Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love.
Lucas Papademos, the new Greek prime minister, is preoccupied with the financial crisis and uncomfortable dealing with the name row.
And for all that the scene is preoccupied with alienation and misery, its champions claim it offers a comradeship of sorts.
She says the all-male hierarchy is preoccupied with its own power and has lost the mission of the faith - to serve the poor.
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These days, he is preoccupied with such issues as pollution and genetic manipulation: the vanishing dodo in his Dodon't is a comment on DNA disaster.
You can be sure that President Obama would welcome an America in which the Republican Party is preoccupied with remaking itself into a watered-down version of the Democrats.
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Afghanistan's political system is preoccupied with the 2014 elections.
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Meanwhile, the OFES is preoccupied with magnetic fusion research since inertial fusion has always had an uneasy collusion and intertwined nature of being weapons related and living in dark corners of classification and secrecy.
"If an employee is at the beach but is preoccupied with work and reaching for the phone, it defeats the whole purpose of getting away, " says Rosemary Haefner, of human resources firm CareerBuilder.com, who conducted the poll.
Moore said he is too preoccupied with taking care of his girlfriend, who is suffering from an infection that is damaging her liver, to look for new furniture.
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Then again, it could be that Redmond is more preoccupied with Android nowadays.
The business press is more preoccupied with Enron and maybe even Argentina.
Chinese media is once more preoccupied with North Korea but there is also coverage of plans to demolish an ancient temple.
This is a timely reminder that however preoccupied this country is right now with itself, it has become and will remain intimately involved in the Middle East and beyond.
"The problem is that we are preoccupied with the sexual behaviour of the young and consequently thirtysomethings are a forgotten generation in sexual health, " she says.
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The start of the second term is likely to be preoccupied with more of the same: International efforts to remove al-Qaeda-linked rebels from the north of Mali - by force or negotiation or both - and efforts to ensure that Zimbabwe and Kenya avoid repeating the violence that wrecked their last elections.
This is mostly because Congress has been preoccupied with other matters.
Mr Jospin, preoccupied with the economy, is saying no more for the moment.
Whether such leverage is sufficient to persuade the Obama administration, preoccupied with a range of competing domestic and international challenges, to depart from a policy of "strategic patience" is still unclear, even allowing for the appointment of a new secretary of state - John Kerry - who reportedly favours a more engagement-centred approach to North Korea.
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Individual behavior typically is not monitored closely, as organizations are more preoccupied with establishing and reinforcing cultural values.
It is suggested that the UN is unable to achieve this as it would be preoccupied with ensuring everyone has a say and therefore that nothing actually gets done.
The centre-left candidate, Pier Luigi Bersani, said in Milan on Sunday night that the country was facing ruin whilst Mr Berlusconi was preoccupied with Ruby - the young woman he is accused of paying as an under-aged prostitute.
While banks and credit card companies are preoccupied with hardware infrastructure and the mobile app, Apple is playing on a whole new level.
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Getting into college is very competitive, tuition is very expensive, and, with economic uncertainty, students become preoccupied with majoring in subjects that may lead to jobs.
With Mr Fonseka, his only serious challenger, out of the way and the rest of the opposition preoccupied with leadership struggles and intra-party fighting, Mr Rajapaksa is in an enviably stable position.
The essence of evangelism is winning converts -- but that goal can be easily forgotten when you're preoccupied with playing to the base.
But perhaps the granddaddy of all real estate blogs, and certainly one of the best-known, is Curbed, which focuses on real estate in New York, a city whose inhabitants are perennially preoccupied with housing.
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