CONS: Having smaller rooms on the ground floor and narrow steps on indoor stairwells might not be desirable for a family with small children.
In modern society, price is probably a good proxy for such collective wisdom.However, goods can be desirable for a reason other than survival value.
It may be desirable for a pension fund to achieve a more consistent performance, even if its average return is lower.
It was not until the fourth and fifth centuries, when the Church came under the influence of Egyptian and Syrian ascetics, that sexual abstinence was considered to be desirable for a priest.
It may be desirable for a software engineer to move from job to job, notes Robert Walton, a Calpers assistant executive; "for teachers, firefighters, nurses, engineers, that isn't the type of work force you want". Stability is a virtue.
Of the 12 new OS X features the company has been emphasizing on its Web site, most would be desirable for a hand-held phone, including chat capabilities, mail, an address book, calendar features, automatic networking and a synchronization feature that will become available in September.
Expressions for flowrate versus pressure gradient are desirable for a-priori prediction and for substitution into continuum models.
He adds that it would be desirable for an experienced lawyer to chair every inquiry, rather than just the more complex cases, as happens now.
Clearly it would be desirable for an account of truthlikeness to be able, in principle, to rank propositions that go beyond the expressive power of first-order sentences.
Reaching a major party consensus on budget repair is desirable for a number of reasons.
