The school for populists seems to be its main preoccupation.
Its main preoccupation was the infiltration of the Labour party by Militant and other hard-left organisations.
But its main preoccupation, as the loose narrative winds through Russia's past, is the nation's continuing sense of unreality, caught between its own vastness and its dreams of emulating European culture.
But MoveOn's management team — led by Eli Pariser, a 25-year-old Internet whiz — runs a sophisticated political operation, and its main preoccupation, beyond ending the Iraq war, is to keep growing.
The Shaykh, though remaining formally caliph, was thus left free to return to his main preoccupations, teaching and writing.
In his retirement, Ron continued to work on selected book designs, but his main preoccupations became his garden and family.
Years later, the Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature (1978) said his main preoccupations were "exile, deprivation, death and contemporary Spain".
One of his main preoccupations, he said, was providing food for the thousands of monks who came to Yangon, Myanmar's main city, to join the protests.
Although Byzantium and the steppe remained his main preoccupations in external policy, Yaroslav maintained friendly relations with European rulers, with whom he established marital alliances for his progeny.
"That is his main preoccupation".
