The kids had a spacious playroom, and the staff kept them occupied with lots of games.
When people are occupied with addictive video games they have less motivation to go cause trouble.
Her husband and daughter help her with the household chores and cooking while she is occupied with a baby animal.
Now he is occupied with dump trucks, fire engines, bicycles and candy things that stimulate the senses in new ways.
Without continuous funding to access those sites, my time was often occupied with staying in touch by phone or electronic means.
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This week meanwhile, both parties have been pre-occupied with picking their leaders.
The hospital's entertainment team kept kids occupied with activities like air hockey.
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And when the presidents meet they tend to be occupied with more pressing matters of border security stemming from Mexico's drug war.
The collection was assembled by owner Billy Bickford, a third-generation Guatemalan otherwise occupied with running the family businesses in construction, real estate, and finance.
But if he plays true to form as an active shareholder, Christie's may find itself more occupied with internal affairs than adventures in Paris.
Although Wolves were largely pre-occupied with keeping Pompey's 'fantastic four' at bay during the opening period, they did manage to cause palpitations at the other end.
This becomes problematic in virtual conversations because the massive mental resources that would ordinarily be occupied with scanning your face have nothing to scan, so they imagine it.
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With the Japanese government fully occupied with post-earthquake and tsunami efforts, including explosions at several nuclear power plants that have become an urgent worry, this self-organization is timely.
Today tourists encounter a gauntlet of flashy jewellery shops, but back then the bridge was occupied with butchers and tanners who needed to be close to the river for their businesses.
The women would take turns cooking, one person each day, unless that person was occupied with a john and another had to fill in for her in the kitchen.
This also should be instructional to brands, which sometimes can be overly occupied with living up to social media theories about radical transparency and the inherent value of conversation.
When he wasn't occupied with the Steambox and 4K TVs, our film crew was following Orren around to find out what it's like going to CES as a first-timer.
Insiders used to complain that Mr O'Neill was much too concerned with micro-managing the department: he was allegedly much pre-occupied with filing cabinets and did not focus enough on policy.
Turns out that the part of the brain that is occupied with memorizing irrelevant illogical information such as random digits, is the same (pre-frontal cortex) part that is charged with exercising self control.
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We are now occupied with forming a new government, not a parallel one, but a new and real one - a true government in which corruption, inequality and poverty won't exist any more.
They would have drifted apart, she suspected, becoming wives and mothers, and if they had ever reunited they would have been too occupied with their earthly duties to let the memory of their scheme surface.
Former consecrated women have said they lived regimented, isolated lives where nearly every minute of their day was occupied with chores and prayers, where they were forbidden from forming close friendships and were told how to eat, speak and interact.
It would have been "virtually impossible" for him to order anyone -- including the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), the rebel group in Sierra Leone -- to carry out such actions, Taylor said, because he was too occupied with running his own country.
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But almost all known groups of foragers divide men's and women's work the same way, which makes it likely that the same rule applied in the past, and for the same reasons men tend to be stronger and faster, and women are more likely to be occupied with childcare.
But as those of you who are familiar with the West Wing, it is an amazingly small space, and when the Roosevelt Room is occupied with a meeting -- as is the case at the same time -- the options are few for a meeting of any size that would exceed, say, my office.
Though he devoted much spare time to tracking atmospheric pressure with a portable barometer, by age 50 he had stopped writing scientific papers and instead occupied himself with obscure religious controversies.
They occupied themselves with endless theological debates and glum speculation about where they had gone wrong.
The setting highlights the fundamental interchangeability of rebels and federation in any space opera: this time around, your ship is the last hope of the Federation, fighting through rebel-occupied sectors with vital intelligence.
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What gave the 2001 meeting a bad name, in the eyes of Israel and its friends, was the parallel NGO forum, whose final declaration was so strongly worded equating Israel's policies in the occupied territories with apartheid that Mary Robinson, then UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, refused to endorse it or to transfer it to the main forum.
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