Admittedly, "serious and concerned" can look quite a lot like explosive acid indigestion on some people – like Mr Le Bon here.
"Our clients are calling with concerns about the breadth of the government's reactions to what are admittedly serious transactions," said Michael L. Jamieson, a lawyer with Holland & Knight.
It perpetuates the perception that the practice is ongoing when it all stems from the one, admittedly serious, outbreak in 2011 that is still moving slowly through the system at home and abroad, both at a soccer and legal level.
Between 2008 and 2011, Congress authorised $76m£48m8m) of spending on such efforts – a sign of serious intent, though admittedly very little compared with the forces it is intended to fight.
That said, the BBC still is by miles the greatest broadcaster in the world, and the sight of some papers trying to trash it for two admittedly serious mistakes is fairly loathsome.
The problems of college football seemed to move from the admittedly serious to the plain hard to believe last week with the news that a major donor to the University of Miami had admitted to providing cash payments, prostitutes and lavish gifts to 72 Hurricanes players from 2002 through 2010.
There are, admittedly, serious risks of engagement efforts backfiring, particularly if communities object to engagement with particular people and organizations or if engagement partners take controversial public stances.
Last month the World Food Programme WFPP) called for urgent help to avert a "serious tragedy".North Korea, admittedly, has a chronic food crisis.
When it comes to condoms, part of educators' problem seems to be their attempt to utilise condoms' inherent comedy value to try and put across a more serious message: something which, admittedly, this article is also trying to do, and is probably failing at.
We all supported Ghana because we like something different to the European and South American hegemony as long as they pose no serious threat to it, admittedly patronising, but Clive made me feel they should win because they smile a lot.
