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It'd probably be great to have on if one were to be, say, experimenting with hallucinogenic mind altering substances, but other than that it leaves a lot to be desired.
But as the lead character in a film he leaves a lot to be desired.
I love a good drama and this one left nothing to be desired.
Somehow, I guess this movie was meant to be clever and refreshing, but the implementation leaves so much to be desired that this movie ends up being a two-hour sleep-inducing affair.
R.G. Arledge's lax, ham-fisted direction strikes out in every conceivable department, thereby sinking this leaden bomb to an unforgivably schlocky sub-level of rank amateurishness: the sluggish pacing, putrid acting, wafer-thin cardboard characters, ill-judged stabs at lowbrow humor, the huge letdown creature (it's some heavy-stepping zhlub in a rubber ghoul mask and black gorilla costume), weak off-screen killings, and dissatisfying sudden'n'senseless ending all leave a great deal to be desired.
To show you just how virulent Jeremy can be, he points out to Portifoy(..and for extra slander, he uses "Portifoy" nearly every sentence with a sneer)how his mother worked her fingers to the bone without ever asking Uncle for a dime and that he always desired to live the good life, but needed the means to do so.
In the 1920’s, Swedish economist Knut Wicksell defined it as the interest rate at which, economy-wide, desired investment equals desired savings, implying no upward pressure on consumer prices, resource prices, or wages as aggregate demand outruns supply, and no downward pressure on these prices as supply exceeds demand.
The target path for nominal GDP can be set at whatever level of monetary discipline is desired.
According to former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, when the desired level of investment is below the desired level of savings despite a nominal interest rate of zero, chronically deficient demand constrains GDP and productivity growth, producing so-called “secular stagnation.”
It is merely a first step toward a desired end – and entirely meaningless unless the second, third, and all subsequent necessary steps are taken.
The result is the desired deterioration of the producer’s terms of trade and the maintenance of full employment.
Civilizing the Marketplace of IdeasCAMBRIDGE – “When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths,” US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in a famous dissenting opinion in 1919, “they may come to believe…that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas – that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.”
The US and India need not be formal allies for their relationship to have the desired effect on Chinese strategic calculations.
But when the new legal framework demanded the creation of working state institutions that took time to create, quick reforms often had less than the desired effect.
If income becomes too concentrated too quickly, desired investment will tend to fall short of available savings, creating a Keynesian macroeconomic imbalance.
The recent failure of the Bank of England’s guidance to move markets in the desired direction might mean that investors are more optimistic about the British economy.
But translating good intentions into desired outcomes will depend crucially on the government's ability to push through complementary and urgently needed reforms on hot-button regulatory issues like land, labor, and the environment.
If there is one universally desired “good” in which the US specializes, it is the dollar.
If equal opportunity for all is what is desired, a situation must be created whereby talented students from poor families receive, through stipends and tuition exemptions, a truly free education, including some funds for books and accommodation, while less talented students from well-to-do families pay the full cost of their studies.
It is true that Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt spoke in their wartime "Atlantic Charter" about the right to freedom from want and fear (whatever that may mean), and Thomas Jefferson said that all men have the right pursue their "happiness," but such so-called "rights" can never be made into more than desired goals.
Tusk reiterated this position just before the recent informal European Council summit in Bratislava – the first not to include the United Kingdom – declaring that “giving new powers to European institutions is not the desired recipe.”
If expansionary policies fail to have the desired effect of lifting inflation to the predefined level of around 2%, they do not question their models; they simply increase the policy dosage – which is just what markets expect.
In a broader context, Hungary's re-integration into western institutional structures is proceeding steadily if not at the desired pace.
Ironically, the properties of nanomaterials that may create concern, such as nanoparticle uptake by cells, are often precisely the properties desired for beneficial uses in medical applications.
Unfortunately, rates of breastfeeding and breast-milk consumption are well below desired levels.
Putin fits the desired mould for a firmness and stolidity that ensures stability, a strong state, and a "golden middle" between radical reforms and strong-arm rule.
Aid cutoffs regularly fail to produce desired political results for at least two reasons.
Even a unanimous vote in the United Nations Security Council condemning the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and demanding access to the crash site has failed to produce the desired results.
This is not because they wish to play that role; rather, it is because higher asset prices are essential if central bankers stand any chance of delivering the desired economic outcomes of higher growth and stronger job creation.
At that point, perhaps, Putin will be ready to move against Ukraine to secure his own desired long-term outcome.
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