For many policy actors this requires a change in perspective and culture away from a preoccupation with established and formal institutions such as medical colleges, pharmacies and hospitals.
Influence has long been Bloom's abiding preoccupation, and the one that established him, in the 1970s, as a radical, even disruptive presence amid the groves of academe.
Though he could scarcely be accused of making the same movie twice, Jeff Nichols has established a set of cinematic themes and preoccupations as consistent as those of any American writer-director working today.
Previous research has established gender differences in self esteem as well as weight preoccupation.
A collection of magazine columns published as Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) established Didion's reputation as an essayist and confirmed her preoccupation with the forces of disorder.
And this initially cognitive discovery leads to a conative change: "Realizing this he is established as a lover of all beautiful bodies and relaxes this excessive preoccupation with one, thinking less of it and believing it to be a small matter" (210b4 6).
The Yahwist, however, has one very definite theological (or theo-political) preoccupation: to establish Israel's divinely bestowed right to the land of Canaan.
Having made use of the pragmatic rule in his study of religious experience, he now turned it upon the ideas of change and chance, of freedom, variety, pluralism, and novelty, which, from the time he had read Renouvier, it had been his preoccupation to establish.
He has made spiritual imagination — faith that goes beyond the material and the established; goodness that can be striven for and accomplished — seem consistent with secular preoccupation.
Hollyoaks' early preoccupation with teenage party-going and who's-snogging-who storylines established a firm following (before the recent arrival of grittier themes, such as last week's look at male rape).
