Sentences with phrase «of real concern for»

«What is of real concern for the future is that many forecasters are expecting the jobless figures to soar during 2012, peaking in 2013.

We will deal wisely with our problems only if we seek the well - being of the other creatures out of real concern for them.

This causes problems of real concern for unwanted children.

My net worth can fluctuate up or down depending on how the markets are doing but this is of no real concern for me.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Over time, as people became more and more aware of the effects commonly used products can have on the environment, plastic - happy clients who once cared mostly for cost and convenience morphed into savvy customers with real concerns about the impact polyethylene and other petroleum - based products have on the ecosystem.

Although it's a big legal issue — and I am fascinated that no one that I know of has brought suits against the computer industry for knowingly selling defective products — my real concern is geopolitical.

«This quarter's findings reveal strong optimism about future prospects for the industry,» said Jennifer Scanlon, president and chief executive officer of USG Corporation, «and also highlight a real need to address ongoing concerns about skilled labor shortages and the impact it has on building in the U.S..»

The concerns got real enough for a U.S. national security review to thwart Li's bid to buy part of Global Crossing Ltd., which operated a fixed - line communications network in North America, in 2003.

And as for the high - end real estate market, well, most of those Microsoft millionaires you hear about may be rich only on paper, but as far as lenders are concerned, stock options make dandy collateral.

Lattice Semiconductor Corp. said in a filing Friday it will seek Trump's approval for its proposed $ 1.3 billion sale to Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, gambling that the former real estate dealmaker will approve the tie - up against the advice of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which scrutinizes foreign deals for national security concerns.

The idea for the device, called SymPulse, arose from concerns about the very real problem of empathy deficits in health care settings.

«It acknowledges that you are self - aware and have weaknesses, like all of us, but none that are any real concern because they don't really matter for the job,» he explains.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

But recent weeks have marked a heightened level of concern that the real challenges for the massive fixed income market are closer than any time since the financial crisis.

I do not see a case for a further rate increase on current facts and remain very concerned that macroeconomic policy has inadequately internalized all the aspects of large declines in the neutral real rate and secular stagnation risks.

When banks and startups better understand the culture and pragmatic concerns of the other, we'll see a higher percentage of courtships result in real collaboration, bringing products and services to market that will ultimately result in better user experiences for bank customers.

-- FOMC minutes show uncertainty and concern about markets are affecting officials» decision - making — Officials were cautious when evaluating market conditions and the «damaging effects on the economy» — Worry about «potential buildup of financial imbalances» and a sharp reversal in asset prices» — Members seem oblivious to impact of inflation on households and savings — Physical gold and silver remain the only assets for real diversification and safety

Prior to joining BCG, Mr. Braz was the Director of Legal Services for Africa Israel, USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Africa Israel Investments, where he advised the company on all legal matters concerning the company's U.S. real estate holdings.

The Vietnam real estate market has slowed recently, partly due to a lack of legal framework concerning the transfer of unfinished projects, which caused problems for developers as well as sellers and buyers.

«With stock markets wobbling worldwide, a plan B for capital security is of real concern.

Whether you need one machine assessed or your entire production floor, we believe in providing real world solutions for all of your machine safety concerns.

We remain cautious and selective in Japan, where our main concern is that reform could stop shy of the real structural changes needed for corporate Japan to gain competitiveness, improve profitability, and overcome the country's daunting debt and demographic challenges.

This raises serious concerns about the role and responsibility of companies working for political campaigns in Kenya's volatile political climate, particularly considering The Real Raila's incendiary claims include that rival opposition candidate Raila Odinga's administration would «remove whole tribes», for example.

We would still need major entitlement reform and related health care reforms (among a whole lot else), but the above policies would give Republicans something real to say about the concerns of many Americans who spent the election just hearing about how the Republicans plan to cut marginal tax rates for high earners.

I will be praying for Kerry Egan, that she is saved, because with such a lack of concern for someones eternal soul I would question her salvation ever being real, but if she is saved, then she will have to stand before a Holy God one day at the judgement seat of Christ and give an account of what she has done for Him, I pray that she may yet grab this opportunity she has to change the course of so many souls, before its too late!

Church leader and theologian Steve Holmes wrote: «I agree profoundly with Steve in his concern that our pastoral practice in this area has often been appalling, and needs to change... his diagnosis of a real and urgent problem is spot on... [He] names a pastoral scandal that we have swept under the carpet for too long.»

