"I was trying to make sure that the government of Yemen did not do anything undesirable and to let the tourists talk to their families," he said.
If there was anything undesirable about the old system, it was that Twitter did a poor job of explaining it, not that the functionality itself was unwanted.
Why Is it that strong-willed women are illustrated as being heartless and unemotional, or anything undesirable, but women who rely on men are loving, fun, and cool?
Background Check Besides poring over your application package, boards do their own research to find out whether you're hiding anything that might make you an undesirable neighbor.
That people still don't accept this is owing, I think, to a very old cultural narrative which has long encouraged the idea that too much education -- too much anything, really -- makes a woman undesirable.
Anything less is deemed odd and undesirable.
If anything, Mr. Holland understates two of the prickly maestro's highly undesirable qualities we Philadelphians suffered throughout his tenure here: his contempt for American audiences, whom he still views as interested only in entertainment, and his failure to ever record a single work that would be considered definitive in the Philadelphia Orchestra's discography.
Anything dangerous, wild, unkempt, ancient, jaggy and difficult to grasp thus becomes undesirable or of such a low priority in the drive to look and feel like everyone else that it is allowed to wither.
After the publication of Orientalism set off a firestorm of criticism from every angle of the east-west divide, Said declared, in a retrospective essay, that "the orient-versus-occident opposition was both misleading and highly undesirable; the less it was given credit for actually describing anything more than a fascinating history of interpretations and contesting interests, the better".
3) Waiting for a train in Marseille, France, I kissed a stranger with a black eye and an "undesirable" stamp in his passport after he offered to steal me "anything in the station".
The fact that Americans are outraged by oppressive governments, but lack a realistic theory of how stable governments come into being, means that it is easy to generate political support for attacking undesirable states and organisations, but hard to generate support for building anything to replace them.
