As the afternoon wore on, Edward Bordonada, one of the scruffy men who had earlier asked what sorts of garbage were desirable, returned with a sound-equipment bag, a pair of elbow-length pink gloves, party coasters, and a woolen hunting hat.
We wanted a systematic method for evaluating science-based efforts, guided not only by instincts but also by realistic prospects of getting a desirable return.
Tell Ar-Rumman, like most areas in Jordan, suffers from excessive grazing pressure which, combined with drought, leads to the loss of desirable returning grasses and shrubs.
What is even more desirable than returning to an earlier state of things is the desire to maintain certain habits.
In a modern democracy, it is neither possible nor desirable to return to the Greek model.
It isn't possible, even if it may be desirable, to return to nineteenth-century international relations, in which nation-states made deals or went to war over pieces of turf without regard for the human beings living there.
Since its base is expensive and scarce vanadium, it is desirable to return this material into fusion power engineering after the reactor decommissioning.
It is often more desirable to return an approximate result with an acceptable margin of error quickly than waiting for the exact calculation for a long time.
This basic (value-laden) tenet of restoration i.e., that it is desirable to return to the historical reference is increasingly questioned in an era of multiple, simultaneous, and rapid environmental changes.
