concerned to

idiom

chiefly British

: to consider as important to (do something)

She was concerned to show that she could do the job.

Examples of concerned to in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

To that end, Dr. Witt urges people who are concerned to contact their representatives in Washington, D.C., and ask them to support Senator Tammy Duckworth’s Access to Family Building Act, which establishes a statutory right to access IVF for Americans nationwide. —Maressa Brown, Parents, 26 Feb. 2024

Specifically, the Court was then concerned to prevent activist liberal judges from preventing new administrations from changing their policies in a deregulatory direction. —The Editors, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024

Some analysts were concerned to see the unemployment rate for Black workers increase in June to 6 percent, after reaching a low of 4.7 percent two months earlier. —Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 7 July 2023

Some analysts were concerned to see the unemployment rate for Black workers increase in June to 6%, after reaching a low of 4.7% two months earlier. —Talmon Joseph Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023

Kira Being surprised and concerned to discover your co-worker is filming you at work is understandable. —Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 4 July 2023

The experiment attracted the attention of a friend and fellow technology artist named Memo Akten, who was concerned to see his climate-conscious friend getting involved in blockchain. —Gregory Barber, Wired, 6 Mar. 2021

The global pandemic has further heightened the importance of food delivery – not just as a convenience – but a matter of life and death since the COVID-19 lockdown has prevented those ill, quarantined, or just plain concerned to go out shopping for food. —Michael Kure, Forbes, 27 May 2021

By the summer of 2021, Phil Maytubby, deputy CEO of the health department here, was concerned to see the numbers of people getting vaccinated against covid-19 slipping after an initially robust response. —Lauren Sausser, CNN, 9 Jan. 2023