoccupy the media, some political analysts said.
That would change if Democrats win the House and start issuing subpoenas that could preoccupy the White House for months.
It was this "general overstock of all the markets of the universe" that came to preoccupy Say and his critics.
Where so many similar messages come off unthinking, you never doubt that these preoccupy Skereikis as deeply as his music.
The wounds of race — still open, still weeping over the course of 400 years — preoccupy our literature for a time.
When asked to explain which centrist ideas can solve the problems that really preoccupy Americans, Schultz had next to nothing.
While the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to preoccupy our nation's attention, the war on terror is migrating southward right underneath our noses.
One of his earliest works, the 284 gouache "Memoirs," served as a marker for the themes that would preoccupy him in the coming years.
Equity market volatility returned viciously in February and rising interest rates and inflation continue to preoccupy investors who are already spooked by late cycle dynamics.
The political causes that continue to move me do not preoccupy him, nor have I turned my priorities to design, the focus of his driving talent.
But until then, the interventions that preoccupy Harari's fantasies will be dominated by few, highly penetrant genes that influence fates and futures in an autonomous manner.
That fight will preoccupy the United Nations General Assembly this week, as world leaders debate whether punitive international drug laws should be eased to reflect the times.
Analysts had predicted the stock market rally would be short-lived, as realities about the slowing global economy, trade disputes and tricky local issues return to preoccupy investors.
But it's not the individual instances we should preoccupy ourselves with, it's the industry that empowers these people to speak for and to us in the first place.
And issues of school prayer, same-sex marriage and religious displays in courthouses and assemblies — let alone Christmas crèches in public buildings — still preoccupy politicians and the courts.
"Japan is hoping the USMCA and China will continue to preoccupy USTR [the U.S. trade representative] and the White House," said a source close to the Japanese negotiating team.
Climate change is one of the things I preoccupy myself with outside of stuffing my face, and meat is sort of the worst thing from a climate change perspective.
Furthermore, Trump's sharp changes to US foreign policy have opened wide gaps with Europe on climate change, Iran, trade and Britain's exit from the European Union that preoccupy other leaders.
He's constantly moving, screening, cutting, back-tapping his teammates' misses, and hoping the defense momentarily forgets he has dunk-contest-caliber hops as they preoccupy themselves with Lillard and McCollum.
The politics of the currency bloc have started to preoccupy investors again, given concerns about the ability of Greece to pay its debt and the possibility of snap elections in Italy.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - After hitting a three-year high against the dollar, the strong euro is likely to preoccupy global markets and European Central Bank policymakers in particular in the coming week.
And for a day at least, the Democrats were distracted from their plans to pass a positive agenda on issues like health care, education and climate change that preoccupy their voters.
On June 23, Britain will vote in a referendum to determine whether it will leave the European Union, and the potential outcome seemed to preoccupy Germans almost as much as Britons.
At this point, they are the only link to this early culture that dreamed up fantastic beings and visualized the thrill of the chase — two activities that still preoccupy humans today.
" Mr. Stibbe said, "The sin that seemed to preoccupy him more than anything was masturbation, and he managed to persuade me that I needed to purge my body of that sin.
Is it important still now to remember those two victims in this case, with all of the other sideshow distractions that come of it, and still preoccupy us to this very day?
How to structure a crisis-communication apparatus to contain the Russia response, so it doesn't preoccupy the entire West Wing, and how it'll interact with legal and P.R. operations on the outside.
A few months after the book, after going on tour and hearing feedback from readers—among them tech folks and executives—I wonder which concepts or models preoccupy you the most now.
"What we have seen in the past with mergers is that they preoccupy the banks for many years," said Tobias Berg, associate professor for finance at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
The election of a new successor will preoccupy the main governing party at a time when stronger German leadership is needed to confront critical challenges in Europe, across the Atlantic, and in global politics.
Once demeaned as people who fix potholes and make sure the trash is emptied, mayors now confront issues that also preoccupy presidents: climate change, health and education policy, terrorism, gun violence and even immigration.
Smith has preserved her uncannily precise eye for the subtle distinctions of class and race that preoccupy her characters, and for the way those distinctions shift across communities; that skill is on full display here.
Asked shortly after the premiere of "Blue Planet II" if looming regulations preoccupy plastics companies, a senior European lobbyist for the industry confessed to Schumpeter that they were not really a topic of conversation in boardrooms.
A familiar ballet ensues: the victim's history of drug infractions preoccupy the media, an aggrieved community marches in protest and a grand jury declines to indict the officer, which leads to more and more fervent agitation.
And Urquiola's "Gender" chair (Cassina, 2016) embodies a refreshingly open-minded attitude to a topic that might well preoccupy her, as one of few women to have achieved prominence within the deeply sexist world of design.
"Given the underlying trends and the need to deal with legacy systems and processes that will preoccupy bank management for the next several years, this type of charge has a run-rate feel to it," he said.
This starts to sound confusing, the listing of several names and all the "thinking about" thrown in there like glue, but this is what we preoccupy our minds with more than any other conscious-level sort of thinking.
In the immediate aftermath, whether this is the prelude to deeper U.S. involvement in Syria will preoccupy oil traders, as will the response of Iran and Russia — major oil producers and staunch allies of Syria's President Bashar Assad.
There is a growing expectation that, in order to make good on their prominence, these artists must take on the issues that preoccupy us: racial and political strife, shifting notions of sexual identity, the inexorable march of technology.
