dominant interest

The prevention of future attacks remains our dominant interest, if not our only compelling one there.

No doubt variety of opinion existed among them; but if they are to be judged by what seemed their dominant interest, they were revolutionaries and nothing else.

You quote passage after passage from the inspired volume, but it seems like the pattering of rain upon the window: the reason is at work, the will is dominant, interest is at stake, human opinions bear sway, God's truth is practically, if not in so many words, set aside.

Thus these large investors could gain a dominant interest in smaller firms, a situation many corporate managers want to avoid.

When he acquired a dominant interest last June in the venerable firm of Price Bros.,