Collocations with concern

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foremost concern
Above all, before, during, and after the war he acted with foremost concern to preserve a political order centered on the throne (the kokutai).
genuine concern
In those interviews, police officers are shown to present a caring attitude and a genuine concern about the comfort of a child being interviewed.
grave concern
There has been grave concern for many years about the quality of care that can be provided within these contexts.
growing concern
Growing concern over environmental degradation has lead to increasingly stringent regulations to control actions that harm the environment, both at the national and international levels.
humanitarian concern
And the same point may also apply to the virtue of (deep) humane or humanitarian concern for the well-being of fellow humans (or animals) generally.
immediate concern
There is little or no immediate concern about creating moral consensus (except on the point that a certain compromise is morally acceptable).
justifiable concern
After all, he had justifiable concern that his fundamental support constituency could be threatened by any wholesale democratic reforms that a future administration might pursue.
justified concern
We should not be worrying about things like that, but only about things where there is justified concern that they may contaminate the soil.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
key concern
This paper reflects a key concern for teacher trainers: how can primary language teachers promote the development of intercultural awareness among their pupils?
legitimate concern
Two considerations may help to blunt any such criticism even if they do not remove all legitimate concern.
long-standing concern
What is important is the way that one comes to hold projects and values and this is a long-standing concern of liberalism.
main concern
Apparently, as earlier indicated, the main concern in the decision-making process is keeping afloat regional administrative machinery by covering recurrent expenditure, especially salary costs.
major concern
The safety of poliovaccines is a major concern and, ultimately, can be tested only by clinical usage.
methodological concern
Finally, as a methodological concern, issues regarding the handling of missing data for student academic outcomes have not been adequately addressed in the educational literature.
moral concern
How could this be relevant to justified moral concern for others?
mutual concern
It is also important that local strategies, bringing together different departments to discuss ageing as a mutual concern, are mirrored at inter-governmental office level.
ongoing concern
In fact, the limited supply of any haemangioma tissue is an ongoing concern.
overarching concern
Individual chapters are organized in two parts: a charting of the period in question, followed by play analysis, with formations and constructions of whiteness as the overarching concern and focus.
overriding concern
Our decision to focus on 6-month prevalence was dictated by an overriding concern about the uncertain reliability of self-report for a far longer timeframe.
paramount concern
The main implication is that the paramount concern of opinion survey methodology, obtaining a random sample, is much less important in conducting expert surveys.
parental concern
Because children were enrolled prior to onset of symptoms, the sample was based on risk for developing symptoms rather than parental concern about symptoms.
particular concern
For present purposes, differences in two dimensions are of particular concern.
practical concern
The practical concern that initiated this study is whether such systems are susceptible to significant improvement of their biological productivity.
pressing concern
For them, of much more pressing concern was the imminent subsistence crisis compounded by increasing and seemingly arbitrary fiscal demands on their already overstretched resources.
primary concern
Elite appeals to the small electoral impact of the industrial working class could not have been the primary concern.
principal concern
It is not surprising that their principal concern was with the high proportion of destitute pilgrims.
serious concern
Although some women experienced uncomfortable skin reactions this did not represent serious concern for the majority.
shared concern
But at the heart of these two perspectives is a shared concern about welfare dependency.
societal concern
Over the past few decades there has been a rise in societal concern about literacy development throughout the world.
sole concern
He is a responsible trade union official and a man whose sole concern is defending the interests of his members.
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