Though formal innovation tends to preoccupy avant-garde writers and to guarantee a small readership, Carrère's books — 14 across 36 years, with translations into more than 30 languages — have been best sellers, as popular as they are praised.
"The trade theme will preoccupy the markets through the 0.13-day truce period between the United States and China, waiting for any signs of concession between the parties," said Soichiro Monji, senior economist at Daiwa SB Investments in Tokyo.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and his allies are bracing for open hearings that will preoccupy Washington and bring to life the vivid picture of presidential behavior that until now has been confined to written statements and private testimony.
Liberal Catholics—probably including many of the congregation in Bethesda—tend to be more concerned with social justice than the stringent teachings on personal morality, including the wickedness of abortion and evil of gay marriage, that preoccupy America's leading Catholic clergy.
Should we ever manage to overcome the dominant modes of inequality and exploitation that have long distorted basic living conditions under American capitalism, democratic conundrums more rewarding and thorny than the ones that currently preoccupy us will open up in droves.
The vanishing pleasures of Polaroids and video stores; the smarting efficiency of hot-wax defuzzing over newfangled laser treatments; the carefree thrill of freeloading over regular rent payments — these are what preoccupy the quirky slackers who knock about its Austin, Tex.
Trump's occasional and ever more perplexing interventions in the British media have also seen him embark on a war of words with former SNP leader Alex Salmond, which I'd guess isn't the sort of activity that POTUS hopefuls typically preoccupy themselves with.
The discussions that occur in the governmental meetings of Monrovia, in the restaurants and the high school and the local Freemasons' Lodge, are of course far more specific and circumstantial than a mere reflection of the issues that preoccupy the entire country.
Now in their 40s, Miike Snow's concerns lay less in the band's trajectory and the visions of grandeur and stardom that may preoccupy their younger ilk, and more in appreciating presence of disappearing into a standalone project greater than the sum of its parts.
Speed is important because a failure to decide whether the full House will vote on Articles of Impeachment within months could overshadow Democratic primaries when the party's candidates hope to be talking about health care and economic inequality -- issues that preoccupy voters -- rather than Trump.
The economy is likely to preoccupy Khan's first few months in office, with his administration facing a battle to reduce a ballooning current account gap and a high fiscal deficit, which shot up to 6.8 percent of GDP in the 12 months to end of June.
The digital content industry debunked the copypasta, celebrities posted sheepish apologies (or didn't), and we all resumed waiting for the next dumb thing to come along and briefly preoccupy us between stories about the burning rainforest in the Amazon and the president's effort to buy Greenland (?).
In a concluding riff, he spoke movingly of the tragedies he has suffered—the loss of a wife and child in a car accident; the loss of a son to brain cancer—and asked his audience to reflect on the everyday sadnesses that preoccupy ordinary Americans.
The fate of the Windrush generation has resonated so loudly because it touches on many issues that preoccupy Britain at the moment: its imperial history, its relations with the rest of the world after Brexit, its attitude to immigration and ultimately, what it means to be British.
The Brexit also will preoccupy EU officials in coming months as they launch their own negotiations with London over the future terms of UK-EU trade, and sort out their post-Brexit priorities, said Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, director of the European Centre for International Political Economy, a Brussels-based think tank.
"They're going to be focused on rooting out coup plotters, and that's going to preoccupy all the national security services; and everything else, including going after ISIL, will be secondary," said Eric S. Edelman, a former United States ambassador to Turkey and top Pentagon official under President George W. Bush.
Putting aside all the headlines and commotion, it's important to remember that the issues that preoccupy the minds of Americans — whether it's the rise of violent extremism, the scourge of opioids, or the attacks on basic human rights and freedoms — will all require help from our friends around the world.
And as Trump prepares to embark on a series of foreign trips -- Japan this weekend, the UK and France the next and then the G20 summit later next month -- his advisers, who once once held out hope that foreign trips could distract or preoccupy him from his grudges, have long abandoned those notions.
In the chastened pages of Identity, Fukuyama himself concedes as much: "Democracies require certain positive virtues on the part of citizens...," he writes: Alexis de Tocqueville in particular warned of the temptation of people in democratic societies to turn inward and preoccupy themselves with their own welfare and that of their families exclusively.
But our cultural and personal bandwidths for thinking and talking about sexual health issues are limited, and, as Leone pointed out, over the last three decades, we've found many more pressing and potentially deadly issues to preoccupy us, including HIV/AIDS, the resurgence of STIs like syphilis, and the emergence of multi-drug resistant strains of gonorrhea.
I know my head was filled with the thoughts that tend to preoccupy me each year on the anniversary of my birth: the mystery of time, the habits of a self, how the face in the mirror has changed, the meaning of our lives with others, how beautiful it all is and how soon it will all be gone.
But one official said it did preoccupy Mr. Trump's top advisers, noting that it was a big topic of conversation over the weekend at the president's golf club in Bedminster, N.J. The fact that the secretary of state and the ambassador to the United Nations had to deny taking part in a plot to remove the president, in a week when they are meeting with dozens of foreign officials, illustrated the unique challenges of serving this president.
She expostulated earnestly with him on the folly of allowing money cares and ambitions to preoccupy him.
Success is Amis's first statement of the doppelganger theme that would also preoccupy the novels Money, London Fields, and, especially, 1995's The Information.
He estimated that a further £8,000 would be required to publish the scientific findings. The problems of meeting these financial obligations would preoccupy Mawson for many years.
Hepburn quickly returned to acting after Tracy's death, choosing to preoccupy herself as a remedy against grief.Berg (2004) p. 255. She received numerous scriptsKanin (1971) p. 259. and chose to play Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968), a part she called "fascinating".Hepburn (1991) p. 255.
