Consumers wanted to be subconsciously influenced in a manner they considered desirable. |
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They are also very expensive, which is merely unfortunate since, like intaglios and Abyssinian cats, they are infinitely desirable. |
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In other words, not all opportunities for intimacy or sexual interaction may be perceived as equally desirable or rewarding. |
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True, pistachios are fatty, but most of the fat is of the desirable unsaturated kind. |
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How can we make things beautiful, attractive and desirable for us when they are not? |
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All parties agreed that he was a brutal, merciless tyrant whose removal was desirable. |
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This alone should make the book desirable for those interested in amber or aficionados of fossil insects and spiders. |
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Prompting strategies are verbal or written antecedent messages that designate desirable target behaviors. |
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The pair have travelled the country to find the most sought-after and least desirable postcodes. |
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It is not desirable, but while not condoning the behaviour you try and counsel her and direct her to the parents. |
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In the tropics, you can still find other, less desirable banana varieties, mainly grown as a starchy food staple rather than a sweet treat. |
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Over time it gradually strayed from its mandate and became a desirable retirement home for wealthy citizens. |
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In contrast, the changes in the WBC of leukopenic specimens, as observed from day 5 onward in particular, are less than desirable. |
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This is not to argue that everything about modernity is rational or desirable. |
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I know it's not the most desirable answer, but people have different libidos when with different partners. |
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The essential issue here is the extent to which a desirable condition for privatization is economic deregulation. |
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Among other non-hydrophilic organic solvents mentioned above, benzene and ligroin prove to be particularly desirable for practical use. |
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Considering the helmet weight and possibility of neck strain, it is desirable to wear helmets with chin guards made of unbreakable plastic. |
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It won't discriminate between pest caterpillars and those of desirable moths and butterflies. |
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Okay, it has stirred a fresh debate, and that is both healthy and desirable. |
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It would be desirable to have a system of Romanization that differentiates them in a way that is more indicative of the actual phonetic values. |
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And, as often happens, the satire was suppressed, making it more desirable. |
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Obviously, the removal of a dictator by the people themselves is probably the most desirable outcome in these situations. |
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Multicenter trials seem desirable for a rapid progress in this field of therapy. |
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England is not mentioned specifically as a desirable destination in this specific passage. |
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An experimental verification of the predictions of the theory would be highly desirable. |
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You could still be a kept man and still be socially desirable, not be a villain. |
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From a theoretical point of view it seems desirable to handle these three model components simultaneously. |
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Secondary operations raise cost and are not considered desirable to cost-effective pricing. |
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Other desirable hybrid characteristics include good stalk strength and flexible ear size and number. |
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Designed to bring out the most desirable traits of two apples, hybrids lend versatility to the apple world. |
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Other factors, such as the enhanced capital gains exemption and liability concerns, also make incorporation highly desirable. |
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A long half life would be desirable in order for it to be able to build up in all cells. |
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I have already mentioned why a white coat might have been a desirable characteristic. |
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It is commendable and desirable, but not essential to the public need, that our aesthetic desires be gratified. |
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There is, today, a general recognition that price stability is highly desirable from an economic standpoint. |
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Whatever happens, the least desirable outcome is for the people to show no emotion at all. |
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Accordingly, a large depth of field is a very desirable feature in binocular design. |
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And carelessness is not a desirable attribute for an institution which is entrusted with children. |
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He did not want to hurt her, but he did not want her to think she was not desirable. |
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He proved that, although he looks a little like a shy physics teacher, he is in fact a passionate and desirable man. |
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You're a very desirable woman and I wouldn't be much of a man if I didn't try to make love to you. |
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Roman writers often accused women of wanting to employ a wet nurse only for the sake of maintaining a sexually desirable figure. |
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I also did it to remind myself that I was desirable, that I could have any man if I wanted, that he wasn't the only man in my life. |
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The most desirable woman, the most interesting book, neither can hold his attention. |
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Meanwhile, the world's most desirable woman in tennis is struggling to improve her game. |
