"Because she has become a preoccupation for us, and our relationship with her is more public than his?"

But your preoccupation with the dead is a natural thing.

But there is, I think, another reason for this preoccupation.

Her preoccupation with him went back to when she had first learned to walk.

In my preoccupation, I did not see the running man coming up the hill.

Whatever its reason, the period of deep preoccupation did not last for long.

The program is turning into a preoccupation for some parents, too.

So your preoccupation with it is something I'll address one time only.

The two key preoccupations of the coming years came together.

Christian preoccupation with the end started right at the beginning.

She did not want to think what lay beyond her current preoccupation.

Good health is a preoccupation of our age and much has been written the subject.

A preoccupation with details is true, however, to her subject.

I know that is one of your most important preoccupations.

Class is a preoccupation on either end of the television scale.

What do you think accounts for this preoccupation with women?

Suicide is, in fact, a major preoccupation of the book.

In her preoccupation with the future, she had nearly forgotten the man.

Who knew what the woman might say if she remembered her preoccupation!

You need to be able to leave your daily preoccupations outside.

Yet only in Washington is it a subject of daily preoccupation.

There was also a scientific preoccupation with the idea of race.

Such preoccupations come through time and again in his religious works.

There are many here in the capital who use this preoccupation.

Hypochondriasis is excessive preoccupancy or worry about having a serious illness.

The Agricultural Safety and Health Bureau will do a preoccupancy inspection of the housing.

Water and sewage inspections have to be done by the county health department before the Agricultural Safety and Health Bureau will do its preoccupancy inspection.

In 2009, the Agricultural Safety and Health Bureau completed 1,367 preoccupancy housing inspections of migrant farmworker housing and 68 compliance inspections.

The tenants in the F.H.A. program were required to pass an 18-hour preoccupancy training course teaching housekeeping and minor home maintenance skills, as well as pass a criminal and credit check.