Sentence examples for preoccupation became from inspiring English sources

Although the field originally focused on the varying degrees of victim blameworthiness, by the 1970s this preoccupation became overshadowed by studies intended to prevent victimization, to improve the way complainants are handled by the police and courts, and to speed recovery.

When the Rim fire named for the Rim of the World Vista off Highway 120, near where a hunter's illegal campfire burned out of control in August—broke out in one of the most beautiful places on earth, the preoccupation became something like an obsession.

In his retirement, Ron continued to work on selected book designs, but his main preoccupations became his garden and family.

Patterns of biases, sensitivities, and preoccupations become strikingly apparent.

When a body image preoccupation has become an obsession, the lure of a quick fix can outrun any appeal to reason.

Once he found it, though, it became a preoccupation.

The Musharraf visit soon became a preoccupation in both countries.

Refined taste became a preoccupation of the masses.

Then from 1965 this became a preoccupation of writers - not always in an acceptable form.

As Flanigan pursued a career in psychology, the question of how to help those who were torn between their religious orientation and their sexual orientation became a preoccupation.

The book was so successful that Lamartine attempted to extend it two years later with his Nouvelles méditations poétiques and his Mort de Socrates, in which his preoccupation with metaphysics first became evident.