Intellectually, liberalism was what seemed to preoccupy Caruana most. Amongst his various works, one is noteworthy for its philosophical value. It is Dell’Influsso della Filosofia Moderna (On the Influence of Modern Philosophy). This 28-page booklet in Italian was published in Malta in 1889 (Tipografia Industriale di Giov.
Anthony Tann's death from fever was the first in a series of misfortunes to strike Busro in its early years and cripple it from its birth. These misfortunes would eventually preoccupy Samuel Swan McClelland's diary, which from 1811 until its last entries in 1827, quickly became a disaster narrative.
The event is the largest and oldest congress in Europe, covering cancer diagnostics and therapy in Germany. The Congress program focuses on the three substantial challenges that currently preoccupy cancer medicine: enhancing interdisciplinarity, rapid integration and financing of innovations, and increasing individualization of therapy decisions after molecular-genetic diagnostics.
White House Diary is a book written by President Jimmy Carter, published in 2010. It is the personally-annotated diary of Carter's presidency, and contains feedback on his relationships with allies and enemies, as well as commentary on his observed impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world today.
Kim has published 13 books regarding various issues in the Korean Peninsula. These include the Korean Communism Report (대한민국 적화보고서), published in 2006, Preoccupy North Korea, published in 2010 (북한을 선점하라), History Making, published in 2013, and Kim Jong- un Will Perish Like This, published in 2014 (김정은 이렇게 망한다).
Maxine Kumin commended the book with these words: "Elizabeth Bartlett enumerates the eternal questions that preoccupy us 'while we try to sleep / on the rough floor of our hearts.' In the strictest of forms [i.e., the twelve-tone form], she examines the human condition; the poetry is pitiless, yet redemptive."Commendation from book cover: Bartlett, Elizabeth.
The guiding principles are: # War is obsolete # We are one on this planet # The means are the ends in the making. The core practices are: # I will resolve conflict. I will not use violence # I will maintain an attitude of good will. I will not preoccupy myself with an enemy # I will work together with others to build a world beyond war.
Caracalla's choice of contacting Vologases instead of Artabanus shows that the Romans still saw him as the dominant king. Caracalla thus chose to preoccupy himself with an invasion of Armenia. He appointed a freedman named Theocritus as the leader of the invasion, which eventually ended in a disaster. Caracalla then once again sought to start a war with the Parthians.
Caracalla's choice of contacting Vologases instead of Artabanus shows that the Romans still saw him as the dominant king. Caracalla thus chose to preoccupy himself with an invasion of Armenia. He appointed a freedman named Theocritus as the leader of the invasion, which eventually ended in a disaster. Caracalla then once again sought to start a war with the Parthians.
Heliade's most influential contributions are related to his interest in developing the modern Romanian language, in which he synthesized Enlightenment tenets and Romantic nationalist ideals of the 1848 generation.Măciucă, p.XV At a time when Romanian was being discarded by the educated in favor of French or Greek, he and his supporters argued in favor of adapting Romanian to the requirements of modernization; he wrote: "Young people, preoccupy yourselves with the national language, speak and write in it; prepare yourselves for its study, for its cultivation,—and cultivating a language means to write in it about all sciences and arts, about all eras and peoples. The language alone unites, strengthens and defines a nation; preoccupy yourselves with it first and foremost, as, through this, you shall be carrying out the most fundamental of policies, you shall be laying the foundation of nationality".
Manor, p.259, 261 An exception to this self-imposed rule was the motif of "wounded soldiers", which continued to preoccupy him after 1948, and was also thematically linked to the wartime massacres.Manor, p.275 During and after his Ofakim Hadashim engagement, Marcel Janco again moved into the realm of pure abstraction, which he believed represented the artistic "language" of a new age.Manor, p.
Dillon states that Fenton was ordered to return to Northern Ireland by his handlers in Special Branch, and say he had gone to England to see a boxing match. According to the IRA, Special Branch knew Fenton faced execution if he returned and that he was deliberately sacrificed to preoccupy the IRA and divert suspicion from another informer operating within the IRA's Belfast Brigade.
He served his mother with great filial piety, and did not preoccupy himself with feasting. He particularly disliked women, and even when they were several steps away from him, he would state that he could smell them. Any clothes he wore while having sexual contact with women would be discarded thereafter. After having sexual intercourse with a consort, he would have to take a day to recuperate.
The EMG recordings allows one to monitor and ideally reduce subvocalization. In concurrent speaking tasks, participants of a study are asked to complete an activity specific to the experiment while simultaneously repeating an irrelevant word. For example, one may be asked to read a paragraph while reciting the word "cola" over and over again. Speaking the repeated irrelevant word is thought to preoccupy the articulators used in subvocalization.
"The best defense is a good offense" is an adage that has been applied to many fields of endeavor, including games and military combat. It is also known as the strategic offensive principle of war. Generally, the idea is that proactivity (a strong offensive action) instead of a passive attitude will preoccupy the opposition and ultimately hinder its ability to mount an opposing counterattack, leading to a strategic advantage.
But according to Apollinaire, "geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer". Artists, just as scientists, no longer had to limit themselves to three spatial dimensions. They were guided by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which included the 'fourth dimension'. This fictitious realm represented the "immensity of space eternalizing itself in all directions at any given moment".
