Sentence examples for A major preoccupation from inspiring English sources

A major preoccupation was the question of who could be legally enslaved, which together with other factors led to the construction of new ideas about ethnicity, race, gender, and caste long before colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade.

A major preoccupation of statistics is ensuring that a particular statistic is not just exploiting this tendency.

A major preoccupation of our reconstruction methodology was to avoid the non-uniqueness of optimal solutions, a problem endemic to one-step reconstructions based even partly on poorly supported adjacencies.

Family is a major preoccupation.

Insects appeared to be a major preoccupation.

Mozart remains a major preoccupation.

Money, or lack of it, is a major preoccupation.

Trying to read the President's mind on S.D.I. is a major preoccupation in Washington.

Financing the increasingly expensive and unsuccessful war with France was a major preoccupation.

Determining whether an offender poses a manageable risk is a major preoccupation in criminal justice circles.

A rising currency also stems inflation — a major preoccupation of the Fed before the latest crisis.