It is chiefly concerned with human life and well-being, though it sometimes also treats ethical questions relating to the nonhuman biological environment.
Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, was right this morning to say what all sensible people do – and the polls confirm it – that voters are chiefly concerned about jobs, investment and pay rates, and are right to be so.
China is chiefly concerned to diversify its foreign reserves, but other sovereign-wealth funds own national, as well as international, assets.The top 12 each have anything from $20 billion to hundreds of billions of dollars to invest (see table).
Bellow himself seems chiefly concerned that readers will ignore the book's fictive qualities, and consider it only as a memoir of Allan Bloom.
The other land-based Koli are chiefly concerned with agriculture.
Roberts chiefly concerned herself with the surrounding wildlife – oystercatchers, terns, warblers in the reeds.
Other, smaller cities are chiefly concerned with processing agricultural products (flour milling, distilling, and the extraction of vegetable oil).
Adygeya's industry is chiefly concerned with processing farm produce, but oil and natural gas are exploited near Maykop, the administrative centre of the republic.
And of those who do sign up, some are chiefly concerned with provisions like fire safety, so they stop voting when they get to the energy provisions.
Until about the 16th century, trigonometry was chiefly concerned with computing the numerical values of the missing parts of a triangle (or any shape that can be dissected into triangles) when the values of other parts were given.
The city's industries are chiefly concerned with processing those products and include meatpacking, lard refining, leather tanning, shipbuilding, and the manufacturing of textiles, metallurgic goods, electrical and communications equipment, plastics, pharmaceuticals, perfume, beer, and chemicals.
