This question has been preoccupying me since my return from a trip through that quintessentially remote Central Asian land.

The question of whether a wife, for instance, should give up her job to follow her husband to a new work place will preoccupy many families.

Fear not: such questions have preoccupied many great minds over the centuries.

This question of money preoccupies your mind.

Nevertheless, the question of preventing terrorist attacks preoccupied him for the rest of his life.

The strange new questions Ugandans are brooding over will soon preoccupy people in many countries.

But questions of ethics and of ultimate meaning still preoccupy her; now, she treats them as a personal struggle with no clear answers.

The budgetary question they are groping with, each in a different way, is preoccupying official Washington.

It is clear from this starting premise that the same questions preoccupy us.

That question now preoccupies Koreans, and key allies like the United States.