"principal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Gardening is only the principal preoccupation, or maybe the organizing principle, of her life.
- I have never written a book principally for money," she said, "and I don't think it ought to be a writer's principal preoccupation.
- For the MTG, the principal preoccupation is the devaluation of the tradition, which should be above the financial values, or it would lose its finality.
- In the months that followed, feeding and hiding Mikhail became her principal preoccupation, her silent protest against the dictator whose hospitality she enjoyed.
- "The Government's principal preoccupation was to get workers to make greater contributions to their pensions, and it didn't seem too worried about concessions made to achieve this," he said.
- An opinion survey last year by the independent monthly Greek Opinion said 34 percent of respondents listed their principal preoccupation as watching television or movies.
- The thought of the Russians forming an alliance against him, in league with Wu Sangui, had been among his principal preoccupations for some time.
- "One of their principal preoccupations," said Mr. Metcalfe, "is the extreme poverty of the country."
- The citizens of Montreal had generously subscribed towards the building of a college, his principal preoccupation.
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