How to Use "preoccupation" with Example Sentences

1. One early preoccupation was finding a new home .
2. Today , the middle east has replaced the cold war as america 's primary foreign-policy preoccupation .
3. For china 's strategic planners , securing sea lanes against hostile powers has become perhaps the chief preoccupation .
4. This government is quietly moving from trying to revive regions ( labour 's preoccupation ) to boosting cities and their hinterlands .
5. Ensuring flows of the natural resources required to feed china 's industrial-development machine has become a major preoccupation for the government .