France s loss of influence in Europe is no longer at stake today, because the notion of influence presupposes that the overriding preoccupation of EU member states is to advance their own national interests.

The preoccupation of the UN founders was with state security.

NEW YORK Preoccupation with Afghanistan s disputed presidential election is understandable.

But should it have become the primary preoccupation of the World Trade Organization?

But this seems like collateral damage from the pursuit of an overriding political objective.

Moreover, democracy in India is not an elite preoccupation, but matters most to the underprivileged masses.

Back in Beijing, the chief preoccupation is to safeguard 11 GDP growth while assuaging Western governments.

Deflation will be the overriding topic when America's Federal Reserve Board meets on June 24th.

The Fed s overriding objective is to lift inflation and ensure that it remains above 2 .

Put differently, the overriding Good in any historical account can only be the religious front.

Officials preoccupation with commanding respect and not losing face leads them to focus almost exclusively on China s achievements.

We meet in Brussels this week, and our overriding priority is to reach agreement on the constitution.

A popular yearning for change, not the security situation, is now the overriding concern of ordinary Koreans.

This preoccupation with the Middle East is at the heart of young Muslims politics in British universities, mosques, and websites.

Lacking coherent principles or an overriding ideology, these groups fragment when their leadership changes or splits, as Congress did.

The overriding idea is that the US and its close allies get to choose who governs in the region.

Over the past few decades, most central banks have focused on price stability as their single and overriding objective.

John Maynard Keynes prophesied in the 1920 s that as countries grew wealthier, people s preoccupation with money and possessions would diminish.

Given the international preoccupation with China s economic success, the country is now a highly salient market to investors all over the world.

My preoccupation is to have works of art that speak to the issues, in places that will stir further conversations and awareness.

The new trove of WikiLeaks covering documents from Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs speak to a preoccupation with their regional rival Iran.

The eminent columnist Amin M. Lakhani recently argued in the Dawn , Pakistan's largest circulation newspaper, that Pakistan's singular preoccupation with Kashmir...has been self defeating.

To be precise, two overriding EU security interests are at stake avoiding a war with Iran and preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power.

Vested political interests in the financial system remain strong in many parts of the world and the immediate political cost of overriding regulators is low.

Why does it matter that it is the majority of my fellow citizens, rather than the decisions of a monarch, that is overriding my will?

Again, most of the responses belong to men whose overriding concern is the degree to which a lower back tattoo signals a woman s sexual promiscuity.

The Managing Director, Mr. Michel Camdessus, thinks he is the economic czar of the region, overriding his own staff as he dispenses commands to sovereign governments.

In April, at this year s Boao Forum (the Asian Davos) on Hainan Island, Chinese President Hu Jintao asserted Peace and development remain the overriding themes of the times.

Our overriding task is to construct a digital way of life that reinforces our existing sense of ethics and values, with security, trust, and fairness at its heart.

But rapid punishment most likely execution threatens to bury the full record of decades of tyranny under the apparently overriding purpose of fighting the insurgency by other means.

This year's day saw Putin sack the then Prime Minister, Mikhail Kasyanov an architect of Russia's pro business reforms as if to celebrate the overriding power of political technology.

Finally, China s growth must continue to depend on its exploitation of external markets, which makes it vulnerable in a world that is increasingly making democracy and human rights a central preoccupation.

Nevertheless, her chief preoccupation was still herself herself in so far as Vronsky held her dear and in so far as she could compensate him for all he had given up.

As a result, any country formulating strategies to counter the destructive forces of globalization should give overriding priority to a self centred economic development strategy, preferably within a regional framework.

Oblonsky evidently wanted the same thing, and on his face Levin noticed the preoccupation, which every true sportsman feels before the shooting begins, and also a little good natured cunning, characteristic of him.

The overriding conclusion that emerges from any analysis of these unhappy events is that nothing will ever be the same again the relationship between the state and the markets needs to be rethought.

BUENOS AIRES The global financial crisis has raised fundamental questions regarding central banks mandates. Over the past few decades, most central banks have focused on price stability as their single and overriding objective.

Steve Grand he's the one on the left, Douglas Adams is on the right Steve Grand, in his book, Creation Life and How to Make It, is positively scathing about our preoccupation with matter itself.

Cuba is out of the question as a patron, due to its preoccupation with Raúl Castro s efforts to reshape its depleted economy in an improbable bid for Chinese style capitalism in a one party state.

The bigger story has been concealed, as ever, by the media s daily preoccupation with current bloodshed Over the last two decades, major wars and episodes of mass violence worldwide have become much less frequent and deadly.

The two types of post academic university that they represent the one a diploma mill, the other a patent factory share an overriding interest in benefiting those who can pay at the point of delivery.

But your lessons in history, philosophy, and literature will be just as important, because it is vital not only that you have the right tools, but also that you never lose sight of the purposes and overriding social goals of finance.

China finds itself in a delicate position, pulled in one direction by its desire to avoid a precipitous North Korean collapse, and in the opposite direction by its overriding need to deepen economic relations with the US, Japan, and South Korea.

The high court of the Indian state of Karnataka has recently ruled in a child marriage case that the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006 (PCMA) has overriding effect over the provisions of the Muslim Personal Law, where the marriage of a girl child is allowed once she attains puberty.

Criminal proceedings may then be downsized to a confession of a single massacre, as subsequent trials are shelved to open the way for punishment unlike, say, the Milosevic trial, which is now dragging into its fourth year. But rapid punishment most likely execution threatens to bury the full record of decades of tyranny under the apparently overriding purpose of fighting the insurgency by other means.