"It's clear that this was a major preoccupation for Gorbachev," one said.

He agreed that taxes represented a major preoccupation of voters.

All through this, the major preoccupation of the fleet had been defensive.

But it was prostitution which continued to be the major preoccupation for purity workers at a local level.

IT sometimes seems as if a major preoccupation of old media is new media.

Suicide is, in fact, a major preoccupation of the book.

In general, the search for a post-Taliban administration has become a major preoccupation.

But overall the show masks the extent to which the war had become a major public and political preoccupation by 1968.

The military government's major preoccupation was planning an economic recovery.

In the 1990s the latter became a major preoccupation of the center.