The treasurer added the cabinet, looking forward, was not in the least bit preoccupied with the fate of Rudd but united behind the government's policy agenda.
First, what does it say about the judgment of a parent — father or mother — who takes on tasks that will necessarily keep that parent away from family and preoccupied (at least I would hope preoccupied) with the state of our country, at a time when two of the five children in that family are in particular and poignant need of special attention?
But for all Mr Vavi's talk of reform, the atmosphere at the congress struck me as rather stagnant - at least on day one - preoccupied with narrow internal politics and external finger pointing.
That's bound to keep you preoccupied for at least a month, right? 2. Indulge your desire to plan by offering to host any baby or bridal showers that pop up.
But it's more personal, and at least as preoccupying as my friend Mark's former arguments.
Instead, one had the custom of believing that as long as leftists were preoccupied with writing, at least they weren't making revolution.
How hereditary material is transformed into a myriad range of phenotypic diversity has preoccupied biologists for at least 150 years.
Her characters are largely preoccupied, on the surface at least, with five things: sex, running, God, illness and infidelity, not necessarily in that order.
Mr. Bove also takes some small comfort from the fact that most of the major United States banks have announced big purchases, which at least means that they will be too preoccupied to do any other deals in the near term.
Intelligence has preoccupied scientists and philosophers at least since Plato, but so far nobody has been clever enough to come up with a theory that everyone can agree on.
