There have always been Friends whose concerns went well beyond what meetings were willing to adopt.
Either way, the makeup of Congress will affect whose concerns lawmakers take up with federal agencies.
Credit rating agencies have thus emerged as a powerful constituency whose concerns are taken seriously by Congress.
The recent growth of China's cities has created two new social forces whose concerns Mr Xi cannot afford to ignore.
I gather it is because of my perceived identity as a dance artist whose concerns transcend the confines of dance.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, an early advocate of European unity, introduced the concept of the Übermensch, a heroic figure whose concerns rise above those of ordinary beings.
The southern African nations, whose concerns were shared by India, feared what one Commonwealth source described as the "imperial overtones" in the report's 106 recommendations.
Listen to design and test engineers, whose concerns are often downplayed or overlooked in the excitement of taking a new product to market.
One of those was Mitchell B. Fox, a former senior executive at Condé whose concerns about the company's Internet strategy contributed to his departure earlier this year.
It has shown the disconnect between the elites in Bogotá and the country's marginalized people, whose concerns and fears were little accounted for.
And the LGBT community was excluded from a list of groups whose concerns would be protected by a new human rights ministry.
