Sentence examples for top preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Suicide bombings, assassinations, and military operations against entrenched terrorists remained the top preoccupation of Pakistan's government.

It was an overwhelming red-top preoccupation, and its events fell into the structures of narratology effortlessly.

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It captures the preoccupations of top scientists and offers a rare chance to discover big ideas before they hit the mainstream.

But in some respects his report reiterates the military top brass's traditional preoccupations, including the urge to master new technologies such as nuclear energy (to power submarines, not make bombs) and create a domestic arms industry, and a mild paranoia about Amazonia.Brazil's army occupies an ambiguous place in national life.

A former HR director of one of our top retailers tells me about the shocking preoccupation of directors with their own pay and bonuses, even as they cut pay and jobs of their workforce.

In addition, the tests, which have become the gatekeeper to many top-tier colleges, have spawned a nationwide preoccupation with test taking.

Security and stability topped the list because of Beijing's preoccupation more generally about maintaining stability in Western China.

Up top he is a mass of vulnerabilities and preoccupations.

What seems clear is that the interest of readers of The Economist is piqued not by the most newsy tales; the top ten is instead a study in revealed preferences.There is clearly a preoccupation, for example, with intelligence.

WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's selection of a former top Pentagon lawyer to head the Homeland Security Department suggests the agency will be stepping back from its preoccupation with immigration to focus more on protecting the nation from attack.