Those concerns have a distinctly Chinese flavour, ranging from China's work on a deep water port next door in Pakistan to the somewhat provocative visit made recently to the Seychelles by China's president, Hu Jintao (shown above, left).The military men in particular feel that India is being encircled, its natural domain of the Indian Ocean being increasingly penetrated.
It was not that Peter was indifferent to the civil liberties of people in Britain, but the causes he espoused were always distinctly concerned with global human rights.
The investigated aspirates differed distinctly concerning the extent of centrosome defects.
Social issues, it appeared, were distinctly secondary concerns.
First produced in 1923, Rice's seventh stage play — he had written a number of successful melodramas — was lauded for its Expressionistic dialogue and distinctly modern concerns: racism, loneliness, alienation.
Concerns about how the distinctly American indie (how to translate "bromance"?) might play overseas were swept up in that cacophony: its sweet-sad, funny-tense cadence was confirmed as universal.
With this approach the "grammar" of the Western philosophical tradition is downplayed to the extent possible, the exegetes and translators believing that it distorts the Chinese materials by overwriting them with distinctly Western concerns; we should not look for theodicean writings in a culture without a concept of an all-good creator God.
Of course not all children spend all their time indoors, nor is technology inherently bad; nevertheless, some observers are voicing distinctly practical concerns.
To display too much interest in one's studies or a concern for grades was distinctly uncool.
The ferocious cruelty of these jihadist fighters, quoting the Qur'an as they behead their hapless victims, raises another distinctly modern concern: the connection between religion and violence.
