Meanings of main preoccupation in English

It only briefly distracted us from our main preoccupation of finding extra socks.

But theology was not the main preoccupation of the court.

But it was obvious that Russia was the main preoccupation.

However, observers say the economy remains the main preoccupation.

The vaulting of the cupola had now indeed become the main preoccupation of Michelangelo's life.

But his thoughts soon quit Annouchka and returned to the object of his main preoccupation.

Our main preoccupation is this-tosave our lives.

Jamaican society will not be transformed by people in Parliament whose main preoccupation is avoiding political suicide.

Now the main preoccupation is with information.

The Fascist beasts were Fascist beasts, but our main preoccupation was the Trotskyite heretics and Socialist schismatics.

Then, as now, the main preoccupation was controlling government borrowing through reductions in the public service pay and welfare bill.

But no matter in what direction they started, circuitously they always found their way into the field of main preoccupation.

The main preoccupation for farmers and growers is nutrient management rules setting targets on a catchment-by-catchment basis for limiting nitrogen leaching.

Pappy is the patriarch, a stern, though ultimately loving figure, whose main preoccupation is getting the cotton crop in on time.

We would begin as soon as I had finished with my arts degree, which was my main preoccupation for the moment.

So curious a thing is the human heart that her main preoccupation was with our mission, not with her own fate.