Sentence examples for perceived as desirable from inspiring English sources

Specific techniques were used in interviews to lessen this effect and the finding that many qualitative comments supported the significant effects found using validated and reliable survey instruments gives more confidence that the interview comments reflected young people's views and experiences not simply a desire to be liked and to say what may have been perceived as desirable.

Sometimes those factors are not particularly positive: in the Philippines and Sri Lanka, Morley explains, female academics have been able to rise up the career ladder because the profession isn't perceived as desirable, prestigious, or sufficiently well-remunerated by men.

"Or you could tell the truth: 75% of women are shaped like that, and soft, rounded hips and thighs and bellies were perceived as desirable and sensual without question until women got the vote".

"Or you could tell the truth: 75% of women are shaped like that, and soft, rounded hips and thighs and bellies were perceived as desirable and sensual without question until women got the vote". Ouch!

Objective measures of eligibility — appearance, earning power, age — are understood to determine whether individuals will be perceived as desirable commodities (the six-foot-two investment banker; the communications director with a good decade of childbearing years still ahead of her) or relegated to the remainder bin, shopworn by blind dates and disappointments.

"This will help them be perceived as desirable".

The patron may wield authority that the client may seek to tap into to access what he or she perceives as desirable.

In fact, it has only worsened the problem by pitting parent against parent for the few schools they perceive as desirable.

We also explore the opportunity context facing non-state actors who promote sustainable intensification (referred to as green niche actors), as well as the strategies they employ to navigate this context and lever change in the direction they perceive as desirable.

The job is desirable because it is widely perceived as glamorous.

In Tanzania, as well, it has been suggested that especially overweight and obese women are perceived as beautiful; they are admired and respected, while skinniness is associated with illnesses, especially HIV/AIDS, and, therefore, is not desirable.