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All the hip hop and snide answers only make him even more childish and less sexually desirable. |
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In the 1950s a bosom was all-important, for as long as a woman had a bosom she was desirable. |
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The truth is many guys are doing all of the wrong things when it comes to becoming more sexually desirable to women. |
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By contrast, Elin appears to be in the spatial centre as she is a popular and sexually desirable young woman. |
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It features a model with a modest acting resume, and makes her the most desirable woman to have graced the screen in recent years. |
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Anyone could understand why the world's most desirable women would date wealthy men. |
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Not every mother agrees that it is desirable to identify and terminate a fetus with Down's syndrome. |
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Recycling for profit is one thing, but when no money changes hands, other people's cast-offs are less desirable. |
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Here are some methods for breaking old habits and creating new, desirable ones. |
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Your sinus cavities produce mucus to help expel viruses, so a runny nose is actually desirable. |
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He reminded carters that Mintaro was a very desirable place as there was an abundance of feed and water. |
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There have been a number of cases presented where atomicity over a group of operations has been desirable. |
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The most desirable color for sapphire is a velvety cornflower blue called Kashmir blue. |
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Motorcycle parts like saddles are provided with products that can make them look new and desirable again. |
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As well, the porous nature of the exudate allows for the wound to breathe, a desirable characteristic of a bioadhesive. |
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Treatments such as fertilization can increase the competitive ability of more desirable plants, preventing hawkweeds from becoming established. |
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A white blaze adorns his muzzle and forehead, and it is highly desirable that the dog has white feet. |
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As you can see madam, this is a very desirable terraced property close to all local amenities. |
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As a society we have grown to accept hasty judgement and instant, severe punishment as the desirable norm. |
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We don't think the economic blockade is going to produce a constructive and desirable result. |
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Given the above, it is both desirable and possible for neo-liberal policies and unfettered capitalism to be resisted and challenged. |
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However, neither approach has any of the desirable properties of a multivariate statistical model. |
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It is, though, a desirable middle-class property, as it sits along with its uniform neighbours on the slanting road. |
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In the same way, a good parent encourages desirable acts and discourages undesirable ones. |
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Of course in practice, all substances produce both desirable and undesirable effects. |
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They also can sort desirable and undesirable messages by means of automatic filters. |
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It is undisputed that the increasing trend to learn and use English is desirable. |
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We have shot our bolt and couldn't now take similar action elsewhere, even if this were desirable. |
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The flesh is a little coarse, very juicy, sprightly, subacid, and desirable for either dessert or culinary uses. |
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I would emphasize that, although unessential, it is nevertheless highly desirable. |
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The more desirable garden bamboos are, naturally, those that grow slowly at the root and have rapid vertical growth. |
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The adoption of this teaching leads to certain desirable physiological consequences in the end product. |
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This is by no means to argue that a return to matriarchy would be either possible or desirable. |
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Moreover, sometimes an area becomes blighted almost overnight, so that what was a desirable home becomes unsaleable and again the price plummets. |
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They are living in cloud cuckoo land if they think they can transform the ugly concrete monstrosity into desirable homes. |
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The same qualities that made gold a desirable medium of exchange in the ancient world make orichalc useful to mages. |
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A member may view purchase of a home in the locality of posting as more desirable than other forms of housing assistance. |
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There are some locations where traffic calming, over and above that provided by the existing laws of the highway, may be desirable. |
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The increasing scarcity of more desirable hardwoods led people to make use of structurally suboptimal building materials. |
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Although such control is desirable, it is impossible to see how it can be effectively achieved. |
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Silver is still desirable, but other metallics and copper tones in costume jewellery are making inroads. |
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The authors do not even address the fact that it might be desirable to prevent physical suffering. |
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With the institution of the family so beleaguered, it would be highly desirable for the reigning House to set an example. |
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Also implied was the suggestion that femininity coupled with an aggressive stance is desirable. |
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Slowly but surely it becomes easier and infinitely more desirable to tell and to live the truth than to indulge in porky-pies. |
