"The statements, by a prominent member of the Australian parliament about our major trading partner, risk significant damage to Australia's standing as a natural destination for foreign investment and have the potential to materially damage our reputation as a desirable trading partner," said a statement from the group's chief executive, Innes Willox.
A Yahoo-Google partnership, which is likely to face antitrust scrutiny, could make Yahoo a less desirable partner or takeover candidate for Microsoft.
"After all, people have little to lose by messaging a more desirable partner online.
Someone who has social smarts and empathy is a more desirable partner, because they will care about others' feelings.
Member states' politically motivated foreign policy agendas on aid direction and distribution, and the history of military involvement in decision-making processes in the UN, have contributed to a hesitancy on the part of INGOs to consider them as true humanitarian agencies, or as desirable partners.
On the other hand, it could mean that people try to find slightly more attractive mates – which results in the same pattern as the most desirable partners pair off, followed by the next most desirable, and so on.
As the act of love has been to him merely an aspect of aggression, even the sight of a desirable sexual partner brings on intolerable nausea.
The U.S. business should have arranged the process so that the prospect of a deal with the most desirable Mexican partner would function as its BATNA in talks with the second most desirable partner, and so on.
As a desirable (to the N.R.A).
