The phrase "dominating interest" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a primary or prevailing concern or focus in a particular context.
Example: "The dominating interest of the meeting was the budget allocation for the upcoming project."
Alternatives: "primary concern" or "overriding interest".
Now, just a year before the 2016 presidential elections and with the race for the Republican nomination dominating interest thanks to the entry of a man who espouses the power of money, activating citizens who normally don't participate in elections might hold the key to the outcome.
76. "Instruction … creates powerful and dominating interest in nature and in human nature, especially the latter; … instruction which, by the creation of an apperception organ, replaces sensualism by a sensibility to higher things" (Hayward 1907: 57).
Teeth are a transatlantic threesome who have a dominating interest in pizza and aliens and make the kind of noisy, abrasive, tuneful electronic music that would soundtrack the Battle Royale arcade game perfectly if anyone ever got round to making it.
Results: description of parent activities carried out together with the children throughout the week, during weekdays dominate interest clubs and hobby groups (often associated with preparation for school), staying out (walk, hike, playing on the playground) and reading (often before bedtime), on the weekend occur more frequently playing on the computer and watching TV.
Despite the wide and multifarious distribution of chitin in Metazoa, its role in shaping the fungal cell wall (Yarden and Yanofsky 1991; Bowman and Free 2006) and the consequent implications for host infection has dominated interest in this molecule (Bowman and Free 2006).
I write and drink -- of course, I do other things too, but those two, for a time, were dominate interests.
Labour has been dominating media interest in who will succeed Boris Johnson as London's mayor for the simple reason that no other party has yet set about choosing a candidate - at least, not so anyone can see.
Long before oil dominated western interest in the Middle East, these exotic goods lured English traders into the Ottoman empire.
People often complain that the national debate on higher education is unfairly dominated by interest in entry to these two universities.
The stage seems set for record-shattering spending wars, dominated by interest groups bent on influencing judicial decisions and by mud-slinging attack ads that were once limited to contested campaigns for executive or legislative offices.
In Cuba, ideological fervor dominated philosophical interest in logic and science at public centers in the 1950s and 1960s.
