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But it became preoccupied by bizarre intrigues over intelligence.

As it became preoccupied with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. left East Asia and the Pacific region to the biggest actor in the area, China.

Israel has been trying for decades, the report says, to undermine Egypt's vital Nile water source so that it becomes preoccupied with water shortages rather than the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Were the passions of my youth expending as I became preoccupied with skin, babies and diet?

The summer I was eight, I became preoccupied with the thought that I was going to die.

Mr. Pettibon, whose piece uses a frayed fiberglass nose cone as a kind of homage to his father, Regis Charles Ginn, a B-17 navigator during World War II, said in an interview that in working on it he became preoccupied not only with airplane art but also with the messages soldiers painted on bombs and missiles, intended for recipients who would never live to read them.

But after the war the left became preoccupied with abstract issues: it stopped worrying about death and started worrying about dignity.

Moreover, it was Crick who, later in his career, became preoccupied with the molecular mechanisms of the essentially 'epigenetic' phenomenon of neurobiological memory.

Andrei became preoccupied with researching gun laws.

In the 1980s feminism became preoccupied with "identity politics".

But he became preoccupied with his "North and South" trilogy.