In Europe, where electorates were constantly preoccupied with foreign policy, this problem was most acute.
Jesus himself, in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke), was constantly preoccupied with the effort of making people better, of having them bring forth "good fruit".
We now know that poor people experience cognitive exhaustion, because they are constantly preoccupied by money, food, housing, and other basics of survival; meanwhile, the well-off distract themselves with smartphones.
They would like, perhaps, to eat a meal together, hold a conversation or play a game, without feeling their mother or father is incapable of hearing a word they say, because they are constantly preoccupied by thoughts of work.
To work in a hospital today is to be constantly preoccupied with money, and one of the more grating features as far as the Sacred Heart hospitalists are concerned has been the administration's celebration of "skin in the game". That means creating financial incentives for doctors to hit performance targets — like lowering patient's length of stay and doing well on patient satisfaction surveys.
Campbell, like Blair, was constantly preoccupied with the knowledge that Labour had been elected with a proper majority just twice before in its history – in 1945 and 1966 – and on both occasions had gone down to defeat at the following election through the absence of a sustaining strategy and an ability to manage the media.
I was constantly preoccupied with food.
The false self on the other hand is constantly preoccupied with the past and the future, using the present moment to dream and regret about the past or to worry/ fantasize about the future.
I've felt the same way over and over that pointing to my difference only sets it in sharper relief, when I may be the only one constantly preoccupied with it.
That is what constantly preoccupies me". With the looming prospect of Jewish demographic inferiority and the first intifada not far from his consciousness, Beilin conceived of the Oslo formula almost a decade ago as "a Zionist act that was aimed at saving the Jewish nation-state". Today, Sharon confronts a combination of factors unprecedented in Israel's short history.
