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Undesirable in sentence

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The second is undesirable because it buys stability at the cost of growth.
Drug approval and use requires a careful weighing of desirable and undesirable effects.
Countries that are undesirable to refugees, owing to high cyclical unemployment, would benefit disproportionately from such a policy, especially in the short term.
As a result, anyone who considers the status quo undesirable, unacceptable, or unsustainable has had to take an anti-European stance.
So you might think that US industries exposed to severe international price competition would deem the dollar's strength undesirable.
A reversible-bond system would essentially eliminate the costs to governments of undesirable migration, while allowing them to reap the benefits of desirable migration.
These undesirable consequences of the expansion of world markets have assumed alarming proportions within a relatively short period of time.
International trade and new firms are undesirable, because they undermine associations’ power.
It acts as a subsidy on the production of tradable goods (which is desirable), along with a tax on their domestic consumption (which is incidental and undesirable).
The problem is that pre-announced hikes in tax rates or administered prices can have the undesirable effect of building annual price increases into public perceptions, undermining the central bank’s inflation-fighting efforts.
So let me exercise my right as an outsider with a stake in what happens to express a clear opinion: From my perspective (and that of many other Americans), a decision by the United Kingdom to exit the EU would be undesirable – indeed, highly undesirable.
It would be impractical and socially undesirable to depend on labor mobility to help overcome temporary shocks, and an independent monetary policy can do little to address the permanent shocks that labor mobility can ameliorate.
In 1954, then-Senator John F. Kennedy wrote a long, fascinating article in The Atlantic in which he attributed this undesirable dislocation in New England to tax subsidies in southern states.
Such discretion is both unnecessary and undesirable.
And ethnic nationalism unleashes emotions that are almost always undesirable.
Rather, we should work from the premise that poverty in particular, and inequality in general, is simply undesirable.
Moral criticisms of the market focus on its tendency to favor a morally deficient character type, to privilege disagreeable motives, and to promote undesirable outcomes.
Accepting pessimists – often center-right voters who are doing fine but are worried about the future – believe that shaking up the system is impossible or undesirable, so they grudgingly accept their country’s diminished prospects.
For example, a decision needs to be made as to whether the transfers go to each citizen or each household (a yearly check for each person in the family may have undesirable consequences on fertility as parents have children to collect checks).
Unfortunately, in the short run it is seldom politically feasible to reduce significantly the number and effect of undesirable laws and regulations.
But, as the World Bank has pointed out, negative rates can have undesirable effects.
And yet Republican administrations have persisted in pursuing unsustainable and undesirable tax cuts benefiting primarily the rich, leading to ever-larger deficits and trillions of dollars of additional public debt.
They both argued in the 1930s (in the middle of the Great Depression!) that government efforts to boost employment would always result in undesirable and unwarranted inflation, and would probably reduce output in the long run.
I continue to believe that the benefits of QE are no longer significant and that the low level of interest rates is driving investors and banks to take undesirable risks.
Undesirable systems, such as dictatorships and saline landscapes, can be very resilient.
Moreover, evidence shows that migrants contribute more than they appropriate, as they foster knowledge transfers, trade, tourism, investment, and even job creation through entrepreneurship, while doing important jobs – from caring for children and the elderly to staffing hotels and restaurants to picking crops – that are undesirable to locals.
Overall, however, the undesirable effects of more variable and extreme weather are likely to overshadow any benefits.
While it is unreasonable – and indeed undesirable – to expect that women will agree on all issues or be equally gender-sensitive in their politics, it is fair to assume that a female leader’s ideas will be informed by her unique experiences.
If the women are injured or become undesirable, the men consider it acceptable to resell them.
From China’s perspective, a nuclear-armed North Korea is undesirable, but still less problematic than the potential breakdown of order in the country, which could produce an influx of refugees into China and bring American troops closer to China’s border.
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