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Therefore, for certain applications, Gregorian telescopes have desirable advantages over other telescope designs. |
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If possible, weed the unwanted oxalis in flower beds rather than use a herbicide, which may damage or kill your more desirable plants. |
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With a desirable location, light-filled accommodation and sunny rear garden, this property will appeal to growing families. |
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But these eastern Pacific islands are as desirable diving destinations as you'll ever find. |
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The F, or femininity, scale measures socially desirable personality traits perceived to be stereotypically characteristic of women. |
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Furthermore, by inbreeding his livestock he fixed and exaggerated those traits he felt to be desirable. |
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It would be more desirable to keep the power on, but realistically it is not panic stations if they do not stay on. |
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It has the world's most famous beaches, the world's most desirable bodies, and inspires the world's most outrageous flirtations. |
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Therefore the information obtained depends on the subjectiveness of the probability values, which is not very desirable. |
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Flixweed is a vigorous plant and a prolific seed producer, enabling it to be highly competitive to desirable plant species. |
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Drying may bring about a desirable change in flavour, as in pepper where the pungency increases. |
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Smokers figure the pleasure derived from smoking today is more desirable than the beneficial future health effects of giving up the coffin nails. |
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Unbiased clinical trials, objective drug data, and perfect pharmacovigilance are desirable but probably illusory and certainly expensive. |
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It has also been argued that inasmuch as we consider computers capable of holding responsibility, we blame them for our less desirable behaviors. |
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By evaluating 451 clover lines, they hope to find parental breeding material with these desirable characteristics. |
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They are so desirable because of their aesthetic features, their durability and rarity. |
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Domesticity is chic and desirable, and domestic bliss is what millions of women hanker for. |
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Males with poorly decorated or unsymmetrical bowers are less desirable mates. |
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It would have been very desirable to take a very hard look at what synergy the merger might realistically achieve. |
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Pansies were originally hybridized in Europe in the 19th century, and quickly became a very desirable cultivar for gardeners everywhere. |
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One Swiss study examined the question of whether chronic course is a desirable classifier in the diagnostic system of mood disorders. |
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A skylight can be an efficient and desirable source of passive solar heating, assuming that you need the heat. |
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If it is desirable to stop the sweating abruptly, atropine hypodermically may be resorted to. |
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And I'm not here to deal with hypotheticals on what might happen in the eventuality of that highly desirable outcome not coming about. |
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Ninety-two percent of women said dependability is a desirable characteristic in an ideal mate. |
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Status within the peer group is secured by having a desirable, alpha male boyfriend. |
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Even if it were desirable, a completely fat-free diet would be impossibly bulky. |
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The film appears unrestored, as the source contains a fair amount of dirt in spots, and the image has a coarser patina of grain than desirable. |
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Not only was he convinced that national unity was possible, but also desirable. |
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But further analysis, and improvement in reporting and comparability, are clearly desirable. |
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Sometimes it's desirable to dimension the inside radius and set the outside radius. |
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If a concordat with the private sector is desirable in England, it should be considered here too. |
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But demand changed and as large pedestal dining tables have become desirable again, longer sets of chairs are required to accompany them. |
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Native-grown breadfruit, mango, soursop, pawpaw, and cashews are regarded by some locals as less desirable food. |
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The idea of somehow locking the firing pin is thought desirable because there is always a possibility a pistol might discharge if dropped. |
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Although a rabbi was not needed to solemnize marriages, the rabbis suggest that their presence at weddings was desirable. |
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Her disdainful tone dismissed the idea of anyone desirable sending love letters. |
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Such autonomy encourages what to him is a desirable element of calculated risk-taking. |
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The success of the gutter press is offputting for many of those candidates possessing the most desirable of political attributes. |
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But their dismantlement by political power is neither desirable nor possible for both economic and social reasons. |
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To do well for myself, I have to create a product or service that is positive and desirable for others. |
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Nor is it good to offer women to butter-bellied Falstaff, too ugly and degenerate to be desirable. |
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While the goals of virtualization are desirable, virtualization alone proved unable to achieve those goals. |
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This was not a desirable use of time, and it hardly squared with public priorities for policing. |