Due to this war, Severus allowed Clodius Albinus, whom he suspected of being a threat, to be co-Caesar so that Severus did not have to preoccupy himself with imperial governance. This move allowed him to concentrate on waging the war against Niger. Most historians count Severus and Albinus as two emperors, though they ruled simultaneously. The Severan dynasty was created out of the chaos of 193 AD.
Book Beta of the Metaphysics is a list of the aporiai that preoccupy the rest of the work. In Pyrrhonism aporia is intentionally induced as a means of producing ataraxia. Contemporary academic studies of the term further characterize its usage in philosophical discourses. In "Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency" (2009), Nicholas Rescher is concerned with the methods in which an aporia, or "apory", is intellectually processed and resolved.
Jones, "Political tradition", 44–46; Sapiro, 216. The Rights of Men was Wollstonecraft's first overtly political work, as well as her first feminist work; as Johnson contends, "it seems that in the act of writing the later portions of Rights of Men she discovered the subject that would preoccupy her for the rest of her career."Johnson, 29. It was this text that made her a well-known writer.
These are usually instances in which the manic person is excessively distracted by objectively unimportant stimuli.Lakshmi N. Ytham, Vivek Kusumakar, Stanley P. Kutchar. (2002). Bipolar Disorder: A Clinician's Guide to Biological Treatments, page 3. This experience creates an absent-mindedness where the manic individual's thoughts totally preoccupy him or her, making him or her unable to keep track of time, or be aware of anything besides the flow of thoughts.
His 1920 Bampton Lectures showed the theme of ecumenism that would preoccupy him. At the time of the 1926 General Strike, he opposed the intervention of some of the other bishops. He was influential in the Church of England's council on foreign relations in the 1930s, chairing the Committee on Relations with Episcopal Churches. He supported the Protestant Reich Church in Germany, and was a critic of the Confessing Church.
Figlia hires a streetwalker, Rica (Valentina Cortese), to seduce and preoccupy Nick in her room while his men unload the apples without Nick's permission. Figlia later pays Nick for his fruit, but that night his goons waylay and rob Nick of the cash. Meanwhile, Kinney is killed when his own truck mechanically fails, veers off the road, and burns after speeding out of control down a long hill. Foul play is suspected.
Meanwhile, an audacious gang is robbing payrolls. The mental patient is soon arrested, but not before he has killed the daughter of his former landlady. Gideon wants to congratulate personally the policeman who made the arrest, only to discover it is the same young officer who gave him a summons for his early morning traffic offence. Various jobs then preoccupy the chief inspector while his detectives continue to investigate the bribery case.
Nancy Reynolds and Malcolm McCormick, No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, 409. With the emergence of his first dance Proxy (1961) activities in this piece such as walking, sitting, and eating would preoccupy Paxton’s approach to movement for some time. Paxton was known for eliminating any outside influences that would prevent the piece from just being accepted how it was.Nancy Reynolds and Malcolm McCormick, No Fixed Points,408.
Written by Lawrence Gozum in 1987, it was the genesis of multiple versions and improvements over 10 years. Ran with his brother, Marvin initially helped with design ideas, strategic focus, technical support calls, and managing the early shareware business. The growth of the VGACAD suite grew quickly to preoccupy most of their time. Lawrence then focused more of his efforts on software and formed Applied Insights, to manage VGACAD and its offspring, VidFun, and Ai Picture Explorer.
Ludendorff greatly underestimated this new weapon, to such an extent that he allowed tank production in Germany to be throttled. Thaer was one of the first senior German officers to appreciate the potential danger that enemy tanks represented. As early as 30 January 1917 he notes, "This question of the tanks continues to preoccupy me ... They are probably underestimated by the [German] high command". The British tanks returned during the first part of 1917, this time as part of the Battle of Arras.
During Dickinson’s later years, she lived a life of Calvinist devotion. In September 1787, she came to the conclusion that wanting a family was what condemned her to a life of solitude. The time she used thinking about it took away from her time with God. In May 1789, she wrote in her diary that because there were no children, grandchildren, or household for her to preoccupy her time with, her “spirit [would] hold communion with God at all times”.
Peter Camenzind, published in 1904, was the first novel by Hermann Hesse. It contains a number of themes that were to preoccupy the author in many of his later works, most notably the individual's search for a unique spiritual and physical identity amidst the backdrops of nature and modern civilization, and the role of art in the formation of personal identity. The style of Peter Camenzind is easy to follow, even as it is a Bildungsroman in an atypical sense.
The newly assembled coalition, wishing to exploit the Ottoman setback in Sidon, decided to send the Russian squadron to the small port town of Beirut, which was controlled at the time by the Druze. According to the researcher William Persen, the aim of this expedition was to both preoccupy the Druze and punish them for siding with the Porte. Blockading their port would achieve this. Beirut was also the only port in the region which had so far remained under Ottoman rule.
"I'll get them!" Carrie shouts and uses her mind to slam them shut. Horrified by this display of power that she's certain is the work of the devil, Margaret cowers in fear as Carrie calmly finishes her dessert. Act II Preparations for Prom and the news that Tommy's taking Carrie preoccupy everyone at school, including Chris and Billy, who sneak into the gymnasium with a bucket of pig's blood and set their own nasty prank in place ("A Night We'll Never Forget").
He actively sought out this freedom and felt it crucial to his progression as an artist. To him, lifestyle and art were intertwined; he said that "perhaps the drink helped me to be a bit freer." This is very evident in the 1949 series, which began as a rather morbid study of a collapsed head, but evolved over the six surviving panels into a reworking of Velázquez masterpieces, and arrived at an image that was to preoccupy Bacon for the subsequent 20 years. Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925).
