During the day, you are preoccupied with many activities.

During the day, you are preoccupied with many activities.

And among the most reliable is Europe. But Europe is preoccupied with its own economic problems, which have pressed European leadership to the breaking point.

Meanwhile, Algeria is preoccupied with the presidential election in April, in which the incumbent, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, will stand again. Mauritanian politics is polarized, with the government unable to restore confidence.

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.

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

Since 2003, the Government of Zambia had primarily been preoccupied with voluntary repatriation of Angolan and Rwandan refugees.

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.

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.

But what normally preoccupied them also involved yearning to know.

With hearts preoccupied. And they confer in secret. The wrong doers say Is this other than a mortal like you? Will ye then succumb to magic when ye see (it)?

With hearts preoccupied. And they confer in secret. The wrong doers say Is this other than a mortal like you? Will ye then succumb to magic when ye see (it)?

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.

While the big players remain preoccupied with their internal changes, the region continues to smolder. The main question now is whether the leaders who emerge in November will be firefighters or fire starters.

Because the people who can actually solve them actually are too powerful and too preoccupied with something they think of as strategy to actually solve them.

As for counter terrorism, the Council had created four subsidiary bodies that lacked proper coordination and that seemed to be preoccupied with process rather than substance.

and their hearts are preoccupied with trivial matters. The unjust ones whisper to each other and say, Is he (Muhammad) more than a mere mortal like you? How can you follow that which you know is only a magic?

and their hearts are preoccupied with trivial matters. The unjust ones whisper to each other and say, Is he (Muhammad) more than a mere mortal like you? How can you follow that which you know is only a magic?

The European Union will be preoccupied with its own internal integration process. And China, where income per person is one eighth the level of the US (adjusted for purchasing power parity), is simply too poor to become the new hegemony.

Another reason why international observers may be ignoring such obvious risks is that they have been preoccupied with more dramatic events in Greece and Ukraine. Politicians, financial analysts, and political commentators have limited time and attention.

Okay, so, most people only wondered that occasionally, like today, in breaks from whatever normally preoccupied them.

We now note that members of the United Nations are thoroughly preoccupied with the issue of establishing important structures that will contribute greatly to the reform of the Organization.

From artists to scientists, all intellectual workers are preoccupied with the giving and taking of credit. Hiring, promoting, and rewarding academic staff is increasingly based on citation counts the number of times someone receives credit in peer approved publications.

I would certainly hope that we can resolve our differences regarding the scale of contributions so that we can deal with the problems in the outside world, and not be so preoccupied with internal problems.

Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory design thinking.

Turkey an uncertain US ally nowadays, yet still a NATO member may be too preoccupied with domestic political turmoil to respond in detail. But President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan certainly is skeptical of an agreement that Obama describes in almost messianic terms.

Instead, the Kremlin is preoccupied with the profitability and value of the state dominated companies that it controls. Not surprisingly, all corruption indicators have been rising since Putin took over from Yeltsin, whereas they are falling in most post communist countries.

After the war ended in January 2009, the international community was preoccupied with opening up Gaza. Nearly three years later, there is only stalemate to match the wider stalemate in the search for a Palestinian state that can live alongside Israel.

And the simple fact is, if we are focused on ourselves, if we're preoccupied, as we so often are throughout the day, we don't really fully notice the other.

Whether or not recent rumors of bilateral US Iran talks prove true, such initiatives should be welcomed. While the big players remain preoccupied with their internal changes, the region continues to smolder.

For years to come, the private banking sector will be preoccupied with the consequences of the financial crisis. As a result, investors value a strong public partner now more than ever before.

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. War with Jews or Christians has necessarily taken a back seat (except where, as in Egypt and Syria, Christian minorities are perceived to be allied with the regime).

Hang left at cranky, right at preoccupied, U turn on silent treatment, all the way back to tongue kissing and good lovin'.

Moreover, it is widely believed that the Arab Spring has encouraged the Palestinian leadership to seek to change the rules of the game. Arabs throughout the region, though preoccupied with domestic affairs, are nonetheless pressing a new generation of leaders to support the Palestinian cause more actively.

Some 5,000 years ago, the Chinese used acupuncture, not dental care, to treat toothaches. Aristotle was preoccupied with dental issues, writing about treatments of decayed teeth and gum disease, extractions conducted with forceps, and the use of wire to stabilize fractured jaws.

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. Populist political movements in many countries were still thinking about national revival and assertion.

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.

The population continues to be preoccupied with issues of health, clean production, normal working and residence conditions, and radiation safety in the environment. Accordingly, the Government plans to continue to provide financial resources to the affected areas.

The main question is whether China can escape the pull of this old psychological syndrome which kept it preoccupied throughout the twentieth century with debilitating sentiments of weakness, insecurity, and humiliation and allow itself to be guided by a new outlook on the world, and even on old enemies.

While that outcome remains unlikely, it is increasingly clear that many European countries and the EU as a whole need to renegotiate their basic social contracts. But European elites, preoccupied with short term fixes, have not considered the long term need for such revisions to their own detriment.

It is not just the media and the government that is fanning the flames of this hatred. In January 2009, church officials in the town of Luleå cancelled a planned torch light procession for Holocaust Memorial Day, with a spokesman saying that they were preoccupied and grief stricken by Israel s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza.

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. As a result, they continue on a course that perpetuates the division between center and periphery.