Sentence examples for merely desirable from inspiring English sources
The existence of alternatives is not merely desirable but necessary: both philosophical and political fact.
Flexibility is not merely desirable but also necessary if cultural property is to serve the public as fully as possible.
In this context, that means aligning aspirations with available assets, and distinguishing between interests that are vital and those that are merely desirable.
This is part of a plan to find out which genes are necessary to yeast's survival, and which merely desirable, by knocking them out.
If it means putting economies on a war footing, so be it.If, on the other hand, these aims are merely "desirable" rather than vital, then that's fine too.
In many broad-banded problems, computational efficiency is not merely desirable but absolutely essential to resolve the complex interactions between wave components with widely varying length-scales and different directions of propagation.
Just as he could never accept that a decent system of ethics would be more likely to arise in a school for mentally handicapped children than among any intellectual élite, no matter how attuned to the Transcendental, he could never accept that peace is not a principle, merely a desirable state of affairs.
Each kind of power may be acquired, lost, or held in certain ways: for example, the efficacy or strength of authority may be 'perfect' (complete, exceptionless, enforceable) or 'imperfect' (limited, flexible, merely hortatory or desirable), as may the force of rights; and the rest of DJN is essentially an account of how this occurs in the different areas (spaces, or states) of life.
Policies to subsidise education or health care were desirable not merely for their own sake but also because they would help people break out of poverty.The growth of "conditional cash transfers", schemes like Brazil's Bolsa Familia that give poor people money as long as they send their children to school or have them vaccinated, are logical developments of these ideas.
In another covenant case, the Michigan Supreme Court discounted efforts to use the Charter, saying "these pronouncements are merely indicative of a desirable social trend and an objective devoutly to be desired by all well-thinking peoples".
