His preoccupations – supporting Chelsea, building a rapport with Poppy Morgan, a girl at school, keeping out of the way of his sister and her annoying friends – are entirely predictable, entirely childlike and entirely harmless.
By all accounts under Shoesmith's leadership Haringey's children's department had all the hallmark problems that social workers have long complained about; overstretched staff with inadequate support and a preoccupation with targets, as well as the over-bureaucratised command and control culture, for which the Munro inquiry into child protection recently criticised modern children's services.
The polar opposite of a preoccupation with state support of terrorism is the view that, in the modern world, intense hatred is self-organizing and self-empowering.
This preoccupation with control draws support from modern theories of financial portfolio management.
The singer considered it to be a "small development idea", as they were also unable to provide much support for it due to their preoccupation with other releases.
The proposition's strong support, analysts say, underlines a widespread preoccupation about the fast-paced immigration that has drastically altered California's demographic mix since the 1980s.
Responses of patients about the interview (Table 5) showed a significant training effect: patients perceived an improvement of HCP skills related to 'clarification of the preoccupations' (P⩽0.05) and 'information and support' (P⩽0.01).
In the year since the Saudi and Yemeni branches merged, Al Qaeda has taken full advantage of the government's preoccupation with the rebellions, building support from the tribal structures and traditions in Yemen's poor and lawless territories.
I'd argue, furthermore, that these preoccupations are preventing people from seeking support, as if nothing could be more the opposite of these things than admission of the need for help.
How that preoccupation with supporting and enabling greater state powers of intrusion on the one hand vs an apparent desire to modernize problematic older laws pertaining to interception powers plays out remains to be seen.
