But they also have a right, in this year of intense public concern over the economy and social issues, to want a substantive debate.

A very young child, say 5 months old, with a fever of 103 is the object of intense concern.

The Limits to Growth in 1972 set off another period of intense public concern for natural resources.

The reformer had an intense concern for the deprived masses.

The sick man's eyes fluttered open again, and now they were filled with an intense, sharp concern.

Hostility can originate from intense concern and sincere interest in what is best for the other person.

It was this prospect that raised the intense concerns over civilian casualties.

We look at it with interest, and maybe with intense concern, but fundamentally it's out of our hands.

"It is my intense concern for the living that makes me study the dead," I said.

Security is tighter than ever and of intense concern.