So just as I grew irritated with the pro-life movement for its inconsistency and simplistic solutions, I grew irritated with the pro-choice movement for its callousness and disinterest in discussing the very real ethical concerns surrounding the termination of a pregnancy.

Our theological concern leads now to the proposal that all interpretation of the self - image and its transformation is incomplete, and in a sense misleading, unless we recognize the dimension of the search for the real world.

Pastors need special sensitivity about the sign value of every aspect of the rites, not as a fussy rubrical matter, but as genuine pastoral concern that people better perceive and express what is ultimately real for them.

The real reason for concern is the fact that White's brand of Christianity is a manifestation of the psyche of modern America in a religious idiom, and thoroughly continuous with the last eight years.

Though two speak of «freedom of choice» and a few give no real theological rationale for their position, virtually all the statements of this type are concerned not with human freedom or women's rights, but with articulating solid theological and philosophical reasons for the position they take.

That's why, Pierre says, he finds more real humanity in the religious person, the person for whom human or relational bonds are of real concern all the way down — or all the way up.

Your real concern should be about your teeth not getting the shape of Obamas big toe from sucking so dramatically for any sign of his wand waving over your head with an atta - boy!!

For a Biblical concept of justice has been the real concern of a few of these writers.58 Evidence is of course mixed, but the overwhelming thrust of Scripture's discussion of «social justice» suggests the following Biblical definition: «to each according to his or her needs» Rather than act on the basis of society's most common definitions of «social justice» those of merit or equality - the Christian seeking a Biblically derived social ethic must respond, first and foremost, on the basis of need.

1) Copenhagen demonstrated that global governance has overreached itself; 2) The crisis provokes a shift away from idealistic globalism, back to pragmatic concerns; 3) «Global consensus» established by «experts» is not and has never been genuine; 4) The institutions of global governance prove unable to resolve their identity crisis and to reform themselves; they are fragmented; 5) Global governance pays the bill for not taking into account non-western cultures and civilisations; 6) Displaying an incapacity to provide real leadership, produce a vision for the world, new ideas / ideologies, global governance opts for a survival approach.

When someone is more concerned about their own reward after they die than they are about the quality of this real life for their fellow humans, one can only conclude that they are utterly selfish.

My concern with Douthat's analysis is that it leaves no room for a «merely Catholic» center — for the possibility that younger generations of Catholics might finally get beyond the culture wars to a real Catholic consensus on orthodoxy, one that would still allow for political disagreement on less than fundamental matters.

Shame convinces us to diminish the real concerns of others and ostracize them for thinking or acting differently.

Fehr's contributions are real enough, but for Christians, and anyone who worries about the ontological, moral and epistemological dimensions of economic activity, his gaps are probably more concerning than his accomplishments.

Nicholas Wolterstorff's recent case for same - sex marriage, delivered as a lecture at Neland Avenue Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids in mid-October, bears many of the virtues we've come to count on from the Yale professor emeritus of philosophical theology: lucidity, an intuitive and easy - to - follow structure, a winsome recourse to down - to - earth illustrations, a light touch, and an obvious personal concern for real, suffering Christians.

At the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century, for example, there was no real theological deepening of the notion of revelation because the main concern was with safeguarding the deposit of faith that the council fathers held to have been passed down in Church tradition under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Even more unusual, most of this money is not in bonds or stock in other peoples» companies but is invested directly in church - owned, for - profit concerns, the largest of which are in agribusiness, media, insurance, travel and real estate.

He is the sensualist for whom the flesh becomes God, or the moral idealist for whom «love of mankind» is drained of all emotion and there is neither concern nor pity for real human beings.

Constructive criticism is surely good, and if it is offered in a spirit of real charity the individual concerned will be able to discern the best forum for airing it.

And today Alise warns against dismissing the concerns of Chick - fil - A protestors as silly or unimportant, reminding us that «for a lot of people, this is real injustice.»

If Isaiah's Messianism has an eschatological flavor, that is, if it anticipates a growing concern in subsequent centuries with the «last things,» we may remark that this is, for Isaiah, the goal of history; that Isaiah may indeed be the father of Jewish and Christian eschatology; but that for Isaiah it is a «natural» and consistent development of a very real covenant history.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

All of their concern is on the unborn — who can not even feel or think, and without a drop of real caring for those already in the world.

Scientists sometimes need to be concerned with whether aggregates (e.g., species of plantsl) or components (e.g., quarks2) are «real», but such questions are not generally regarded as having great importance for science.