| Being with friends, entertaining and creating a luxurious setting all preoccupy you. |
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| I talk about things that preoccupy me, but I've got nothing significant to add to the greater good. |
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| All of these, surely, must preoccupy the Prime Minister to the exclusion of almost everything else. |
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| But these problems, the ones that preoccupy people in their daily lives, are to do with the fact that the transport system isn't good enough. |
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| But nothing seems to preoccupy them quite as much as the urge to settle accounts with the old government. |
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| It looks like the rising number of minorities in the prison system is a chronic problem that will preoccupy us for a long time. |
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| This reflects the fact the subjects other than food have tended to preoccupy classical scholars. |
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| It is not only the formal, but also the processual and transitory elements of human situations that preoccupy the dramaturgists. |
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| Our flight from rationality is evidenced in other panics which currently preoccupy us. |
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| I hope that this overview of CSIS and some of the issues that preoccupy us has been helpful. |
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| In both the areas of public safety and national security, there are traditional and emergent issues that preoccupy the Service. |
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| The challenge of providing security without sapping the vigour of programming will continue to preoccupy the NCC in years to come. |
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| The issue of training, and its role in the changing workplace, continues to preoccupy labour and business. |
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| How does this project fit into a larger view of your practice and some of the enduring issues that have driven your work and continue to preoccupy you? |
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| Treatment is tailored to the specific concerns that preoccupy each person. |
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| Changes that preoccupy some women – such as funding for the NHS – may not hold very much immediate interest for others. |
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| It is clear from this starting premise that the same questions preoccupy us. |
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| It is expected these issues will preoccupy members of Congress from now through May. |
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| Surveys some of the main issues that preoccupy people who suffer from racism or who study its effects. |
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| They can, therefore, preoccupy themselves solely with the safety of installations. |
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| I have no doubt that it will contribute, in a profound way, to greater understanding of questions that preoccupy us more and more as Canadians. |
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| These are questions that preoccupy all of us committed to creating a world of peace, equality and justice. |
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| But above all, the topics it deals with have to directly concern and preoccupy organized civil society and Europe's citizens. |
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| According to surveys, education, employment, social inclusion and health are issues which most of all preoccupy today's young people. |
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| A manifest desire to break with convention would preoccupy Weiss from this point onward. |
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| This issue will continue to preoccupy the leaders of our society for many decades to come. |
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| The might-have-beens preoccupy us as a random natural disaster never can. |
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| Ralph Goodale: Madam Chairman, I am sure the issue of this procurement is one that will preoccupy me and the Minister of National Defence in a major way in the weeks ahead. |
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| In particular, we can look at the distribution questions that should always preoccupy a polity with interests in both economic efficiency and equity. |
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| The material world is preoccupy more by food of the body than of that of the spirit and yet it is the latter which makes possible the Creative Power to be achieved. |
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| Bagehot cannot recall a single doubt expressed from the Conservative frontbench at the time about Saddam Hussein's destructive arsenal or the legal basis for going to war, the two issues that preoccupy Mr Howard now. |
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| Another growing issue is the impact of climate change on both international and internal migration, which is likely to preoccupy the international community in the years to come. |
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| These material worries preoccupy them much more than ethnic grudges or the desire to reconquer territory they believe their nation has lost to a neighbour. |
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| Certainly that has been one of our problems: drug acquisition costs preoccupy one set of budgeters while hospital costs preoccupy another set of budgeters. |
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| Typically, people in these organizations do not preoccupy themselves with the risk of failure, but instead are confident that they can tackle virtually any challenge. |
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| Ethical issues indeed preoccupy not only governments and experts. |
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| When it comes to investing in Africa, China shares none of the idealistic concerns that preoccupy the west: respect for human rights, good governance or other democratic prerequisites. |
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| I appealed to all parties concerned in Chad and in the Central African Republic to choose the path of dialogue, which is the only way to achieve lasting solutions to the problems that preoccupy them. |
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| In place of phallocentrism, the narratives preoccupy us with the gynomania of brown Sello's Medusa. |
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