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Examples of preoccupation


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The preoccupations of this administrative elite prove remarkably similar to the topics of deliberative oratory : the competing claims of prudence, honour, and necessity.
As such, a review of syllabus types closely parallels the salient preoccupations of the field of language teaching over time.
Neither first-order concerns about scientific accounting, whatever that could mean, nor second-order preoccupations with research methodology need to be taken too seriously.
Where this happened it took away precious time and enormous energy from other economic and social preoccupations.
Flannery progresses through a series of chapters on individual texts where the issue of illusion is examined through a set of related preoccupations.
The preoccupations present as a young child persisted.
They are part of the pursuit of a wider concept of wellbeing that draws on the preoccupations of the body in postmodernity.
When modern preoccupations are set aside, we are led to wonder whether lex in this context is correctly interpreted as 'law' and historia as 'history'.
More likely it reinforces a suspicion (and perhaps fear) that the preoccupations of the specialist do not capture the wider imagination.
As a result of such preoccupations, there has been at best a limited recognition of even the existence of labour-capital relations within artisanal production.
Emotional eating was also significantly correlated with food preoccupations, unlike restrained eating.
What are the preoccupations - thematic, formal, and pragmatic - of practitioners producing site-specific performance?
Precedents for the integration of technical and ethical preoccupations could in fact be found in the remarks of the luminaries themselves.
During the eighteenth century, theological concerns and philosophical preoccupations impacted each other in equal measure.
Despite the small theatre coteries in which they moved, the differences in their educational, religious, and client-patronage ambits contributed to divergent dramaturgic practices and preoccupations.
The connection is not that the playwrights of the sixteenth century mysteriously had the same preoccupations as those of the twentieth.
Their close researches into particular episodes show the range of preoccupations.
While not wanting to over-estimate the coherence of the histories and preoccupations of the heritage business, two important questions deserve further consideration: who represents heritage?
Two current preoccupations in environmental economics are green accounting and sustainability.
Paratactic discourses familiar to students of modernism and post-modernism are brilliantly conjured from the preoccupations of eighteenth-century epistemology and political discourse.
Reflection on such traditional philosophical preoccupations as agency, identity, and rationality, to name but a few, are clearly relevant to problems encountered in the clinic.
Finally, without a man to help her, she returns to such selfindulgent preoccupations as the writing of plays and poetry.
However, contrary to the 1960s, these respondents did not contrast songs expressing local as opposed to foreign preoccupations.
Paradoxically, the main points raised by respondents referred to the same preoccupations and priorities as those of settlement refugees.
The narrative form provides a cultural and political context that makes it possible to understand the dilemmas and preoccupations that found expression in their thought.
My economic problems dictated where my math preoccupations should go-not vice versa.
In music drama, too, we see similar preoccupations.
Spiritual preoccupations now merged with 'sexological' insights into the nature and dynamics of physical 'inversion'.
Contemporaries asserted that obviously women and children were endangered, but one suspects that those most involved in the discussion of exhibitionism had other preoccupations.
Scholarly studies of intellectual movements, for example, can tell us little about the decade's major social trends and preoccupations.
The preoccupations of sketching reflect the preoccupations of designing and hence influence the resulting built architecture [5-7].
They determine the specific preoccupations that emerge from their discourse.
Caregivers who have their own preoccupations or stress may not be available for this normal or "natural" dyadic dance.
Others understood and sympathised with his worldly preoccupations.
However, certain thematic preoccupations or similarities in approach do emerge in the book.
Such forced unions were one of several reasons why many marriages failed, and parish priests often expressed their preoccupations about the unhappy state of couples.
What all these initiatives had in common, however, was their structural weakness, their irregular appearance and their ultimately local scope and preoccupations.
One of the temptations of taking such an historical overview is the wish to compare current concerns with past preoccupations.
In addition to this basic material, each chapter gives a flavour of the preoccupations of current debates in each country.
Occasional entries also record political pronouncements, or highlight local preoccupations with social or economic developments.
I suppose one of your preoccupations in both these plays is identity.
Second, adjustments were made to better answer nurses' preoccupations and needs.
Panic disorder patients were included as a comparison group of anxious patients with prominent somatic symptoms and preoccupations.
The best anthropological studies abound in descriptions of the second-order preoccupations to be found in other cultures.
The images range from maps and plans to bird's eye views or images from ground level, while the preoccupations of the authors are equally diverse.
The terms of the problems reflected concrete preoccupations, for which evidence could be found in the historical context of the time.
The history of a discipline is not so easily dismissed; nor are its central preoccupations so trivial.
The other is the pursuit of stage realism, speech-rhythms, and a kind of higher truth not attained within the confines of 'artificial' forms; these are less strictly musical preoccupations.
Distinguishing between good and evil and understanding the nature of evil are major preoccupations of the popular religious tracts to which we have referred throughout the present text.
All were architectural preoccupations of the 1960s.
Although some general methodological remarks are attached at the end of a lengthy case study, the overall impression is that this paper is mostly driven by exegetical preoccupations.
