Certain members of the AAL, however, were irked that Giles gave librarianship a bad name - his earth-saving preoccupations often led him to be brusque with non-slayer students, and to ask them to leave the library because he was busy.
In batting for six hours Clarke found an ideal partner in Marcus North, whose more prosaic preoccupation was saving his place after a poor run of form.
Fianna Fáil's preoccupation with saving the Irish economy and in turn saving its own political skin has left the party with little time to ponder establishing a beach-head in the north.
Discretion is the better part of valour, or so Shakespeare wrote long before the first business traveller stumbled up against the Chinese preoccupation with "saving face".
Yet leaders such as Lord Ashley were prepared to probe some Evangelical social issues (e.g., housing) and to stir men's consciences, and, even if their preoccupation was with saving souls, their missionary zeal influenced developments overseas as well as domestic legislation.
Coates's preoccupation is not with saving the soul of America.
Making accounting easier for small companies — and saving them the need to report some losses that big companies can face — has become a new preoccupation of the accounting profession.
The PLA is having to spend much more on pay and conditions for its 2.3m people.Keeping the army happy is a preoccupation of China's leaders, mindful of how the PLA saved the party from probable destruction during the unrest of 1989.
The most popular elements were Luke's humble farm-boy origins, the movie's preoccupation with daddy issues, the specter of incest (though that wasn't exactly clear in the first film), and the guiding hands of the droids (@neilleventhal's entry was representative: "Farmboy, with daddy issues, falls in love with long lost sister, and saves the universe").
Save, save, save your KinzCash.
