Given this preoccupation, governments may calculate that whatever Turkey does or does not do, the Turkish-Syrian border will be more closely guarded in future.
I give Cathar these preoccupations.
In contrast, given the preoccupation with physical illness usually demonstrated by people with non-psychotic mental illness [ 34], our participants in this sub-group viewed their physical health as one of their greatest priorities.
Given our natural preoccupations with wine coolers, sunburns, and hot dogs, it's easy to forget that the holiday exists not only to provide us a farewell bender to summer, but to honor the labor movement.
Given our preoccupation with our daughter's recovery and my husband's mother's illness, we were no doubt lousy company.
Given his preoccupation with resonance, acoustic and metaphorical, it was perhaps inevitable that Arnold has become interested in MRI technology, not just for what it reveals about the body and the brain but for what it is on an experiential level.
Given Americans' current preoccupation with high-fiber diets, and their endless parental fussing over the contents of children's diapers, one could easily argue that old fears of autointoxication must still be with us.
Unsurprisingly, given such preoccupations, Scriabin, along with Schoenberg, was one of several musical contributors to The Blue Rider, the pioneering magazine that Kandinsky and a group of like-minded artists issued in 1912.
And, well, they should be given modern preoccupations.
"African Cats," a striking Disneynature documentary about the life journeys of lions and cheetahs, could be subtitled "What's for Dinner?" given its preoccupation with these majestic animals' search for sustenance.
Since 2004 Mr. Gehr has been working exclusively in digital, a counterintuitive development given his longtime preoccupations.
