Sentence examples similar to a leading preoccupation from inspiring English sources

In spite of the President's efforts to fasten voters' attention on foreign affairs, it became evident throughout the night that the state of the economy was the country's leading preoccupation.

Despite the President's efforts to fasten voters' attention on foreign affairs, it became evident throughout the night that the state of the economy was the country's leading preoccupation.

But it had serious defects, which bedeviled administration in Bengal and made India (despite British preoccupation with the American Revolution) a leading subject of controversy over the next 20 years.

It's a leading question.

A leading economic index declines.

Now a leading banking family.

He's a leading man.

She is a leading lady.

These latter two developments made suicide prevention a bureaucratic and medical preoccupation, leading to a wave of institutionalization for suicidal persons.

There is growing support for content-specificity, with depression being associated particularly with a focus on themes of loss and failure and anxiety leading to a preoccupation with psychological or physical threat (e.g. Clark, Beck, & Stewart, 1990; Ingram, Kendall, Smith, Donnell & Ronan, 1987; for a review see Beck, 2005).

An undercurrent in Lamartine's poetry is the preoccupation with politics; during the 1848 revolution he took a leading role in the provisional government.