Such a rethinking implies that Europeans should put the cause of democratic reform in the Arab world ahead of more concrete concerns like financial or energy interests, or the prevention of migration to Europe.
(5) Improving durability of RA concrete: concerns about durability and the long-term performance of concrete with RA are hurdles that limit utilization of RA in many applications.
While agreeing with some of the concrete concerns expressed in the report about, in particular, women' s rights, and while approving some amendments which point the way to progress, we do not intend to support the European Union' s claim that 'respect for, and promotion of, human rights and fundamental freedoms... constitute fundamental objectives of EU foreign policy'.
"It is the slab avalanches, the big masses of snow that move along the ground like a flow of concrete, that concern us".
An important issue in seismic design of concrete buildings concerns the stability of structural walls when subjected to intense earthquake ground motions.
as favoring group separation over inter-group exchange and finding a common ground; as being into national-level grand posturing while ignoring the local hic et nunc; as being largely theoretical and aloof of concrete policy concerns; and as showing itself unprepared for compromising its radical and purist agenda.
This pattern of results represents a starting point for the formation of concrete hypotheses concerning the effects of atomoxetine on specific aspects of cognition in Parkinson's disease, to be directly investigated in future studies.
To assist our understanding of the moral aspects of living with severe familial disease, the ethnographic analysis is aligned with bioethical reflections that place the concrete concerns of those personally involved centre stage in the development of theoretical stances that aim to assist reflections in practice.
Other more concrete concerns capture our attention.
The brittleness of concrete raises several concerns due to the lack of strength and ductility in the plastic hinge region of reinforced concrete columns.
Alkali-silica reaction (ASR) of reactive aggregates is a major durability concern of concrete.
