Especially in the case of Chinese, fears of divided national loyalties and fifth columns have been strong.

That concern remains no less valid today.

And there is more than a grain of truth to these concerns.

Those fears are, for the most part, overblown.

Concerns were raised about these changes in society.

These worries are overblown.

These new worries are raising alarm bells in China.

There seemed to be some basis for this scare.

The Bali Action Plan addresses all three concerns.

There is no real way to allay these concerns quickly.

But these fears are not well founded.

It actually takes these concerns seriously.

Spain and Cyprus with their worries over secessionist minded regions, are worried by any possible precedent.

Easing those fears is big concern in the US these days.

These concerns turned out to have been overstated.

Tepid US and global growth forecasts are reinforcing these fears.

The term was coined in the 1980s and its popularity during the 1990s was both as a consequence of its links to trends in thinking about wider modernity, and also to its links to popular discourse, in particular the growing environmental concerns during the period.

These anxieties have too often been ignored.

Ghanaians are not alone in voicing such concerns.

Such concerns are understandable but manifestly exaggerated.

Americans and Chinese must avoid such exaggerated fears.

The main concern is inflation, which the government has covered up and contained by precarious price agreements that will not last very long once Cristina takes over.

They say that fears of running out of resources, notably food and energy, have been with us for 200 years, and we never succumbed.

But they stem largely from misplaced generalizations.

But they are not expressed in the same way in every country.

I believe that these fears are exaggerated, even misplaced.

The extensive Facebook privacy policy covers these concerns and much more.

The letter, written in the winter of 1497 8, mostly concerns the 1497 voyage.

But it is significant that Bush decided to voice this view during Pakistan s political transition.

As with China, these concerns are overblown.

Local governments and state owned enterprises do not necessarily have those concerns.

This concern about mass media is no mere elitist scorn for popular culture.

In relation to ethnic groups, these concerns are captured in Survival International's There You Go!

This isn't the unique case of Morocco.

China could help to lessen growing tensions by recognizing these concerns as reasonable.

The composition of South Africa s exports to China supports these concerns.

The genius of The Limits to Growth was to fuse these worries with fears of running out of stuff.

These concerns are valid, even more so given government s growing role in the economy.

Such fears are by no means confined to Europe s small countries.

The codicil to the summit communiqué was created to address these concerns.

These fears and resentments exist everywhere, now more than ever.

These traumas required responses very different from previous technological changes.

Then came the global financial crisis, and worries about them seemed to vanish.

The financial crisis and deepening recession have created many challenges. The euro zone s less competitive economies are tethered to monetary policy (interest rates) set by the ECB, but pursue diverse approaches to bank bailouts and fiscal stimulus.

These concerns are unwarranted, and discriminatory policies to restrict such investment are ill advised.