Sentence examples for think desirable from inspiring English sources

But she added that "it's very difficult to find the basis in the Constitution for saying" lawmakers do not have the right to set the limit even if "it's longer than one might think desirable".

Consider a kind of tolerance we think desirable: say, allowing other adults to decide what clothes they will wear.

It's longer than one might think desirable MR. LESSIG: Right.

Policy cannot recreate a pristine coastal environment even if that were thought desirable.

By 1971, however, Lin and the army may have amassed more political authority than Mao thought desirable.

All the options for greater integration involve a transfer of sovereignty that, until recently, few would have thought desirable or even possible.

Given widespread adoption of the Nuss procedure, prospective multicenter study of management of pectus excavatum by both the open and Nuss procedures was thought desirable.

In its 1990 Recommendations, the ICRP indicated that it believed that the standards of environmental control needed to protect man to the degree currently thought desirable would ensure that other species are not put at risk.

Egalitarianism is a protean doctrine, because there are several different types of equality, or ways in which people might be treated the same, or might relate as equals, that might be thought desirable.

(Eli is not the first, and certainly not the last, person of either gender or orientation so desperate to be thought desirable that he will tolerate an abusive relationship).

In 1996, when sufficient funds had been accumulated, the Commission invited applications to "do anything they thought desirable... to support worthwhile causes which would mark the year 2000 and the start of the new millennium".