Instead, Germany had to be concerned first with feeding its own people.

Witness protection is an issue of paramount concern to the Court.

The Team's concern is more than theoretical.

But while official attention to rural poverty is music to the ears of the poor, experience shows that such promises are usually inadequate. Wen's predecessor, Zhu Ronji, also said that his biggest headache was how to reduce the rural tax burden and increase peasant income.

But that is not the most immediate concern.

Ensuring systemic financial stability is the order of the day.

Of particular concern, therefore, is the need for poverty reduction.

Instead, the Kremlin is preoccupied with the profitability and value of the state dominated companies that it controls.

Unemployment will remain a major headache and preoccupation for policymakers.

Self assertion became the watchword of German foreign policy.

The preoccupation of the UN founders was with state security.

But should it have become the primary preoccupation of the World Trade Organization?

The first concern relates to triggering an endless electoral process, one lacking a limit on the number of rounds of balloting in the General Assembly to select the States that would enjoy the privilege of occupying the proposed new permanent seats.

During major international incidents or crises, America has seldom voted against an incumbent president.

Hence, big investments in energy services are the order of the day throughout the developing world.

But now its concern is more closely tied to regional politics than to the Kurdish issue.

But trade will probably not be the main worry for China s international relations.

49. Australia appreciates that the main concern of the Working Group was to identify sources of applicable law.

Above all, the EU requires cooperation.

It is and would be wrong to make opposition to terrorism the centerpiece of what responsible governments do in the world.

The White House s current occupant is a more formidable obstacle to reform, but change is coming.

A YouTube video of an armed robbery of a mobile phone shop in Egypt is making the rounds online.

State policies have not yet been sufficiently able to address this concern at the national or regional level.

The universality and integrity of the Rome Statute must be the permanent concern of those who helped to establish the Court.

Although the campaign has been welcomed by a huge number of Iranian activists, some have also criticized it. Some believe the mandatory hijab should not be the primary political concern of Iranian women, and yet others have problems with the term stealthy .

But European priorities have to be the primary concern in this crisis even at the price of losing office.

We are obviously sailing toward the rocks, and the whole developed world should be concerned.

The main concern was not attracting readers, listeners, and viewers, but avoiding political mistakes.

Cancer remained the main concern among radiation induced health effects, although many factors entered into the disease.

The General Counsel of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) thus voiced this concern in a letter to the Secretary of the Commission

(f) The potential incumbent of the post being proposed for reclassification has encumbered that post for at least three years

Europe is backtracking on financial reform issues its policymakers are too preoccupied with holding the eurozone together.

My discontent is with the quality of a civilization in which the production and consumption of unnecessary goods has become most people s main occupation.

The main concern of the EDB was and still is to attract foreign (preferably global) firms to invest in Singapore.

With a global recession a near certainty, deflation rather than inflation will become the main concern for policymakers.

COPENHAGEN So far, Europe s leaders seem to be mostly preoccupied with finding national answers to the global economic crisis.

He was confident that UNOTIL would find the right approach to capacity building, which was his country's main preoccupation.

Currently, Russia s greatest economic concern is growing inflationary pressure, driven especially by food prices.

The third concern I would like to address is that reform based on the group of four proposal will not be ratified by all of the five permanent members.

The work of the United Nations development agencies and funds has been a concern for the Special Rapporteur since the beginning of her mandate.

Mindful of the need for addressing, within the United Nations framework and through international cooperation, this rising concern for international security,

Back in Beijing, the chief preoccupation is to safeguard 11 GDP growth while assuaging Western governments.

How to prevent unnecessary military measures and countermeasures is the most immediate concern for the region s governments.

Mexico expressed this concern during the 2001 United Nations Conference on the illicit trade in small arms.

The Committee notes that sexual exploitation of children should be a particular and growing concern for the State party, given its heavy reliance on commercial tourism.