Sentence examples for the desirable that from inspiring English sources

"The country of the tourist pamphlet," Nadine Gordimer wrote in "A World of Strangers," "always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful".

A condominium, even one just a few blocks from the desirable downtown, that is listed for $300,000, for example, may sell for as little as $200,000.

At a workshop titled "Reinventing the Workplace," the desirable quality that came up most frequently among the 70 or so leaders who attended was authenticity.

Cell cultures used in cancer research share many of the desirable traits that make microorganisms ideal for studying evolution.

4 10 In other words, the desirable condition that is commonly referred to as 'good governance' depends heavily on securing adherence to the rule of law.

Schools could make the "desirable" efficiencies that the department judges feasible or could make spending choices that put educational outcomes at risk," he said.

The notion that the desirable activities are those that bring a profit has made everything topsy-turvy.

They were all so specific about their requirements (single-leg above the knee being the most desirable) that I put my hopes of ever finding a female cerebral palsy devotee on the shelf for a few years.

The foundation has not yet decided whether to sell the desirable space that the museum occupied on busy Michigan Avenue.

They exhibit the desirable property that a numerical change in the MFCC coefficients corresponds to a perceptual change.

The GF-based EDLC also provides the desirable stability that no degradation can be observed within 10,000 cycles.