During the day , you are preoccupied with many activities .

During the day , you are preoccupied with many activities .

Europe is backtracking on financial reform issues its policymakers are too preoccupied with holding the eurozone together.

Instead, the Kremlin is preoccupied with the profitability and value of the state dominated companies that it controls.

Europe is preoccupied with its attempt to save the eurozone, and has no common foreign or defense policy.

The European Union will be preoccupied with its own internal integration process.

America needs allies, and is not preoccupied by their potential independent strength.

The leadership is preoccupied with taking care of the needs of its own people, many of whom still live in poverty.

Terrorists may also benefit by attacking a preoccupied army and political forces aligned with Musharraf.

Why else would citizens across the developed world be so preoccupied with their economic competitiveness?

While the big players remain preoccupied with their internal changes, the region continues to smolder.

Most Americans are, after all, preoccupied with the US economy s sluggish growth and persistent high unemployment.

In reality, both remain mostly inward looking and preoccupied with the disintegration of their original culture.

After the war ended in January 2009, the international community was preoccupied with opening up Gaza.

Moreover, most of Europe s leaders are preoccupied with the domestic fallout of the eurozone s ongoing struggles.

With regard to NAMA, the Group continued to be preoccupied with the formula, treatment of unbound tariffs, preference erosion and flexibilities.

America s former adversaries either became preoccupied with consolidating or sharing power, suffered domestic defeat, or confronted neighboring states.

For years to come, the private banking sector will be preoccupied with the consequences of the financial crisis.

As the anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff put it, ours is an age in which people almost everywhere seem preoccupied, simultaneously, with transparency and conspiracy.

That is the wrong approach, and it is producing the wrong results. Putin is gaining ground in Ukraine, and Europe is so preoccupied with Greece that it hardly pays any attention.

COPENHAGEN So far, Europe s leaders seem to be mostly preoccupied with finding national answers to the global economic crisis.

Leave them to eat and enjoy , and let them be preoccupied with ( false ) hope . They will come to know !

Leave them to eat and enjoy , and let them be preoccupied with ( false ) hope . They will come to know !

Ethiopia's media outlets, however, were more preoccupied with preparations for and the conduct of the 15 May general elections.

Obama is preoccupied by many pressing problems, and reinventing the international financial system is unlikely to receive his full attention.

The African Union mediation is preoccupied with all these considerations and is working on the basis of the interconnection between the short and long term interests of the Ivorian people.

olanan My father's reactions to Korea's threats Yes, let them get preoccupied with each other and leave us in peace.

One may disagree with this Euro centric interpretation, but what is clear is that the Muslim Middle East will be too preoccupied with internecine struggle to worry about the Palestinians or the existence of Israel.

For the time being, the Chinese may be too preoccupied with their own backyard to pay attention to such insults, but it is foolish to offend them deliberately.

That is true for Obama, for Europeans preoccupied with domestic political headaches, and for Arab leaders eager to see Assad s government collapse but unwilling to say so publicly.

They would natu rally be preoccupied with today s problems the eurozone crisis, global recovery, financial regulation, international macroeconomic imbal ances, and so on.

Symptoms People suffering from hypervigilance may become preoccupied with studying their environment for possible threats, causing them to lose connections with their family and friends.

And perhaps because the music preoccupied my thoughts more than anything else.

But what can our hero do at this hour? He's preoccupied with his own enlarged heart, which, though weary, continues to beat.

But European elites, preoccupied with short term fixes, have not considered the long term need for such revisions to their own detriment.

The population continues to be preoccupied with issues of health, clean production, normal working and residence conditions, and radiation safety in the environment.

The Obama administration, focused on the November presidential election, is not interested in having to deal with a major crisis in Syria in the coming months, and is preoccupied with the risk of being drawn into another military entanglement.

The ECB is preoccupied by moral hazard risk the idea that supporting spending will relieve the pressure on governments to act.

Arabs throughout the region, though preoccupied with domestic affairs, are nonetheless pressing a new generation of leaders to support the Palestinian cause more actively.

each of them will have a task to keep him preoccupied on that day .

each of them will have a task to keep him preoccupied on that day .

In 1931, the experts were preoccupied with the complexities posed by the combination of reparations and war debts arising out of World War I with large private sector indebtedness.

Europe s leaders are so preoccupied with the crisis of the day that they have no time to ponder the long term consequences of their actions.

The world is not preoccupied today by the limits to growth, but awareness of the consequences of growth on the earth s climate and ecosystem is becoming prevalent.

Preoccupied by crisis, the world s leading economies seem unwilling to make significant new emissions reduction commitments.