She was busy doing her homework.

She was busy with household work.

She was busy with the housework.

She was busy with the housework.

Layla was a busy mom.

Tom opened the door and asked Mary if she was busy.

Tololy from Jordan was also busy building her own snowbabe.

Banks were too busy collecting fees on new loans, and paying their managers outlandish bonuses.

I'm not busy.

In 2003, 51 women and 168 men were occupying management positions.

I'm very busy.

I am busy now.

I'm sorry, I'm busy right now.

When Herzen was writing his words, Moscow was not only busy successfully putting down the Poles, reasserting its rule there for another half century, but also, together with China, carving up Central Asia, known then as Turkestan.

Over the last two weeks, this Assembly has been engaged in the High level Plenary Meeting and the general debate, and the world summit has adopted the outcome document.

At the same time, the major European powers were still involved in the Napoleonic Wars which did not fully end until 1815.

Here's what happens We're all busy. Everyone's busy. A woman's busy.

She's busy now, so she can't talk with you.

While some people are busy with what's happened in France and others with the Golden Globe, suddenly a clergyman comes up with a fatwa which says that building snowmen is forbidden. Get back into your hole. You just want to steal the limelight

China will be busy addressing its own internal contradictions for a long time yet.

Space Adventures was pushing for 2009, but I was pretty busy.

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

As US Army General Antonio Taguba's report on the abuses at Abu Ghraib puts it, the guard force was actively engaged in setting the conditions for successful exploitation of the internees.

Which allows me, from the beginning of spring training to the end of the fall, to have something to occupy my mind and heart other than my work.

Christine Lagarde, a competent and well regarded technocrat, will have her hands full with three important challenges.

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

Eighty of these posts are currently filled, including posts for the capacity development of the National Parliament and the training of judicial actors.

Governments have mainly been concerned about hacker attacks on their own bureaucracy s information technology infrastructure, but there are social vulnerabilities well beyond government computers.

But, to what extent is Europe preoccupied with perpetual peace at the expense of its current, vastly different ailments? Is this award a swan song confirmation of the moribund state of the European project, as the 2001 Nobel Prize was for the United Nations?

For a while now, I have been trying to make time to write something new on this blog.

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

In any case, she will have her hands full pushing through the economic reforms for which she will be elected and which are her top priority.

But she has also been engaged with all of the other practical details of financial reform for as long as anyone in part due to her experience as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

And the real price of 9 11 may be the opportunity costs for most of the first decade of this century, as the world economy gradually shifted its center of gravity toward Asia, the US was preoccupied with a mistaken war of choice in the Middle East.

This was one of the first Linux installations on a busy network and revealed many bugs in the networking code.

There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug.

Meanwhile, Asia is being roiled by intensifying territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas, as countries revive old claims against each other. East and South Asia are embroiled in an arms race, mainly at sea.

In the social service sector, 80 of employees are women and 50 of managerial positions are held by women.

Of the 761 currently approved posts (470 Professional, 288 General Service and 3 Security Service), as at 31 March 2005, a total of 718 were encumbered (445 Professional, 270 General Service and 3 Security Service).

The US under Obama has increasingly ceded ground to China, a trend that admittedly began when the Bush administration became preoccupied with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Shanghai Pudong is the classic example of how an empty urban construction project in the late 1990 s quickly became a fully occupied urban center, with a population today of roughly 5.5 million.

So, for most raped Swedish women, the shelters are full, the hotlines inactive, and the police selectively look the other way that is, unless they are busy chasing down a globally famous suspect.

The new Obama administration will have only a few months to develop meaningful proposals that can win domestic support, and will be preoccupied with the aftermath of the current financial debacle and the Iraq war.

Moreover, the fact that most posts are occupied is a factor that might delay significant change, at least in the near term, leaving the problem of overrepresentation, even if the new system is applied.

Brazil is similarly preoccupied, appearing to have no grander near term aspirations than to promote stability in Latin America, manage the effects of the global financial crisis, and inspire others in the developing world.