Watching for evidence of friction along these ideological faultlines is a major preoccupation of the Scottish media.
But it is unlikely that health-consciousness or even a sense of balance will become a preoccupation of the proprietors anytime soon.
Quality control, which was a preoccupation of Lion's, saw to it that there were very few duds among Blue Note's release schedule, even as the pace of their recording increased.
Impressionists have become the preoccupation of an older generation.
Addressing the intersection of such disciplines will be the special focus of the Casey Institute, just as it was the life-long preoccupation of the distinguished Wall Street financier, lawyer and public servant for whom the Institute is named.
India's low productivity is the central preoccupation of McKinsey's analysis, which starts with the unexceptionable observation that India needs nearly to double its economic growth rate to 10% if it is to employ the masses due to enter the workforce over the next decade.
In the 1990s, the Nazis' attempt at the destruction of the Jewish people became a central preoccupation, not just of American Jews, but of Americans generally.
Bank supervisors, because of their preoccupation with systemic risk, have tended to be quite tolerant of anti-competitive behaviour by banks.
Second, the galleries of portraits reveal the extraordinary tentacle of the Habsburg family and the overweening preoccupation with dynastic succession and the demands of strategic alliances.
It all depends on whether Mr Hobsbawm can fit a topic into his grand preoccupation with the topic of how humanity got from the neolithic to the nuclear age.
Fourth, the United States must be clearly able to project power in two distant theaters simultaneously in order to prevent a second adversary from taking advantage of our preoccupation with a first .
True, a preoccupation with the relative merits of various types of decorative sticky tape is not for everyone.
The organizations start losing money and hence go out of business, until a preoccupation with efficiency re-emerges.
This led to a discussion of today's operatic preoccupation with singers' physical allure.
Dr Williams was also wasted because of the Church's preoccupation with its divisions.
Aziz said that his country's neighbors don't share the U.S. preoccupation with whether Iraq has amassed weapons of mass destruction.
In part, argues Mr Ben-Ami, this reflected a wider Palestinian preoccupation with vindication and justice, at the expense of a pragmatic search for a solution.
The most common warning signs, according to the guide, include uncontrolled anger, a background of drug and alcohol abuse and a preoccupation with weapons and explosives.
But from now onwards the partners' preoccupation will be to seduce as broad a swathe of the electorate as they can, which means reaching out to the middle as well as cultivating their bases.
In fact, Kessler notes that 20% of healthy weight and 50% of obese individuals score high on behaviors like loss of control over eating, lack of feeling satisfied by eating food, and preoccupation with food.
In management , firms might spend less time on the 20th Century preoccupation with improving efficiency rather than on the 21st Century challenge of generating customer delight through continuous innovation.
The future was also a preoccupation among the women we talked to in a western suburb of Houston called Cinco Ranch, where we went to a birthday party at a French bakery.
Starr's probe of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky was a national preoccupation that created political turmoil for more than a year.
Mr Mugabe did stray from his usual targets - former British Prime Minister Tony Blair still a major preoccupation - to touch on the "momentous" but unfinished events of the Arab Spring - an awkward subject, you might think, for a man who has been in power for more than three decades.
His preoccupation with Unefon financing allowed rival Televisa to come back with a string of successful nighttime shows.
His preoccupation with financing Unefon allowed rival Televisa to come back with a string of successful nighttime shows.
Our preoccupation with short-term, self-interest is causing us to be out of balance in our giving and receiving with each other.
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Yet America's main preoccupation in the longer run will be China, suggests Karsten Voigt, co-ordinator of relations with America at the German foreign ministry.
"The sector is made up of 19 or 20 industries, so a decline of 6, 000 jobs spread out that much isn't a big preoccupation, " says Huether.
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