Translation for 'preoccupy' from English to Russian

to preoccupy sb.

занимать кого-л. [несов.]

• Generally, the idea is that proactivity (a strong offensive action) instead of a passive attitude will preoccupy the opposition and ultimately hinder its ability to mount an opposing counterattack, leading to a strategic advantage.
• Two cases preoccupy Arthur during the course of the novel.
• His 1920 Bampton Lectures showed the theme of ecumenism that would preoccupy him.
• According to the IRA, Special Branch knew Fenton faced execution if he returned and that he was deliberately sacrificed to preoccupy the IRA and divert suspicion from another informer operating within the IRA's Belfast Brigade.
• Before he dies Josephus passes the Grail to his nephew Alan and announces the quest for the object that will eventually preoccupy King Arthur and his court.

• Figlia hires a streetwalker, Rica, to seduce and preoccupy Nick in her room while his men unload the apples without Nick's permission.
• Stéphane Mallarmé's profound interest in the limits of language as an attempt at describing the world, and his use of convoluted syntax, and in his last major poem "Un coup de dés", the spacing, size and position of words on the page were important modern breakthroughs that continue to preoccupy contemporary poetry in France.
• It contains a number of themes that were to preoccupy the author in many of his later works, most notably the individual's search for a unique spiritual and physical identity amidst the backdrops of nature and modern civilization, and the role of art in the formation of personal identity.
• "Only Begotten Daughter" (William Morrow 1990) represented the author’s initial exploration of the subject that would preoccupy him during his mature writing years: the enigma of religious faith.
• SM Art Company had five performance halls with 200 seats or more and explained that it was advantageous to preoccupy the market as it already had a concert hall, a key business in the musical industry.

• In the second part - the nocturne of "Genoa", all the basic mythic figures and scenes that will preoccupy Campana return: port cities, barbaric mother figures, enormous prostitutes, windy plains, the captive teenager.
• It was called "Pečalba" – the theme that will preoccupy his opus.
• Marches, and he was a member of the committee investigating the succession question, which continued to preoccupy parliament.
• His scholarly concerns focus on the way that the very questions of representation and mediation that preoccupy us today have manifested themselves historically across western culture.
• The question of the real existence of contemporary, modern matriarchies led Rentmeister from 1980 to the current to preoccupy with cultural anthropological research findings.

• "Success" is Amis's first statement of the doppelganger theme that would also preoccupy the novels "Money", "London Fields", and, especially, 1995's "The Information".
• It is the personally-annotated diary of Carter's presidency, and contains feedback on his relationships with allies and enemies, as well as commentary on his observed impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world.
• The Congress program focuses on the three substantial challenges that currently preoccupy cancer medicine: enhancing interdisciplinarity, rapid integration and financing of innovations, and increasing individualization of therapy decisions after molecular-genetic diagnostics.
• These misfortunes would eventually preoccupy Samuel Swan McClelland's diary, which from 1811 until its last entries in 1827, quickly became a disaster narrative.
• The phrase [...] is variously translated: "Let us give our heart to" (Clarke); "Let us preoccupy ourselves with" (Bashiri); "Let us offer our devotion to" (Ingenito); and others are possible.