The phrase "as the preoccupation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a focus or concern that someone has regarding a particular subject or issue.
Example: "As the preoccupation of the committee shifted towards environmental sustainability, new policies were proposed."
Alternatives: "as the concern" or "as the focus".
The character of the king's rule changed as the preoccupation with war put an end to further reform of government and law.
Turks have also been rankled by what they see as the preoccupation of the United States and Europe with Mr. Erdogan's post-coup crackdown, rather than standing by Turkey for facing down the existential threat the coup represented.
Taking a very different approach to theism, Paul Moser has recently criticized what he refers to as the preoccupation in philosophy of religion with what he calls "spectator evidence for God," evidence that can be assessed without involving any interior change that would transform a person morally and religiously.
Abortion is not persuasively dismissed as the preoccupation of only the religious or the misguided.
The DSM-5 describes hypochondriasis as the "preoccupation with fears of having a serious medical illness based on misinterpretations of benign (or minor) bodily sensations". To a hypochondriac, a headache means a brain tumor, a quickened heartbeat means a heart attack, and a mole means melanoma.
In 2005 Muehlenkamp [ 10] also proposed that self-injurious behavior should be a separate clinical syndrome, emphasizing the absence of conscious suicidal intent, the inability to resist NSSI impulses, the negative affective/cognitive state prior to and the relief after NSSI, as well as the preoccupation with and repetitiveness of the behavior.
Theirs can come across as stilted and willed, less recognizable as the workings of memory than as the preoccupations of a peculiar social class.
And we should develop a permanent immunity to a fake and manipulative populism that casts upholding standards and defending decency as the preoccupations of rarefied social and intellectual circles.
He's longing for that moment when film, politics, and sex mutually reinforced one another as the preoccupations of youth, and set the stage for the large-scale student revolts of May , 1968
As well as the preoccupations inevitable in a man of his age - his health and loneliness following his wife's death - Lees-Milne's reports of the beauty of Mick Jagger and lunch with the Prince of Wales carry you through to the poignant end: "My handwriting is very shakey.
This assessment is the crude beginnings of Farber's critical style use of words and ideas of conflicting emotional resonance as well as the preoccupations that would guide Farber throughout his career overcoming junk writing through adroit camerawork, direction and acting; honesty in craftsmanship for the craft's sake rather than to win awards.