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Other desirable birds utilize bird houses, especially these days when so many old trees with alluring cavities have been demolished. |
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It's not a particularly desirable place now unless you really want to hide-away in dozy and thoroughly low-key French Caribbean style. |
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Lot 19522 is the rare and desirable 19th century silk baseball Stevengraph. |
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Coherence, stability, and resistance to inconsistency and ambiguity are desirable ontological model characteristics. |
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This week, however, it has truly outdone itself, with desirable vehicles to make the fattest of fat cats drool. |
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If overweight, her desirable weight gain is significantly less, about 15 to 25 pounds. |
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This panoramic river area, with its soaring basalt cliffs and striking golden hills, has become a desirable area for vacationers. |
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It had to overlap and go crazy on ligatures we had never thought possible, nor even desirable. |
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Communal disharmony, not spiritual harmony, might seem more desirable to secure the unthinking loyalty of the faithful. |
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Testing during extremely dry weather or when the ground is frozen may be less desirable. |
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It is desirable to keep such yeasts which remain active and can be used again for the following vatfuls. |
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Higher protein soybeans will produce higher protein meal, which would be desirable for feed. |
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When Marxists believed that socialism was inevitable, there was no need to explain why it was desirable. |
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Crossbreading of some sparid species was performed in order to select some hybrids with desirable characteristics. |
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Slick and stylish, it makes the brave new world of wireless capitalism look attractive and desirable. |
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Also you pull in more than is desirable or necessary for the optimum climb rate when you're on the control bar. |
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Study, then, is a habit as desirable as her religious vestments, the garb of potential spiritual insight. |
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Other contaminants, while not a health risk, can make water less desirable for domestic use. |
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An extrusion method is used to obtain leavened dough products with desirable characteristics. |
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During the long and miserable forty days of Lent, desirable edibles such as eggs and butter were not permitted to be eaten. |
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The store itself has a relatively inexpensive rent because the location isn't the most desirable even though it has a high visibleness position. |
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The best way to make every property more visitable is to make Pittsburgh a more desirable place to live. |
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The door to my room had in fact been shifted a yard forward to give me exclusive use of this less than desirable ablutionary facility. |
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High ratings were also given to other desirable fish like the bluegill, the walleye, and the yellow perch. |
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For females in pair-bonding species, competency at fatherhood is a potential mate's most desirable quality. |
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The greater the possible dynamic range, the more necessary and desirable it became for composers to specify their exact intentions. |
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While abstinence may be a desirable goal for these individuals, not many accomplish it. |
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It is desirable that bursting apparatus be capable of properly bursting all business forms used. |
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The area has the desirable combination of cool evening ocean breezes and good summer sun and warm temperatures. |
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The low waterplane area is desirable to reduce motion characteristics from waves, especially during swell seas and storms. |
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A dog breeder will choose dogs with desirable characteristics to parent future litters. |
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Incentives and discipline work together to secure a desirable outcome for the country as a whole. |
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They also design the most glamorous and desirable crochet silk throws and scarves and elegant tableware and bed linen. |
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Very wide scope of types, many have colorful pictorial frankings and the topical content is desirable throughout. |
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Some sort of cross reference between the photograph and part is desirable although labour intensive if carried out manually. |
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You would be scared out of your mind, but there is nothing more important or more desirable than going before God, Creator of heaven and earth. |
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This ability to digest the less desirable species of flora means Galloways will thrive in less than ideal conditions. |
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Free Church Presbyterians were certainly high on Douglass' list of desirable converts to the antislavery cause. |
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Citizenship should be prized and celebrated, with the proviso that it is not always as desirable as it sounds. |
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This could have been one of those rare wheezes which combines a desirable outcome with populist appeal. |
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If full employment is a desirable goal, then a policy of low real rates of interest ought to be followed. |
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The larger winter squashes such as the Green Mountain, Hubbard, and banana, are also desirable varieties. |
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Relatives seek out prospective mates for their kin from desirable families. |
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Because the loquat, or Japanese plum, is symmetrical and has a dense, evergreen crown, it is desirable in the home landscape. |
