preoccupy

We realize that there are much more prominent issues that are preoccupying the minds of Council members.
Nous comprenons que bien d'autres questions de première importance préoccupent les membres du Conseil.
These results, it is written, are preoccupying in the sense that they leave the same countries on this side of the decisive threshold from which economic and social benefits can clearly be realized, which can be translated also into less efficiency in public spending on education.
Ces résultats, écrit-on, sont préoccupants dans la mesure où ils laissent ces mêmes pays en deçà du seuil décisif à partir duquel les bénéfices économiques et sociaux peuvent pleinement se réaliser, ce qui se traduit aussi par une moindre efficacité de la dépense publique d'éducation.
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