The timing of these projects, and the changing nature of the colonial state, are therefore central to understanding the parameters and preoccupations of the development agendas at the time.
We seemed to have a g reat deal in common where our aesthetic and metaphysical preoccupations were concerned, and became almost inseparable friends for a time.
In a very real sense, they were the result of their authors' life experience in the tropical forest and as such reveal their preoccupations and interests.
He has used it as a means of expressing his political preoccupations, and it has influenced his compositional response to both literary texts and works of art.
The dictionary's conceptual foundation places current preoccupations with memory to the fore.
The three essays that comprise the volume also work well together, in terms of their shared aims and divergences, offering a series of different perspectives on common preoccupations and subjects.
Needless to say this apocalyptic form of land settlement, driven by the automobile, has tragic dimensions that culturally and economically go well beyond our mandarin preoccupations with the tectonic.
The article will then go on to argue against the notion that the development of such affective ideals precluded the continuation of patriarchal structures and preoccupations with lineage.
The preoccupations of her earlier books - probability, and the law of evidence - are here developed into a work of cultural history that addresses an ambitious and interesting question.
The findings as a whole did not suggest either age-related preoccupations with basic needs or of a lessened purpose in life as a concomitant of age.
Less a polemic than an apology it is, in fact, a surprisingly gentle text, an explanation and justification of the architects work and a statement of his priorities and preoccupations.
Two of the chapters and the end-piece have already appeared in different guises, and the structure of the whole is essayistic, with three overarching preoccupations dancing across the various chapters.
In a city which hoped the university would help advance commerce and the professions, he firmly refused to put such matters at the centre of his preoccupations.
Viewed in this way, they seem to be both a distinctive amalgam of many general late nineteenth-century preoccupations and a partly garbled version of a more up-to-date aesthetic viewpoint.
Sadly, however, several of the other papers are altogether lacking in clarity and in the ability to transcend the particular styles and preoccupations of particular philosophical traditions.
Even epistemologically "flawed" reasoning reflects the preoccupations of afield of knowledge and may have some bearing on programs for social and administrative control enacted in the name of science.
As the contributors share a number of the same preoccupations, several themes do emerge that shed light on the way individual composers have developed and adapted to the times.
The title suggests that it was a reflection of the earlier quartet; but besides mirroring its preoccupations, it also extended them, providing further material for exploration during the 1990s.
There are two questions that seem to be the main preoccupations throughout this volume, to which the author keeps returning in different guises and from different perspectives.
As already noted, there have been several phases of the 'born modern ' hypothesis, each exploring models and preoccupations in comparative history, and in the contemporary questions shaping those concerns.
Political appointments can blur the boundaries between party and state to such a degree that the party loses its capacity to reflect the preoccupations of citizens.
We learn his way of seeing, his predilections, his profound base in a craft tradition, and his many preoccupations - with music, with poetry, with painting, and sculpture.
The other reflects his own preoccupations: that the notion of totalitarianism removes both regimes from an historical relationship in which they borrowed a great deal from each other.
Living at the time in a low-income area, where community problems extended to the most basic social institutions, the literature of bioethics seemed dominated by middle-class preoccupations and fears.
What's the origin of my recent preoccupations?
The book is more a series of meditations than a tightly-structured argument, and consists in a dazzlingly broad series of readings the central preoccupations of which reappear at regular intervals.
There will be no preconceptions or preoccupations on our side.
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I urge those with responsibilities in that area to look a little further than their immediate preoccupations allow.
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Child poverty and the position of lone parents have long been two of my own preoccupations.
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In some, planning has been held up by the necessary preoccupations of fighting and winning the war.
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In excess such a fondness may have its dangers as many otherwise harmless preoccupations.
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There have been preoccupations due to the war, air-raid precaution services, loss of staff from calling up, and so on.
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Again, the selection of subject matter was influenced by domestic preoccupations.
Moreover, many of them tried to translate the values and preoccupations of these shows into terms suitable for the professional stage.
The strength of the notion of the cultural biography, in my mind, is that it provides us with a way to escape from these preoccupations.
The countries represented show a broad similarity of past trajectory and current preoccupations.
Similar preoccupations can be found in the republic's education policy, especially in the 1920s and 1930s.
More and more, in an intellectual atmosphere increasingly sympathetic to utilitarian rationalism, such preoccupations now seemed trivial, even contemptible.
The focus of individual studies has also been affected by the particular preoccupations of the authors concerned.
Reconstructing the preoccupations of the period and applying them to literary texts can be transformative.
The central policy preoccupations of different groups are very different.
First, how did consumption figure among the many preoccupations of middleclass men ?
However, these preoccupations remained embedded in a more traditional framework when concerned with intonation, pitch and rhythmic elements.
While productions cannot be definitive they can, for the purpose of interpretation, be indicative of contemporary preoccupations.
As one part of a broader health system decision-making process, the fourth hurdle system will reflect the overall policy preoccupations of the day.
In the history of technology as in the history of culture, current preoccupations reconfigure the narrative of the past.
Concerns about objectivity in accounting contexts must be seen in terms of preoccupations with the stability and replicability of professional judgment processes.
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