Imperial trade and investment made London a world financial centre; the City became vital to the British economy, while at the same time, preoccupied as it was with foreign deals, largely separate from the rest of it.
The same subject preoccupies another Iranian film showing at the festival, Bahman Ghobadi's drama about Tehran's underground rock scene, No One Knows About Persian Cats.
As in Proust's novel, the narrator of "My Struggle" has the same name as the author and seems to have lived much the same life, to have been preoccupied by much the same concerns and to be, as was Proust's narrator, in search of a subject for his story, which subject turns out to be that very search.
Maimonides was at the same time a vigorous adherent of the Aristotelian worldview and was thus confronted by the same unending task that preoccupied the great teachers of medieval Christendom.
At the same time, outsiders are preoccupied by the prospect of maritime disputes with China in the East China Sea, over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, or in the South China Sea.
Those familiar with Thompson's historical writings recognized in his peace activism the same concern that had preoccupied him throughout his scholarly life: creating a space for grassroots human agency and for moral dissidence against the arrogance of the powerful.
Around the same time, Chomsky became preoccupied with the issue of America's supplying of weapons to Indonesia when the Indonesian government was killing thousands of people in East Timor.
At the same time, outsiders are preoccupied by the prospect of maritime disputes with China in the East China Sea, over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, or in the South China Sea.With so many pressing international problems, why should any outsider stir up difficulties over Tibet now?(Picture credit: AFP).
At the same time in another workshop at the Académie Suisse, the young artists Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro were preoccupied with the same problems as Renoir and his friends.
It was soon classified under the indie-rock genre emo, which is full of small, nervous voices and lyrics that confess to endless insecurities, wounds and second thoughts -- the same things that preoccupy the acoustic pop songwriters.
