The canon seems concerned to hold on to power, the power of the middle ground.
They were concerned to hold on to the prosperous territory that had been acquired by Ferdinand of Aragon Naples and the Sicilies, Milan and Lombardy, Burgundy and the Netherlands.
With opinion polls showing the effect of the Paris attacks fast wearing off, it was hard not to agree with the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, that David Cameron was concerned to hold the vote "before it slips from his hands".
But German diplomacy within Europe is driven by one overriding concern: to hold the fiscal line against calls for a more expansive approach.
"A group of local landowners took out second mortgages on their homes to buy up and save the land at Mianus River, then looked for a concern to hold that property".
Amnesty International's Northern Ireland director Patrick Corrigan expressed his disappointment with the DUP's decision to block the vote telling Attitude magazine: "The misuse of the petition of concern to hold back rather than uphold the rights of a minority group, will mean that the motion is formally defeated.
Markit doesn't expect such concerns to hold back seven other firms that paid back TARP loans though, with U.S. Bancorp, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, State Street, BB&T, Bank of New York Mellon and Northern Trust all expected to increase their dividends at some point in 2010.
On the heel of Cypriot bank-deposit delirium, we suspect that the U.S. central bankers had more than enough concern to hold firm to the seemingly limitless flow of monetary easing.
To opponents of these regimes, nationalism was simply a propaganda ploy on the part of ruthless dictatorships concerned to justify their hold on power.
And it seems to be this kind of theoretical inquiry that Timon represents Pyrrho as eschewing; as one fragment puts it (addressing Pyrrho), "you were not concerned to inquire what winds hold sway over Greece, from where everything comes and into what it passes" (Diogenes Laertius 9.65).
On Thursday, Germany's Ethics Council, an independent body made up of 26 members who specialize in various scientific, ethical, social and legal concerns, is to hold a public discussion on the circumcision debate.