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In fact, we should be thinking about what is cool, desirable, sexy and fashionable. |
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New leafy shoots can be used for brewing spruce beer, although Norway spruce is not as desirable as black or red spruce. |
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My husband and I moved from Surrey six months ago after ten years in a desirable but busy commuter belt. |
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Some of the more desirable lorgnettes had detailed, very artistic engraving and long handles. |
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Unattainable luxuries were transformed into desirable marks of status or even into affordable necessities. |
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In this regard, it is desirable to test their ability to distinguish between active disease and indolent infection. |
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Optimal sensor placement is desirable to ensure adequate coverage of the network's flow for detection and remediation of contaminants. |
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Moving the crossbeam was the most desirable option, and the power lines appeared dead. |
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This not only makes the home a desirable rental, it's ideal for the owners as well. |
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To amortize that investment, it is desirable that a given facility be designed to serve for several ecosystem generations. |
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Boys were desirable because they carried on the family name, which was passed on through the male line. |
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They must always be aware we are desirable and wooable by rival males and or females. |
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True to their name, trailing fuchsias are the most desirable for planting in suspended containers. |
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When the upper middle classes complain about housing prices, they are really fretting about the cost of housing in the most desirable locations. |
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Call me a wowser if you must, but I can't see that this is a desirable form of hedonism. |
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In fact in most cases, it is highly desirable to have an editor that wraps long text lines. |
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Do you think it is possible, or desirable, to identify a specifically female language or prosody? |
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The author writes a good deal about the limitations of security protocols, and the trade-offs between good security and other desirable things. |
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Such alloys have been found to be especially desirable in sporting equipment, such as baseball bats, lacrosse sticks, and bicycle frames. |
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Personal freedom, individual autonomy and maximum access to information have long been seen as desirable ends in themselves. |
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Women still found it desirable to behave in a ladylike manner and men strove to be gentlemen. |
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Positive reinforcement for desirable behavior will reduce reliance on punishment. |
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Democracy is obviously more desirable than a dictatorship, but that does not justify any forcible change by an external power. |
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Once again, Danae's impregnation by gold is presented as a desirable rather than lamentable event in this comic context. |
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Mushrooms, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and lettuce are good snack foods, and they add highly desirable phytonutrients and fiber to your diet. |
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A requirement of form deters sharp practice and fraud whilst encouraging the desirable elements of a seriously intended, voluntary agreement. |
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This is especially desirable if you own a historical landmark and wish for it to be restored to its former appearance. |
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It was no doubt helpful that he grew in a household with other users, in circumstances in which quiet was respected and desirable. |
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We fully agree that such a step is highly desirable, but we respectfully cannot agree that it is open to this court. |
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For this reason it is desirable to save cormels to develop a constant supply of young, vigorous corms. |
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Spinach is a desirable leaf vegetable with good cooking qualities and a high nutritive value. |
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The pub itself is a delightful treasure trove of eccentric bric-a-brac and antiques, which makes it an even more desirable destination. |
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It may be desirable to separate generically the species having the hemispherical apertures, median ciliated pore, and sublateral avicularium. |
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But they have fallen into the clutches of certain people not as desirable as the Yuppie overman. |
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A degree of plurality, with respect to both topics and points of view, is highly desirable. |
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A separation between the spiritual and the temporal is desirable and possible. |
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This would not necessarily invalidate my contention that converts were desirable because they brought with them greater access to the land. |
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In principle, continuity is eminently desirable but the principle shrivels if what is being continued doesn't have demonstrable worth. |
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To introduce desirable genes from blue catfish into channel catfish through introgression, a genetic linkage map is helpful. |
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This material is commonly known as terne and is used where ease of solderability and a degree of corrosion resistance are desirable. |
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Social resources are at least as important as ecological resources in supporting a desirable quality of life. |
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We don't necessarily market ourselves as Jamaican, although that is sometimes unavoidable and sometimes desirable. |
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In environments like sound recording studios, a machine like this one would be highly desirable. |
