Sentence examples of "занимают" in Russian with translation "preoccupy"

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Они полагали, что смотрят за пределы тех краткосрочных интересов, которые обычно занимают политических лидеров. They thought they were looking beyond the short-term demands that usually preoccupy political leaders.
Но то, что обычно занимало их мысли, тоже было основано на желании знать. But what normally preoccupied them also involved yearning to know.
Сейчас меня занимает проблема, как можно при помощи физической химии приостановить процесс оглупления масс. I'm preoccupied now with the problem of how we can stop, with the help of physical chemistry, the process of masses getting stupider.
Трудно подумать о вопросе внешней политики, который так занимал бы и притягивал мировое мнение, как Палестинский вопрос. It is difficult to think of a foreign policy issue that preoccupies and polarizes world opinion as much as the Palestinian question.
Большинство людей редко о таком задумывалось, как и сегодня, только в маленьких перерывах между тем, что обычно занимало их мысли. Okay, so, most people only wondered that occasionally, like today, in breaks from whatever normally preoccupied them.
Этот вопрос занимает не только спекулянтов, которые следят за падением доллара, но и обычных бизнесменов, которые не уверены, какую валюту использовать при составлении счетов фактур на импорт или экспорт. That question preoccupies not only speculators tracking the dollar's decline, but ordinary businessmen who wonder what currency to use when invoicing imports or exports.
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