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Значения термина chief preoccupation на английском

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His chief preoccupation, therefore, was to keep himself tranquil, avoiding all emotional storms.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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The Duchessa's chief preoccupation and anxiety concerned her son's strength to bear the journey.
Taquisara
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To abolish, prohibit, banish, and remove, at one swoop, the chief preoccupation of mankind!
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
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Man's chief preoccupation then had been to survive, not to preserve material for historical research.
The End of Man?
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The chief preoccupation for many Muslims in the city is what comes next for the HYV.
The Guardian
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Her chief preoccupation seemed to have been to get rid of him as soon as possible.
Don Orsino
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Her chief preoccupation was not being taken unawares.
Beyond
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Orsino was aware that his chief preoccupation was identical with that which absorbed his mother's thoughts.
Don Orsino
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Food was quite properly the chief preoccupation.
The Old Wives' Tale
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But the future is our chief preoccupation.
The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War
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His chief preoccupation was to get rid of the detective and his men as quickly as possible.
The Heart of Rome: A Tale of the "Lost Water"
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But the physical sciences and the arts they nourished had ceased to be the chief preoccupation of the race.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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The chief preoccupation of middle-class Americans is not the dream of getting ahead, it is the fear of falling behind.
Reuters
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To seize the initiative was his chief preoccupation, and in this case it did not seem difficult to do so.
Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War
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His chief preoccupation, however, became the composition of short stories and novels, and besides these he also wrote some plays and poetry.
Seven Icelandic Short Stories
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The incident of this afternoon may have caused you to think that what is vulgarly called booze is the chief preoccupation of our society.
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
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