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It is testimony to how persistent efforts of residents could lead to visible and desirable changes in the neighbourhood. |
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The most negatively affected birds are those characterized by the otherwise desirable traits of rapid growth and muscle accretion. |
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An easy way to overwinter desirable varieties is to root cuttings in the fall. |
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The segregation of women and sexual apartheid are seen as a desirable state for women in society. |
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Servants bound for less desirable colonial destinations also received shorter terms. |
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Shane Filan, a self confessed car nut, has collected some very desirable machines, including a Ferrari and two classic American muscle cars. |
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Allocation of adequate resources for research in these fields is highly desirable. |
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All these attributes make alfalfa a highly desirable crop for many farms and ranches. |
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To redirect growth, prune back to a side branch that is growing in a more desirable direction. |
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Bulk insulation like pink batts is less desirable, because it prevents the house cooling down at night. |
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In this view of history, infinitely perfectable humans progress towards the desirable end of perfect happiness. |
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The frequency of renegotiation is troubling because the contractual changes often are not desirable. |
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From the viewpoint of public policy this is desirable, if banks are to be encouraged to nurse ailing companies back to health. |
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A wineglassful taken each morning before breakfast is the full dose, but at first it may be desirable to give only half this quantity. |
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Kitemarks or seals of approval are usually based on checklists of desirable attributes of quality or some other feature of the information. |
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On the contrary, the moment a book becomes illegal contraband it is suddenly all the more desirable. |
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It was just crazy that he would have these feelings for her, when she was outshone in the two most desirable traits by the two girls who normally sat beside her. |
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These defences recognise that it is not desirable to criminalise young people for sexual experimentation, despite how we as parents might feel about that activity. |
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Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. |
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But it wasn't until Choco Chanel charlestoned back from the Mediterranean with a deep golden tan, that bronzed skin became a truly desirable item. |
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The acid had the desirable effect of keeping the sugar mixture clear and hard when it cooled, instead of graining, i.e. recrystallizing to granulated sugar. |
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As desirable as the high standard of ignitability of hydrogen within the engine may be, it also requires a great deal of attention outside of the combustion chamber. |
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Therefore, if we are foolhardy enough to tax the desirable voluntary activities of individuals and firms, we should expect the ill effects to be numerous and serious. |
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It will allow for a greater fermentation without breaking, give more volume, and is much more desirable when you are looking for irregularity of the interior crumb. |
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A fruitful wife is most desirable to maintain the health of the system. |
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Heifers had more desirable yield and quality grades than steers. |
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With its huddle of houses around a crescent-shaped beach, Elie, in the East Neuk of Fife, has long been known as one of Scotland's most desirable holiday addresses. |
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Uncommon in the U.S., it can be used in mild climates to create thin earthen walls, but lacks the thermal mass or insulation desirable in other climates. |
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A gallery forest is left intact, but a strip is cut immediately upslope and the desirable timber is removed by a road that is also designed to parallel the river. |
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A potential client may find a particular service provider to be comparatively more desirable than another because he or she employs scientifically better services. |
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Scientists surmise this allows the bacteria to orient themselves relative to Earth's magnetic field to guide their movement to desirable locations. |
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We can design materials with desirable properties, such as the ability to emit the three primary colours enabling us to make any colour on the spectrum. |
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For synovial diseases, such as pigmented villonodular synovitis, rheumatoid arthritis, and osteochondromatosis, it is desirable to remove as much of the synovium as possible. |
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Less desirable boats were offering passage for as little as fifty cents. |
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It was a sticky, toffee-like, delicious, crunchy, biscuity, sticky in your teeth kind of affair with the sesame flavouring it with desirable nuttiness. |
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Deflocculation may be acceptable during mixing, but strong deflocculation and over-deflocculation are not generally desirable in ceramic forming bodies. |
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But the London painted here, the Britain painted here, is a gilded, desirable place, magnificent yet homely, where rumours of empire intrude only as exotic hints. |
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I was looking for a gay man who specialized in CBT and whose office was geographically desirable. |
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Almost all desirable buildings in New York are co-ops, run by officious, and sometimes vicious, board members who place stringent criteria on new members. |
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If that seems desirable, consider providing that the lease is binding on the landlord's heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors or assigns. |
