The phrase "a gesture of concern" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an action or expression that shows care or worry for someone else's well-being.
Example: "She sent flowers as a gesture of concern after hearing about his illness."
Alternatives: "an expression of worry" or "a sign of care."
In a subsequent statement, Wheaton College President Dr. Philip Ryken said, "The College has no stated position on the wearing of headscarves as a gesture of care and concern for those in Muslim or other religious communities that may face discrimination or persecution".
Philip G. Ryken, the president of Wheaton College, emphasized that it was Professor Hawkins's words, not her wearing the headscarf, that was the reason for her being placed on leave, as Wheaton had "no stated position on the wearing of head scarves as a gesture of care and concern for those in Muslim or other religious communities that may face discrimination or persecution".
They were also given a single $500 travel voucher "as a gesture of our concern" over their treatment in India.
The movement encompasses the territory of death salons and death cafés — events where people gather to share in contemplating mortality — and of natural or green burials, in which the unembalmed dead are laid to rest in biodegradable coffins, or with no coffin at all, in a gesture of environmental concern and as an avowal that the human body, like any other meat, is subject to rot.
His most notable gesture of concern — a melodramatic call last month to suspend his campaign and postpone the first Presidential debate until the government bailout plan was ready — soon revealed itself as an empty diversionary tactic.
It said the laws were counter to the state's commitment to the recommendations of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody and that the only "genuinely acceptable option" was "they should be repealed in view of their manifest faults and in a gesture of commitment to Indigenous concerns".
Its statements of concern represent a gesture of hypocrisy on this matter.
We always took this beautiful gesture of concern in the spirit it was given and were, in fact, deeply appreciative of these questions.
