In engaging with China over the question, MSCI has essentially used its massive influence over passive investors to induce market changes it finds desirable.
Simon Lebus, chairman of the OCR Oxfordd and Cambridge and Royal Society of Art) exam board, warned the move "could lead to a greater degree of political involvement in the education service which I think only a few people would find desirable".
Young people who are hired often fail to find desirable, high-paying jobs.
But there is much in the work to suggest that this jagged, flip-book quality is an effect that Japanese viewers find desirable and pleasurable.
For poverty reduction to be a priority, governments have to set themselves targets, not all of which they may find desirable.
Throughout history, we've used selective breeding to bring out traits we find desirable in everything from corn to cattle to the pets that perch on our shoulders and curl up in our laps, a technique I applied to humans in "Los Gigantes" (from the February 6 , 2012 issue of this magazine).
CL: Assuming that good looks and the ability to walk upright are near the top, where do you think photo-altering skills rank on the list of traits that women find desirable?
It is hypocritical to state that race considerations should be used to achieve certain diversity you find desirable, but race should not be a factor if it results in diversity that you do not support.
Imbellus works with employers to find desirable attributes in top performers and uses these as benchmarks.
This approach can be followed by other iterative (meta-) heuristics to find desirable solutions to optimization problems with noisy search space and possibly more than one objective.