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The match was a desirable one, but Queen Elizabeth forbade the banns. |
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We have only the permission for that use and disposal, and then only so long as we dutifully serve the reigning mobocracy in the manner it deems desirable. |
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People with higher incomes can bid up and outbid people with less money for desirable goods and services, in this case, housing. |
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It is desirable for all offenders charged with an indictable or a serious summary offence to complete a copy of the fingerprint information form P59B in their own handwriting. |
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Of course, the central tabulator is the most desirable target. |
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What I mean by this term is that humour functions and is constructed to produce and reproduce certain desirable, socio-cultural effects within social in-groups. |
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Then you become hugely desirable, in a revolting sort of way. |
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His blades are so desirable they sell for the price of a good used pickup truck and they're unlikely ever to be used to cut even a length of string. |
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From the perspective of promoting human rights, is it desirable for the judiciary to have donned the didactic roles of pedagogues for democracy and constitutionalism? |
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Powdery confectioners' sugar contains a small amount of starch, which is desirable in some products like icings and pastry creams but not desirable in brioche. |
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As a handgun owner, it's not the most desirable outcome we could have had. |
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People with advanced degrees in conservation are highly desirable. |
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We're on the Medway estate, a well-kept network of mock Tudor semis and desirable council housing complete with spring blossom and multi-car ownership. |
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While it is desirable that some appropriate use is made of the land formerly occupied by the tannery, housing development is most certainly not a desirable option. |
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While traditional running gear and the attendant sounds of traction motors and gears was deemed a desirable feature, the goal of minimal maintenance was also introduced. |
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The very desirable nut meat is sweet, oily, and high in protein. |
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There is no formal convention in any genre of literature that would make it either possible or desirable to portray it in all its constancy and repetitiveness. |
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Informally, we know that both groups regard trout as desirable and that Menominee fishermen tend to regard them as somewhat more desirable than do majority-culture fishermen. |
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A materials checklist for device molders would generally show that materials must have a diverse set of desirable properties to satisfy most product engineers. |
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This annoys me no end, especially considering the piles of people I know who are perfectly desirable but single or celibate or virgins because of random situations. |
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Of course, in movies it is not always desirable to recover lost memories. |
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Busyness has become some kind of desirable state in our non-rural America. |
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Device to device data transfer is now becoming highly desirable. |
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In addition, the students' self-assessments revealed how they perceived their mastery of the competencies the faculty had established as desirable outcomes. |
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If this seems recommended, it is these reinforcers which might be exchangeable for tokens, which are delivered contingent on more desirable behavior. |
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Lesser spotted dogfish are amongst the most common bottom dwelling fish in many areas and can be a real nuisance when trying to catch more desirable species. |
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It is a legal structure that has been designed to accomplish several desirable goals, two of which are to avoid executorship and paying estate duty. |
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Wiltshire police are urging owners of staddle stones to postcode their property after a spate of thefts of the now desirable items throughout the Gazette's circulation area. |
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Like his picaresque kin, the novelized Fray Servando's family proves to be less than desirable and could be viewed as the catalyst in his decision to leave home. |
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In the 21st century, medicalisation has become mainstream, even desirable. |
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The starter cultures generally are desirable bacteria that produce lactic acid, gas for eye development, flavor, color and texture, and give milk its consistency. |
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The Stoics used to employ the term ataraxis to refer to this state of equanimity, and according to many, it is desirable to be free of passion, neither loving nor disliking. |
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The discovery of the latter nitrogenous base has made it appear desirable that a revision of the investigations made by the given authorities should be undertaken |
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He also excels at getting off his kicks in a hurry, achieving desirable hang time, placing the ball inside the opponent's 20-yard line and directional kicking. |
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Medicinal herbs are still deemed desirable, but flowers are not mentioned. |
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While there may be those who claim to be hazzanim or less than desirable candidates, that does not justify the diminished quality of prayer in such lay-led congregations. |
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That seems to be the secret to creating a successful, desirable, and wearable device. |
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So, thousands of years before Gregor Mendel postulated his theories on genetics and heredity, indigenous Americans were breeding corn to select for desirable traits. |
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