Sentence examples for principal preoccupation from inspiring English sources

The era of great conquests had ended, and, on the face of it, Louis's principal preoccupation was his relationship with the peoples to the north.

In the months that followed, feeding and hiding Mikhail became her principal preoccupation, her silent protest against the dictator whose hospitality she enjoyed.

One could scarcely expect the subject of gay marriage to be the principal preoccupation of the Essex town's chilly shoppers, so it was perhaps notable that very few, when asked, declined to offer a view.

And if the urgency of a subject were indeed a criterion of its seriousness, then, considering what climate change actually portends for the future of the Earth, it should surely follow that this would be the principal preoccupation of writers the world over – and this, I think, is very far from being the case.

STEVE LOPEZ walks into the lobby of The Los Angeles Times last fall and mentions that Nathaniel Ayers, the formerly homeless musician and schizophrenic who is the principal preoccupation of "The Soloist," is in a music room in the basement of the building.

"America's economic system is where it is today because gambling became the financial sector's principal preoccupation.

Since the nineteen-sixties, the constructed nature of the art experience has been one of advanced art's principal preoccupations.

One of the principal preoccupations of social scientists at this time was the recording of "vanishing" indigenous cultures.

There is no hint of the principal preoccupations of the summer of 1974 in New York, which were the rise in the price of gasoline and the collapse of Wall Street.

Trade growth, GDP, global integration were among the principal preoccupations of state houses and board rooms, interspersed with the occasional conflict or political setback.

Mr Thackara's principal artistic preoccupation is a moral one.