The central themes that would preoccupy The Clichettes throughout their career – satire, appropriation, parody, feminist commentary, and pop-culture and media deconstruction – were clearly present during their formational period. As a feminist performance group, The Clichettes' practice resisted the conventions of girlhood and dance through satirical, humorous performances. They contested gender stereotypes through the use of pop culture cliches and brash humour. The Clichettes made their debut at the Tele-Performance Festival in 1978, an event themed in response to television as content and technology.
The French delegate Edouard Vaillant told the Second International's founding congress that "war, the most tragic product of present economic relations, can only disappear when capitalist production has made way for the emancipation of labor and the international triumph of socialism." Opposition to war became a pillar of its program,Nation 1989, p. 10. but the question of what to do if war broke out would preoccupy socialists throughout the International's history and was the most controversial question discussed among the International's leading figures.Blänsdorf 1979, p.
According to a 1982 government work, "The Democratic Front has played and still plays an important role in the struggle against bureaucracy... encourag[ing] the control of the masses over the state organs and the persons working there.... At their meetings, the organizations of the Democratic Front encourage the broad and free debating of problems which concern and preoccupy them. In particular, they stimulate open and unrestricted criticism by the masses of shortcomings and errors."Portrait of Albania. Tirana: 8 Nëntori Publishing House. 1982. p. 139.
Phillips-Matz, p. 287 But his relationship with his parents, albeit legally severed, as well as Strepponi's situation living with the composer in an unmarried state, continued to preoccupy him, as did the deterioration of his relationship with his father-in-law, Antonio Barezzi.Phillips-Matz, pp. 293–294 Finally, in April 1851, agreement was reached with the elder Verdis on the payment of debts mutually owed and the couple were given time to resettle, leaving Sant'Agata for Verdi and Strepponi to occupy for the next fifty years.
George Drumm died in 1866, leaving the family facing poverty. Mrs. Drumm opened a store, and the boys all delivered newspapers. When he was 14, William was apprenticed as a telegraph operator. He trained and worked at L'Abord-à- Plouffe, now in Laval, on the Lake of Two Mountains, "a Quebec lumber town where he had his first encounters with the habitants and voyageurs who were to inspire (and even to preoccupy) the poet." In 1875 (when he was 21, legally the head of the household), he changed the family name to Drummond.
This was to preoccupy him for the rest of his life. Gobineau loved to visit the ruins of the Achaemenid period as his mind was fundamentally backward looking, preferring to contemplate past glories rather than what he saw as a dismal present and even bleaker future. His time in Persia inspired two books: Mémoire sur l'état social de la Perse actuelle (1858) ("Memoire on the Social State of Today's Persia") and Trois ans en Asie (1859) ("Three Years in Asia"). Gobineau was less than complimentary about modern Persia.
Though Goya had to that point been preoccupied with commissioned portraits of royalty and noblemen, this work is one of a dozen small-scale, dark images he produced independently. Uncommissioned, it was one of the first of Goya's mid-1790s cabinet paintings, in which his earlier search for ideal beauty gave way to an examination of the relationship between naturalism and fantasy that would preoccupy him for the rest of his career.Schulz, Andrew. "The Expressive Body in Goya's Saint Francis Borgia at the Deathbed of an Impenitent". The Art Bulletin, 80.4 1998.
Chamberlain hoped that the understanding he had signed with Hitler at Munich would lead toward a general settlement of European disputes, but Hitler expressed no public interest in following up on the accord. Having considered a general election immediately following Munich, Chamberlain instead reshuffled his Cabinet. By the end of the year, public concerns caused Chamberlain to conclude that "to get rid of this uneasy and disgruntled House of Commons by a General Election" would be "suicidal". Despite Hitler's relative quietness as the "Reich" absorbed the Sudetenland, foreign policy concerns continued to preoccupy Chamberlain.
He was listed as "junior" in the parliamentary record to distinguish him from his uncle Robert of Stanwardine, near Baschurch. Shropshire's second MP was Edward Leighton (died 1593),P.W. Hasler (editor): The History of Parliament: Constituencies 1558-1603 - Shropshire (Author: P.W. Hasler), accessed August 2013 an older and more experienced man and a close colleague of Sir Andrew in the military organisation of the county and the Council in the Marches, and he was a member of the committee investigating the succession question, which continued to preoccupy parliament.
Two cases preoccupy Arthur during the course of the novel. The first concerns the probate of the estate of Michael McCarthy; the second is the arrest of Ralph Detweiler (brother of the firm's dedicated secretary Helen Detweiler) for rape. Arthur is also called on to deal with a new pastor in the Episcopal Church, who is asking him to take a role in the leadership of the parish. Arthur also meets with one of Marjorie's friends, a woman named Pratt who wants to discuss Marjorie's interest in converting to Catholicism.
Roberto Merlo, "Dal mediterraneo alla Tracia: spirito europeo e tradizione autoctona nella saggistica di Dan Botta" , in the Romanian Academy Philologica Jassyensia, Nr. 2/2006, p.56-57 Gabriel Petric, "Mioriţa şi actele de vorbire", in Familia, Nr. 11-12/2010, p.63, 67 These ideas were expanded upon in another 1930 volume, Literatură şi ştiinţă ("Literature and Science"). The topic of race continued to preoccupy him and, in 1937, produced the volume Les génératrices, les origines et la classification des races humaines ("The Generators, Origins and Classification of Human Races", published with Émile Nourry's company in Paris).
