Sentence examples for a regional concern from inspiring English sources

"In the past few years, Turkey has gone from a country that's been considered a regional hope to a country that's now considered a regional concern," she said.

They quickly enjoyed success, winning the local state championship within five years of their founding, but remained a regional concern until recently, when their ascent through the divisions captured the imagination of Brazilians.

Commissioner Norman Moleboge, the head of the Botswana police force, said that while South Africa's crime problems were enormous compared with Botswana's, they had to be treated as a regional concern that, if left unchecked, would eventually undermine even the most stable of southern Africa's countries.

Last Wednesday, a group of Democratic state lawmakers from Northern Virginia and Richmond joined with others from the southwestern part of the state to call on Gov. Ralph Northam (D) to slow both projects, a sign that the issue is expanding beyond a regional concern.

Beijing believes the South China Sea issue is only a regional concern and therefore Washington should not get involved.

At the epicenter of this world stands Kellogg Chan, F. Chow Chan's tall, broad-shouldered, cigar-smoking, 55-year-old son who oversaw East-West's growth from an S & L with $200 million in assets to a regional concern with $1.3 billion in assets.

Until Mrs. Clinton made her remarks, the dispute over the South China Sea islands had remained a largely regional concern.

Where Slovenia ends and Croatia begins might appear to be an arcane regional concern.

Developing mobile technologies have also changed, from being a national or regional concern, to becoming a very complex task undertaken by global standards developing organizations such as the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).

The development of perennial cultivars (CVs) of upland rice would give farmers a new tool to reduce soil erosion from hilly fields, thereby mitigating a problem of regional concern in Southeast Asia.

Lewis joined the company in 1969 when it was a sleepy Southeast regional concern known as North Carolina National Bank.