Collocations withconcern
These are words often used in combination withconcern.
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abiding concern
The results inevitably reflected the lack of money available and the abiding concern with the optimization of manpower and materials.
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aesthetic concern
Needless to say, there are other ways in which the divine can be represented, independently of any affective or aesthetic concern.
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budgetary concern
While the budgetary concerns continue to influence policy changes, inflation becomes a significant factor in pension adjustments.
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cause concern
The inflationary expectations of yet another group had begun to cause concern.
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central concern
The relationship between signed and spoken languages is a central concern here.
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chief concern
To this end, their chief concern was to safeguard access both to the mechanisms of traditional solidarity and to the means and factors of production.
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considerable concern
It is hard to avoid the conclusion, however, that these reports would have generated considerable concern in the minds of many of their readers.
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continuing concern
There is continuing concern about the burden of illness and disability amongst survivors in this vulnerable group.
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deep concern
The projects are characterised by a deep concern with indigenous craft techniques and materials.
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domestic concern
This visa requirement must be the domestic concern of the visa-issuing authority.
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ecological concern
But what has happened with this aesthetic, ecological concern is that it has been elevated to the status of a moral absolute.
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empathic concern
Deficiencies in empathic concern may be a major factor in the intergenerational transmission of mental illness, as impaired children become ineffective parents.
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environmental concern
Some have proposed that sustainability encompasses food security, environmental concern and economic equity21.
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ethical concern
One ethical concern is that the treatment can be carr ied out without the consent of the patient.
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feminist concern
This agenda stems from a feminist concern with challenging the privileged and gendered notion of the independent artist.
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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).
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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.
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grave concern
There has been grave concern for many years about the quality of care that can be provided within these contexts.
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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.
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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.
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immediate concern
There is little or no immediate concern about creating moral consensus (except on the point that a certain compromise is morally acceptable).
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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.
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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.
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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?
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legitimate concern
Two considerations may help to blunt any such criticism even if they do not remove all legitimate concern.
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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.
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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.
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major concern
The safety of poliovaccines is a major concern and, ultimately, can be tested only by clinical usage.
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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.
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moral concern
How could this be relevant to justified moral concern for others?
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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.
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ongoing concern
In fact, the limited supply of any haemangioma tissue is an ongoing concern.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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particular concern
For present purposes, differences in two dimensions are of particular concern.
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practical concern
The practical concern that initiated this study is whether such systems are susceptible to significant improvement of their biological productivity.
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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.
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primary concern
Elite appeals to the small electoral impact of the industrial working class could not have been the primary concern.
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principal concern
It is not surprising that their principal concern was with the high proportion of destitute pilgrims.
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serious concern
Although some women experienced uncomfortable skin reactions this did not represent serious concern for the majority.
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shared concern
But at the heart of these two perspectives is a shared concern about welfare dependency.
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societal concern
Over the past few decades there has been a rise in societal concern about literacy development throughout the world.
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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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thematic concern
This is achieved via the novel's formal narrative structure as well as its thematic concerns.
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underlying concern
This is not to deny the legitimacy of the policy's underlying concern to increase the number of lives saved by liver transplants.
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urgent concern
A health service without humanity or without an urgent concern for its own improvement is a contradiction in terms.
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utmost concern
Secondly, service charges, especially to council tenants, are a matter of the utmost concern.
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widespread concern
The men's rapid deterioration was attracting widespread concern in much the same way colliery explosions had in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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