Later, Yahdun-Lim embarked on an expedition to the Mediterranean Sea that was used for ideological purposes, as it was meant to echo Gilgamesh's deeds; the journey likely had undeclared political motives as well, when seen in the context of the alliance with Qatna. The Mariote–Qaṭanean alliance, which was probably cemented by dynastic marriage, must have provoked Yamhad, which supported rebellions in Mari to preoccupy Yahdun-Lim with his own problems. Despite the tension and battles, a full- scale war with Yamhad was avoided. Qatna was at its apex during the reign of Išḫi-Addu.
Mihăileanu's dictionary Ștefan Mihăileanu was born in 1859, in Beala di Suprâ, Ottoman Empire. An ethnic Aromanian, he was one of the first students in Ottoman Macedonia to attend classes in the Aromanian language. Due to the political turmoil that preceded the Macedonian Struggle, Mihăileanu's uncle brought him to Romania where he continued his education in the Saint Sava National College. The Macedonian Struggle, a series of intertwined cultural, political and military conflicts between the various ethnic and religious communities residing in Macedonia was to preoccupy Mihăileanu until the end of his life. He combined his career as a teacher with publishing the Macedonia newspaper between 1888 and 1889.
Meanwhile, however, the personal relations of Alexander and Napoleon were of the most cordial character, and it was hoped that a fresh meeting might adjust all differences between them. The meeting took place at Erfurt in October 1808 and resulted in a treaty that defined the common policy of the two Emperors. But Alexander's relations with Napoleon nonetheless suffered a change. He realised that in Napoleon sentiment never got the better of reason, that as a matter of fact he had never intended his proposed "grand enterprise" seriously, and had only used it to preoccupy the mind of the Tsar while he consolidated his own power in Central Europe.
Sapiro, 25; 186–87. Most Wollstonecraft scholars now recognize it was this work that radicalized Wollstonecraft and directed her future writings, particularly A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. It is not until after the halfway point of Rights of Men that she begins the dissection of Burke's gendered aesthetic; as Claudia Johnson contends, "it seems that in the act of writing the later portions of Rights of Men she discovered the subject that would preoccupy her for the rest of her career." Two years later, when Wollstonecraft published the Rights of Woman, she extended many of the arguments she had begun in Rights of Men.
Harmon describes Rick as a self-interested anarchist, who doesn't like being told what to do. He believes that the character's life on a larger scale has caused him mental illness, and opines that "the knowledge that nothing matters—while accurate—gets you nowhere". Matthew Bulger of The Humanist notes that the creators of the series are trying to communicate the message that we need to focus on human relationships and not preoccupy our minds with unanswerable questions, in order to find a sense of purpose and live a better life. Eric Armstrong of The New Republic notes that Morty represents the audience, as he is "mostly there to react to Rick's deranged schemes".
Edward Tylor, an anthropologist who used the term magic in reference to sympathetic magic, an idea that he associated with his concept of animism The intellectualist approach to defining magic is associated with two prominent British anthropologists, Edward Tylor and James G. Frazer. This approach viewed magic as the theoretical opposite of science, and came to preoccupy much anthropological thought on the subject. This approach was situated within the evolutionary models which underpinned thinking in the social sciences during the early 19th century. The first social scientist to present magic as something that predated religion in an evolutionary development was Herbert Spencer; in his A System of Synthetic Philosophy, he used the term magic in reference to sympathetic magic.
The Brontës' Web of Childhood, by Fannie Ratchford, 1941An analysis of Emily's use of paracosm play as a response to the deaths of her sisters is found in Delmont C. Morrison's Memories of Loss and Dreams of Perfection (Baywood, 2005), . Initially, all four children shared in creating stories about a world called Angria. However, when Emily was 13, she and Anne withdrew from participation in the Angria story and began a new one about Gondal, a fictional island whose myths and legends were to preoccupy the two sisters throughout their lives. With the exception of their Gondal poems and Anne's lists of Gondal's characters and place-names, Emily and Anne's Gondal writings were largely not preserved.
Josephus is considered the primary holy man of the group, which is in contrast with the Lancelot-Grail's major source, Robert de Boron's Joseph d'Arimathie, in which his father is the undisputed leader. This is likely due to the authors' assertion that various great families are descended from Joseph; his virtuous son remains chaste and has no children. When Joseph's followers reach Britain Josephus becomes the island's spiritual leader while his brother Galahad (ancestor to the more famous knight Galahad) takes charge of the secular duties. Before he dies Josephus passes the Grail to his nephew Alan and announces the quest for the object that will eventually preoccupy King Arthur and his court.
Grusin's academic work is fundamentally interdisciplinary; his main interests include various aspects of media, environmental, cultural, and American studies. His scholarly concerns focus on the way that the very questions of representation and mediation that preoccupy us today have manifested themselves historically across western culture. He is the author of two books in American studies: Transcendentalist Hermeneutics: Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible (1991); and Culture, Technology, and Creation of America’s National Parks (2004). He is most known for his 1999 book, Remediation: Understanding New Media (co- authored with Jay David Bolter), which is nationally and internationally regarded as a founding text of the field of new media studies.
People with Asperger syndrome can display behavior, interests, and activities that are restricted and repetitive and are sometimes abnormally intense or focused. They may stick to inflexible routines, move in stereotyped and repetitive ways, preoccupy themselves with parts of objects, or engage in compulsive behaviors like lining objects up to form patterns. Pursuit of specific and narrow areas of interest is one of the most striking among possible features of AS. Individuals with AS may collect volumes of detailed information on a relatively narrow topic such as weather data or star names without necessarily having a genuine understanding of the broader topic. For example, a child might memorize camera model numbers while caring little about photography.
