If those doings are not for the most part the stuff of high drama — the discovery of a neighborhood Peeping Tom, the staging of a toga party — the preoccupations are universal.
Clegg said his party's "real preoccupation" were the "millions of people in lower or middle incomes".
The success of populist parties and their preoccupation with domestic growth through protectionist measures is at odds with international solidarity.
Today, one minister calls it "a very serious preoccupation".A party official fears it is "structurally impossible" to diminish the Front's appeal.
It seems quaint now to recall that the Schlesingers, pere et fils, were so recently struggling to liberate historical narrative from its once exclusive preoccupation with party politics, war and diplomacy.
His much-chronicled decline and fall by his sixties coincided with his growing preoccupation with parties and art.
His much-chronicled decline and fall by his 60s coincided with his growing preoccupation with parties and art.
This confirms the results of Ruggie (1983), Diamant and Katzenstein (1986) and Rodrik (1997) but goes against those of Ross (1997, 2000) and Armingeon et al. (2001), for whom left-wing parties have a greater preoccupation with the protection of workers through social security expenditure.
While the web certainly facilitates stalking behaviour by enabling access and levels of surveillance far beyond what was possible before, it also provides external triggers that may both increase preoccupation with a party who has not consented to any form of connection, and offers greater opportunities to intimidate.
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).
The time seems ripe for the slashing and squeezing instincts that still lurk in Tory and Labour breasts to burst forth and for tax to become a defining issue between the parties, as well as a preoccupation within them.How to spend itYet it probably won't, for three reasons.
