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Take, for example, the desirable goal of job security.
More fundamentally, governments in oil-producing countries are confronting a political dilemma: Stronger economic growth, though desirable, requires regimes to take risks that could endanger their very survival.
Interestingly, many purveyors of pornography initially thought that better quality video would make their product more desirable.
In other words, purchases are more desirable than sales (which entail getting rid of something that you could otherwise use for yourself).
The decline of French influence in Europe is undeniable, but it is neither fatal nor desirable.
An idle fireman looked desirable.
When economic activity starts up again after a deep recession, it will not be as a consequence of people having been compelled to channel financial resources into the projects selected as politically desirable, but as a result of new ideas.
But, as the so-called Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) reaches its climax, the SPLM, based in the autonomous region of South Sudan, has abandoned all pretense that unity with the North and the government in Khartoum is either possible or desirable.
How much inflation a society finds desirable or tolerable (taking into account other important variables, such as employment, GDP growth, or poverty) is an inherently political question that should be debated in parliament.
So the fact that the West eyes Russia's acting president with suspicion makes him even more desirable to the traditional Russian heart.
Unlike moral hazard, market failure highlights circumstances in which government intervention is both socially desirable and economically defensible.
Economic behaviors like thrift and avoidance of debt are desirable, because they are consistent with ethical standards of personal behavior.
In both cases, what seems desirable appears highly improbable.
But, in addition to the right legal and regulatory framework to ensure appropriate links to the national economy – which is also lacking in most of the region – the search for desirable investors requires an effective foreign investment promotion agency.
This requires investigation of markets and trends, and identification of specific firms that would be desirable for the clusters or niches that the country wants to promote.
Seniors need to be encouraged to seize these opportunities, even if it requires them to take a break from full-time employment, though on-the-job training is also a desirable option.
Bulldogs suffer several health problems, including breathing difficulties, because of the way they have been bred, and Dalmatians often cannot hear, because the genes that produce their desirable spots also can produce deafness.
Okin suggests that it would be desirable for people to switch to smaller, herbivorous pets.
He knows enlargement will happen, and does not want to stop it; for Germany it is desirable that neighbors to the East, like those to the West, be allies.
Some claim that it is not only acceptable; it is desirable.
To be sure, large deficits can be benign or even desirable during recessions and wars, or when used to finance productive public investments; and in a deep, long-lasting downturn, with interest rates at or near zero, a well-timed, sensible fiscal response can theoretically help in the short term.
Dogs are also more likely to obey a command to leave something desirable alone if their master stays in the room than if he steps out.
Whether this would really be a desirable procedure is hotly debated; but the fact is that multi-speed integration already exists in the sense that Britain and Denmark are not now, and may never be, members of the euro.
The first is comprehensive tax reform aimed at aligning tax policy with desirable economic incentives.
It is neither feasible nor desirable for Europe to establish itself as a geopolitical equal or competitor of the US.
European leaders also must do more to stem rising anti-Americanism, so that they remain able to work with the US when they judge it to be desirable.
The extension of human rights is a worthy goal, to be sure, but Vasella's saccharine altruism brings to mind economist Milton Friedman's reproachful observation that "businessmen believe that they are defending free enterprise when they declaim that business is not concerned 'merely' with profit but also with promoting desirable 'social' ends; that business has a 'social conscience' and takes seriously its responsibilities forproviding employment, eliminating discrimination . . .
Given this, it is likely – indeed, desirable – that “Asia for Asians” will remain a mere slogan.
But this does not mean that breaking up the euro would be desirable, or even tolerable.
It is no accident that the “New World, New Capitalism” symposium was held in France, where some critics have seen the global financial crisis as necessary and desirable precisely because it is producing this change in values.
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