Station personnel were often located in rural locations and had to preoccupy themselves during their off time. Many joined sports teams, motorcycling clubs, stamp clubs or amateur radio associations. Civilians were welcomed at the base either as club participants or to the recreational facilities such as the swimming pool. Some of the buildings located on the property included the combined mess hall, officers quarters, NCO's quarters, OR's quarters, Supply, Administration & Recreation Building, chlorinator house, guard shack, heated garages and power plant. The AC&W; squadron remained in control of operations at Ramore until early 1962 when operation of the radar base was transferred from the Americans to the Canadian military under operation of the Number 35 Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron.
One of the major themes of Campana, which is present at the beginning of the "Orphic Songs" in the early prose parts - "The Night", "Journey and Return" - is the obscurity between dream and wakefulness. Adjectives and adverbs return with the repetitive insistence of a dreamer's speech: a dream, however, that is interrupted by startling shifts in tone (as in the poem "The Skylight"). In the second part - the nocturne of "Genoa", all the basic mythic figures and scenes that will preoccupy Campana return: port cities, barbaric mother figures, enormous prostitutes, windy plains, the captive teenager. Even in his prose poems, the use of repetition, superlatives, and keywords, as well as the effect of resonance in prepositions, create a strong scene.
Although the activity of Fidel Castro's guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra mountains came to preoccupy the forces of General Fulgencio Batista, and also formed the cornerstone of subsequent accounts of the Cuban revolution, campaigns by rebel groups in the major cities and towns of Cuba also played a key role in bringing an end to Batista's reign. It is in these cities and towns, in both open and underground organizations, that plans were debated and actions implemented. These organizations included labor unions, where the Communists were organizing "fighting committees", and university and high school groups, where the Directorio Revolucionario Estudantil and July 26 Movement had influence. Groups were also forming in the professional and business organizations of the middle and upper classes.
" Greg Daily, writing for InDaily, said "Looking For Grace is told from the slightly varied perspectives of different characters, and scenes are revisited from a range of viewpoints. Brooks has an eye for detail, an understanding of people and how the ordinary and mundane can preoccupy us even during significant occasions; the dialogue is occasionally Pinteresque and every scene is carefully arranged to be visually appealing." David Stratton writing for The Australian said "Looking for Grace - the title is double-edged - is an impeccably packaged Australian film. The photography, by Katie Milwright, of the West Australian landscape is superlative, from the eye-popping opening shots to the pristine images of the flat, open landscape, while the music score by Elizabeth Drake perfectly complements the narrative.
Goldsmith (widely known as Teddy) was born in Paris in 1928 to a German Jewish father, Frank Goldsmith, and French mother, Marcelle Mouiller. He entered Millfield School, Somerset, as a grammar student, and he later graduated with honours in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford (1947–1950). While studying at Oxford, Goldsmith rejected the reductionist and compartmentalised ideas taught at the time, and he sought a more holistic worldview with which to study societies and the problems facing the world at large. After fulfilling his National Service as a British Intelligence Officer in Hamburg and Berlin, he involved himself unsuccessfully in a number of business ventures and devoted most of his spare time to the study of the subjects that were to preoccupy him for the rest of his life.
Although This Is the Way the World Ends (Henry Holt, 1986) was marketed initially as a mainstream novel, the science-fiction community embraced it, giving Morrow his first Nebula Award nomination. The plot is driven by “the unadmitted,” a ghostly race of humans whose existences were foreclosed when their hypothetical ancestors extinguished themselves in a nuclear holocaust. Determined to use their earthly tenures wisely, the unadmitted put the surviving architects of Armageddon—including the novel’s everyman protagonist—on trial under the Nuremberg precedent. Only Begotten Daughter (William Morrow 1990) represented the author’s initial exploration of the subject that would preoccupy him during his mature writing years: the enigma of religious faith. The protagonist is Julie Katz, whose existential problems include the fact that she is Jesus Christ’s divine half-sister, reincarnated in contemporary Atlantic City.
The central themes that would preoccupy General Idea throughout their career – self-mythologization, spectacle, appropriation, parody, media deconstruction, an ironic interest in commerce and the semiotics of advertising language – were clearly present in the early days of the group. They shared an interest in the forms and methods of popular culture and mass media, and were influenced by the writing of Marshall McLuhan, William Burroughs, and by the Situationist International. The earliest activities of the group involved the use of their home: creating ersatz commercial shops, only visible to the general public through the street-facing window (a sign was always posted saying that the store would be open in 5 minutes), and creating installations and hosting exhibitions in their living room. They worked on an uncompleted film (God is my Gigolo, 1969) which starred the five cohabitants, and also included Honey Novick and Tina Miller.
In 1980, the Grand Imam of al- Azhar Gad al-Haq Ali Gad al-Haq issued a fatwa that "Listening to music, attending musical gatherings, and studying music of all genres and instruments is allowed as long as it is not accompanied with immoral and sinful acts, or used as a pretext to incite people towards haram (prohibited) behaviour, and it does not preoccupy a person away from observing the obligatory acts of worship (al-wajibat)". In June 2010, Shaikh Adil al-Kalbani, former imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah (Masjid al-Haram) issued a fatwa that "There is no clear-cut religious ruling that says singing and music are not permissible in Islam". In 2013, the grand mufti of Kashmir Bashir-ud-din Farooqi issued a fatwā terming singing as un-Islamic, forcing Kashmir's only all-girls rock band to abandon it.
