There are several thousand Asians, forming a community that is predominantly concerned with trade.
If this fact seizes your attention, I suspect that's intended, but be warned that "Rapture" isn't an especially sexy book; it's not even predominantly concerned with sex.
Canine face-lifts aside, Greenfield is predominantly concerned with the pervasive aspiration toward acquisition and display, be it among those with old money, those with new, or those with next to none.
The OFNS thus helped Astor to further build the Observer's international reputation for independent coverage of foreign affairs at a time when many newspapers were still predominantly concerned with local and national news.
In an essay titled "No risks now, folks!", Renate Köcher, director of the Allensbach opinion research institute, described voters as predominantly concerned with their own material security and "allergic to political reforms".
Whereas the Jesuits seemed to represent a Counter-Reformation predominantly concerned with orthodoxy and obedience to ecclesiastical authority, the Provinciales advocated a more spiritual approach, emphasizing the soul's union with the Mystical Body of Christ through charity.
From talking to teachers as a national executive member for Tyne and Weir, I've found that people are predominantly concerned about their workloads, the constant changes to the curriculum, and the pressure they're put under by Ofsted, league tables and performance indicators.
Whether or not the resultant uniformity was or still is both pleasing and desirable is certainly open to discussion; but it will be perceived that any argument about architectural standardization must primarily be a question of value, rather than of cost, and it is with values that architectural theory has always been predominantly concerned.
With regards to monitoring, we are predominantly concerned with VMs.
