Sentence examples for not 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 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.

The emphasis, however, and the basis for arguing that increased capacity was not merely desirable but imperative, was on a second, fairytale future, in which passengers double, under the auspices of comprehensive and globally enforced carbon trading.

The launch issue's leader manifesto by its editor, Daniel Johnson (brother of Channel 4's Luke, who's on the advisory board), declares that "to defend and celebrate western civilisation is not merely desirable; it is imperative".

Twenty years ago, John Blacking argued persuasively from his experiences as a musician, anthropologist and Africanist, that "the development of the senses and the education of the emotion through the arts are not merely desirable options.

Revolution was not just desirable but necessary.

Intention is not merely predominant desire.

The Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations took the view that economic, social, and cultural rights were not really rights but merely desirable social goals and therefore should not be the object of binding treaties.

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.

But he added: "Given the urgency of this whole matter it would seem not merely appropriate, but highly desirable on any view, that the legal arguments could resume on Monday.