Sentence examples for Major preoccupation for from inspiring English sources

Assembling Muhammad's words has been a major preoccupation for scholars throughout the fourteen centuries since his death, resulting in an abundance of compilations.

Even after Revlon began to sell through department and drug stores, in 1937, the salon business remained its major preoccupation for some years.

In the 1980's, the productivity gap between American and Japanese factories, particularly auto factories, was a major preoccupation for politicians, corporate executives and investors alike.

Libya has become a major preoccupation for him, necessitating daily meetings, in which officials said he was being briefed on the targets for airstrikes and on diplomatic efforts to pry Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi from power.

For a president who has sought to refocus American foreign policy on Asia, it was a significant concession that the Middle East is likely to remain a major preoccupation for the rest of his term, if not that of his successor.

By Friday, Mr. Frumin had become a major preoccupation for Democrats and Republicans, as they tried to divine his views on whether Mr. Obama must sign a health bill into law before Democrats can use the filibuster-proof budgetary tactic known as reconciliation to make changes to it.

The administration's worries go beyond Lebanon itself, and help explain why it, and not the stalled Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, has been the major preoccupation of American foreign policy officials for the last few weeks.

The gap between the knowledge of what works and the widespread adoption of those practices has become a major preoccupation of researchers and a challenge for funders and policy makers.

The search for such a coalition has been a major preoccupation of the United States and its allies, and of the special United Nations representative for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, who returned yesterday from a fact-finding tour of the region.

(Demanding credit for everything has become a major preoccupation of Seinfeld's retirement, as he drinks coffee and drives cars. Take that Jonathan Swift!).

And for years, these phenomenally complex budgets were a major preoccupation of study-section reviewers, who might say something like: "This guy's asking for two secretaries; I have only a half-time secretary.