concern with

concern (someone) with (someone or something)

1. To involve someone in something to the extent that they feel partly responsible for dealing with it. You really don't need to concern your mother with our financial issues—we're perfectly capable of sorting them out on our own.
2. To cause someone to worry about something. I don't want to concern my parents with this news until we get more information about how serious the illness is.
See also: concern
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

concern someone with someone or something

to busy someone with someone or something; to worry someone with thoughts of someone or something. I hope Jennifer does not concern herself with this matter. Try to concern him with something other than his work.
See also: concern
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • concern (someone) with (someone or something)
  • concern in
  • concern (someone) in (something)
  • put (someone) in the picture
  • put someone in the picture
  • put/keep somebody in the picture
  • incorporate
  • incorporate (someone or something) in(to) (something)
  • incorporate in
  • factor in
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The Soccsksargen region registered the highest level of concern with 67 percent.
The ACCI measured level of concern with or planfulness for the developmental tasks of the four career stages of exploration, establishment, maintenance, and disengagement posited in Super's life-span, life-space theory (Super et al., 1996).
These fall into roughly two categories: growing concern with understanding the extent and nature of poverty, and reforms that marked children off from the rest of the population.
The deeper issue was the doctor's failure to address his long-standing concern with the nurse's competence.
They also are concerned by the loss of farmland due to urban sprawl; the treatment of animals with special concern with what they term `factory farms'; the safety of biotechnology in food; and environmental concerns.
"We didn't feel there was a lot of concern with the possible exception of young male infants who might be critically ill and have prolonged exposure to numerous devices that contain DEHP," he says.
A significant concern with this alternative is that modification might not be undertaken in a comprehensive manner or at the suggested levels, thus allowing some or many of the problems to persist and the criticisms to remain.
A concern with social ethics is acknowledged through articles by Bryan N.
Hart's concern with the ideal and universal in cultural process locates Hart firmly in a line of descent from Rudolf Wittkower and Frances Yates, whose insiste nce on the centrality of Platonist-Pythagorean ideas in the culture of the Renaissance Hart develops, implicitly placing Serlio as a kind of missing link between Alberti and Palladio, the heroes of Wittkower's classic account.
Critical analyzes and theories about Toni Morrison's novels have adequately discussed her parallel concern with exploring the myriad permutations of African American identity and the art and substance of storytelling.
They seek both to determine the level of concern with particular issues and to learn the characteristics of those who are most concerned.
It involves meat avoidance, a concern for the environment and animal welfare, gender equality, weight loss behaviors, and a concern with body appearance.
Burke noted that the Institute's biggest concern with the treaty process is the level of taxpayer participation.
For the sanctuary movement, it is diffusion to the popular literature that gives the best signal of interest in and concern with this issue.
Asked to express the amount of concern they had about 14 economic conditions and investment trends, on a scale of one to five, with one indicating the least concern and five the greatest, respondents indicated the most concern with the ethics of the securities markets.