Ferociously protective of the rights she valued, she declared other women's concerns peripheral and unworthy.

She had expected to gripe about the gentrification of TriBeCa, the mayoral race and the difficulty of being a bohemian these days, but Sept. 11 made those concerns peripheral at best.

Many still cling to cold war distinctions between Western Europe, which is implicitly defined as a vital interest, and Eastern Europe, which is seen as a secondary or peripheral concern.

Only a peripheral concern remained, leaving her confused.

However for the majority, geology was not their main scientific interest, but rather a transient or peripheral concern.

It also means ensuring that the full inclusion of disabled people is integral to an organisation's structure, rather than peripheral concern easily surrendered to other interests.

Within consciousness there are often focal and peripheral concerns - again the result of differential attention.

Love has changed from a peripheral concern of the family into its primary justification.

Along the St. John's waterfront, anger at Ottawa's failure to restrain the trawler fleets has made the Meech Lake accord a peripheral concern.

The failures have been largely inconspicuous, dwarfed by the dimensions of Barry Bonds's troubles and as often as not reduced to a peripheral concern by the general success of the Braves.