Sentence examples for key preoccupation from inspiring English sources
Kinship is a key preoccupation.
Child-rearing is a key preoccupation of psychology, as well as other disciplines.
Contrary to expectations, the key preoccupation was not fragrance, effectiveness, or irritation but the staining of clothes.
"Slowing this emerging trend or reversing it will be a key preoccupation of western strategists in the coming decade".
That same month, Marks & Spencer announced it was to charge 5p for all its carrier bags, chiming in with the other key preoccupation of 2008: the environment.
Protecting this new life was a key preoccupation for women who had experienced pregnancy loss or had an identified risk of abnormality in a pregnancy.
How to ensure that responsible and responsive policy decisions are made by career administrators, and how to coordinate their work with the policies of politically elected or appointive officials, remain key preoccupations, especially in democratic states.
Where Herzog and his party have carved out a sharp difference with Netanyahu, however, is on social and economic issues, regarded as the key preoccupations of the Israeli electorate.
The tense mood in French society is seen as favourable: more than 230 people have been killed in Islamist terror attacks since January 2015; mass unemployment and economic stagnation hang over daily life; and parties on both the right and left have anxiously appropriated Le Pen's key preoccupations of immigration, national identity and the place of Islam in France.
It's unfortunate that Ten New Messages comes so soon after Bloc Party's Weekend in the City, with which it shares certain key preoccupations - the love-hate relationship that city-dwellers have with their surroundings, the fear of terrorism, the promise of violence - but the Rakes have a sharper eye and a better sense of humour.
It's crystal clear that jobs and the economy have emerged as the key preoccupations of American voters as they approach the November 2nd midterm Congressional elections.
