They're concerned with defining individual cultures, revealing their facets, letting them shine.
Until the early 1940s geochemistry was primarily concerned with defining elemental abundances in minerals and rocks.
If most people are not concerned with defining the essence of Christianity, in practice they must come to terms with what the word essence implies.
In this time in particular, the term Jewish philosophy applied especially to works that were primarily concerned with defining Judaism and offering a justification of its existence.
Much of the memo is concerned with defining torture down: if the pain inflicted on a prisoner is less than the pain that accompanies "serious physical injury, such as organ failure," it's not torture.
The Australian expat, he argues, "loots the world for cultural references," and "if he can write like Hughes, he may combine these into a macaronic, coruscating prose that would be as precious as a cento or an Anacreontic odelette if it were not so robust, vivid and clearly concerned with defining the subject, rather than just displaying his erudition".
Today, the electronic system design community is mainly concerned with defining efficient System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design methodologies in order to benefit from the high integration capabilities of current application-specific integrated circuit and field-programmable gate array technologies on the one hand, and manage the increasing algorithmic complexity of applications on the other hand.
But these distinct projects are complicated by their similarities: so much of Whitman's poetry is concerned with defining his persona and promoting the work, while the reviews are strangely poetic, to the point that they could be mistaken for passages from the poetry.
Essentially, this policy reform was concerned with defining the different categories of nurses in South Africa, specifying the minimum qualifications required for each category of nurse, and describing the articulation between them.
According to Armstrong [5], the deficiency model of training happens when learning needs analysis is sometimes assumed to be concerned only with defining the gap between what is going on and what should happen.
