Is this business about appearance and preoccupation with it a Western phenomenon?

It will also require a commitment to the collective will and a retreat from preoccupation with self interest and narrow national agendas.

Well, that would be fine if it was just a secondary preoccupation in life.

Growth will not be restored easily or quickly. Perhaps we needed the preoccupation with austerity to teach us the value of a balanced growth agenda.

Their plight is more sharply amplified by our present preoccupation with the conflicts raging today that pose a serious threat to international peace and security.

The issue of WTO accession appeared to have been pushed to the back burner, probably as a result of members' preoccupation with the Doha development agenda negotiations.

The informal sector remains the single largest preoccupation of most Liberians, with an estimated 700,000 to 900,000 involved in petty trading and making between 1 and 5 per day.

He was confident that UNOTIL would find the right approach to capacity building, which was his country's main preoccupation.

This preoccupation is spawning a comparison of methodologies, more rigorous definitions of desired outcomes and cost effectiveness of programme components.

Officials preoccupation with commanding respect and not losing face leads them to focus almost exclusively on China s achievements. This is a strategy that risks backfiring, because it misunderstands the dynamics of international politics.

NEW YORK In their preoccupation with fiscal deficits, developed country policymakers continue to neglect a different, yet equally critical, shortfall the trust deficit between advanced and emerging economies when it comes to global governance.

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.

The movements should clearly show the Sudanese and the international community that their main, and only, preoccupation is the improvement of the life of the people they claim to represent.

The Conference emphasized that the important question of reform and expansion of the UN Security Council continues to be the primary preoccupation of the UN membership, including all OIC member states.

In the panel s words, the UN was created above all to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, but today the biggest security threats we face go far beyond states waging aggressive war. The preoccupation of the UN founders was with state security.

To be sure, Vladimir Putin s Russia is nationalistic, awkward, and disposed to dangerous trouble making. But it also faces acute social and public health problems and has 1.3 billion Chinese on its eastern border, and it has important common interests with Europe, including trade in gas and oil and a shared preoccupation with Islamic extremism.

In the view of the Committee, consideration should be given to placing this issue in the report on the reform of the Department, since performance measurement has been a key preoccupation in the reform process.

Moreover, while it was essential to address effectively the very real danger of the acquisition and use of nuclear weapons by non State actors, including terrorists, that preoccupation should not detract from those agreed goals.

The Palestinian cause is not the overriding preoccupation of even the Arab states, so Netanyahu s strategy of defense in depth stands a better chance of success than Abbas s pursuit of statehood through international recognition. Netanyahu s project is not moral.

Yet China s preoccupation with its internal politics is such that it cannot see the price that it pays for reacting to every North Korean outrage with only vague opprobrium, combined with expressions of hope over experience that North Korea will reform. For example, the equanimity of its response to North Korea s military attacks against South Korea in 2010 left South Koreans, who are also China s neighbors, in despair about bilateral relations.

Back in Beijing, the chief preoccupation is to safeguard 11 GDP growth while assuaging Western governments. By the end of this year, China s exports will be 24 higher than in 2006, at 1.2 trillion, and its trade surplus will have grown by 43 .

This is an issue which has repeatedly appeared on the agenda of the Council in the past two years, and one that has been a source of great preoccupation to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU).

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. If Europe were only about gaining the upper hand, it would generate perpetual conflict.

This preoccupation with the Middle East is at the heart of young Muslims politics in British universities, mosques, and websites. Although most do not support Pakistan s Pervez Musharraf, Egypt s Hosni Mubarak, or the al Saud family, they see hypocrisy in Western criticism of these leaders that is designed to manipulate and marginalize after all, the West does not really want to push these regimes too far.

On the left, a preoccupation with Keynesian stimulus reflects a misunderstanding of both the availability of measures (shovel ready projects) and their desirability (whether they will meaningfully change the expectations of households and businesses). Indeed, to counteract the mindset forged in the recent financial crisis, spending measures will need to be longer lasting if they are to raise expectations of future growth and thus stimulate current investment and hiring.

He would not be able to lean on Brazil, the moderating regional power, but would inevitably fall under the sway of Chávez and Morales, deterring foreign investors and harming the country s foreign relations. 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.

To request that the secretariat write a further letter to the Government of Bangladesh regarding the exchange rates used for claims payment expressing the Council's preoccupation on this issue to invite a delegation to attend the next informal meeting of the Working Group and to keep this issue on the agenda of the Governing Council.

Subsistence activities, such as upland and swamp cultivation of the staple food crops, fishing, hunting of wild animals in nearby forests for domestic consumption and sale and other income generating activities, including domestic fuel production and gold and diamond mining, constitute another major preoccupation of 60 to 80 per cent of Liberia's rural poor.

With loving kindness, with patience, with openness?

It will be as with the people, so with the priest as with the servant, so with his master as with the maid, so with her mistress as with the buyer, so with the seller as with the creditor, so with the debtor as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

It will be as with the people, so with the priest as with the servant, so with his master as with the maid, so with her mistress as with the buyer, so with the seller as with the creditor, so with the debtor as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest as with the servant, so with his master as with the maid, so with her mistress as with the buyer, so with the seller as with the lender, so with the borrower as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest as with the servant, so with his master as with the maid, so with her mistress as with the buyer, so with the seller as with the lender, so with the borrower as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

and spoke to them, saying, Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with brass, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.

and spoke to them, saying, Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with brass, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.

Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew and they shall pursue you until you perish.

Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew and they shall pursue you until you perish.

And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.