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His chief preoccupation, therefore, was to keep himself tranquil, avoiding all emotional storms.
2
The Duchessa's chief preoccupation and anxiety concerned her son's strength to bear the journey.
3
To abolish, prohibit, banish, and remove, at one swoop, the chief preoccupation of mankind!
4
Man's chief preoccupation then had been to survive, not to preserve material for historical research.
5
The chief preoccupation for many Muslims in the city is what comes next for the HYV.
6
Her chief preoccupation seemed to have been to get rid of him as soon as possible.
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Her chief preoccupation was not being taken unawares.
8
Orsino was aware that his chief preoccupation was identical with that which absorbed his mother's thoughts.
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Food was quite properly the chief preoccupation.
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But the future is our chief preoccupation.
11
His chief preoccupation was to get rid of the detective and his men as quickly as possible.
12
But the physical sciences and the arts they nourished had ceased to be the chief preoccupation of the race.
13
The chief preoccupation of middle-class Americans is not the dream of getting ahead, it is the fear of falling behind.
14
To seize the initiative was his chief preoccupation, and in this case it did not seem difficult to do so.
15
His chief preoccupation, however, became the composition of short stories and novels, and besides these he also wrote some plays and poetry.
16
The incident of this afternoon may have caused you to think that what is vulgarly called booze is the chief preoccupation of our society.