The superstates of Nineteen Eighty- Four have been compared by literary scholars to other dystopian societies such as those created by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, Franz Kafka's The Trial Susser, D., 'Hermeneutic Privacy: On Identity, Agency, and Information', (Stony Brook University PhD, 2015), p.67 B. F. Skinner's Walden II,Leonard J. Eslick (1971) The Republic Revisited: The Dilemma of Liberty and Authority', World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, 10:3-4, 171-212, p.178 and Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange although Orwell's bleak 1940s-style London differs fundamentally from Huxleys's world of extensive technical progression or Zamyatin's science and logic-based society. Dorain Lynskey, in his The Ministry of Truth, also suggests that "equality and scientific progress, so crucial to We, have no place in Orwell's static, hierarchical dictatorship; organised deceit, so fundamental to Nineteen Eighty-Four, did not preoccupy Zamyatin".
It was thought at the time that a fission weapon would be quite simple to develop and that perhaps work on a hydrogen bomb (thermonuclear weapon) would be possible to complete before the end of the Second World War. However, in reality the problem of a regular atomic bomb was large enough to preoccupy the scientists for the next few years, much less the more speculative "Super" bomb. Only Teller continued working on the project—against the will of project leaders Oppenheimer and Hans Bethe. The Joe-1 atomic bomb test by the Soviet Union that took place in August 1949 came earlier than expected by Americans, and over the next several months there was an intense debate within the U.S. government, military, and scientific communities regarding whether to proceed with development of the far more powerful Super.Young and Schilling, Super Bomb, pp. 1–2.
Stéphane Mallarmé's profound interest in the limits of language as an attempt at describing the world, and his use of convoluted syntax, and in his last major poem Un coup de dés, the spacing, size and position of words on the page were important modern breakthroughs that continue to preoccupy contemporary poetry in France. Arthur Rimbaud's prose poem collection Illuminations are among the first free verse poems in French; his biographically inspired poem Une saison en enfer (A Season in Hell) was championed by the Surrealists as a revolutionary modern literary act (the same work would play an important role in the New York City punk scene in the 1970s). The infernal images of the prose poem "Les Chants de Maldoror" by Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont would have a similar impact. The crisis of language and meaning in Mallarmé and the radical vision of literature, life and the political world in Rimbaud are to some degree the cornerstones of the "modern" and the radical experiments of Dada, Surrealism and Theatre of the Absurd (to name a few) in the 20th century.
Kagan p. 412 During this time, the Russian threat to the east began to preoccupy Napoleon so much that Murat was given command of the right wing of the army, consisting of Ney's and Lannes's corps.Kagan p. 414 The French were separated in two massive wings at this point: the forces of Ney, Lannes, and Murat to the west were containing Mack while those of Soult, Davout, Bernadotte, and Auguste Marmont to the east were charged with guarding against any possible Russian and Austrian incursions. On 11 October Ney made a renewed push on Ulm; the 2nd and 3rd divisions were to march to the city along the right bank of the Danube while Dupont's division, supported by one dragoon division, was to march directly for Ulm and seize the entire city. The orders were hopeless because Ney still did not know that the entire Austrian army was stationed at Ulm. The 32nd Infantry Regiment in Dupont's division marched from Haslach towards Ulm and ran into four Austrian regiments holding Boefingen.
According to John Berger, Kahlo's popularity is partly due to the fact that "the sharing of pain is one of the essential preconditions for a refinding of dignity and hope" in twenty-first century society. Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of MoMA, has stated that Kahlo's posthumous success is linked to the way in which "she clicks with today's sensibilities – her psycho-obsessive concern with herself, her creation of a personal alternative world carries a voltage. Her constant remaking of her identity, her construction of a theater of the self are exactly what preoccupy such contemporary artists as Cindy Sherman or Kiki Smith and, on a more popular level, Madonna... She fits well with the odd, androgynous hormonal chemistry of our particular epoch." Kahlo's posthumous popularity and the commercialization of her image have drawn criticism from many scholars and cultural commenters, who think that, not only have many facets of her life been mythologized, but the dramatic aspects of her biography have also overshadowed her art, producing a simplistic reading of her works in which they are reduced to literal descriptions of events in her life.
Also working with Dean is Calvin (Robert Patrick Benedict), a hopeless romantic who cannot urinate in public, and Dan (David Koechner), the uptight manager who is grooming Dean as his protégé. Rounding out the staff are 17-year-old hostess Natasha (Vanessa Lengies), abrasive waitress Naomi (Alanna Ubach), waitress (and Monty's ex- girlfriend) Serena (Anna Faris), Dean's girlfriend and fellow waitress Amy (Kaitlin Doubleday), stoner busboys T-Dog and Nick (Max Kasch and Andy Milonakis), head chef Raddimus (Luis Guzman), the insane, unsanitary chef Floyd (Dane Cook), lesbian bartender Tyla (Emmanuelle Chriqui), and the pensive and philosophical dishwasher Bishop (Chi McBride). The waiters preoccupy themselves with endless gossip, complaining about the customers, seeking covert revenge on particularly rude or annoying patrons, and playing a special kind of game which involves flashing genitalia at a fellow worker (the "Penis Showing Game," which was referred to informally as the "penis game" in some movie reviews, including the Toronto Star and BBC in film reviews from 2005 and 2006 respectively). Each employee has his or her own problems and stories, which are interwoven with the ebb and flow of business.

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