"What is still more important is unity of religious background," he added, and then made his point more explicitly: "Reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable.'' Eliot's powerful early poetry had already made this undesirability clear.
The boss of the world's second-biggest car company, and great-grandson of its founder, has confounded his critics with his musings on the undesirability of sport-utility vehicles.SUVs, as they are known, are basically small lorries tarted up with such comforts as power windows and comfy leather seats, and are wildly popular in America.
Sometimes considered a liberal and occasionally espousing libertarian ideas, he believed primarily in judicial self-restraint: the efforts of government to meet changing 20th-century social and political conditions should be restricted only on the basis of unconstitutionality rather than undesirability.
Conversely, a break-up of the euro fits far better with Conservative views on national sovereignty and the undesirability of creating a United States of Europe.
Ten years later, the social level of Marigold's attachments may have risen a little – the fees at St Brynhilda's start at £15,000 a year – but the taint of undesirability remains.
Baroness Buscombe said a free press is a central component of a healthy democracy and "the undesirability of a statutory press regulator is very clear".
To be a Clippers fan was to set myself up in opposition to the status quo, to be part of a club that was exclusive by virtue of its undesirability.
The characters repeatedly mention the dangers and undesirability of their urban Kansas neighborhood, but the closest thing to a crime that touches William King and his sons, Ennis and Malcolm, is the young men's playful temporary theft of a neighbor's garden gnome.
In the mid-1800s, middle-class Victoreformersrmers tried to impose an ideal of "rational recreation" on the urban working classes, whose intellectual, moral and physical undesirability was seen as a threat to the fabric of society.
For many reasons — low salaries, the undesirability of living in remote villages, poor morale, high rates of H.I.V. – teachers are often AWOL; World Bank studies found absenteeism to be about 20 percent in Uganda and the same in rural primary schools in western Kenya.
In the Pretty case Lord Bingham spoke of "the undesirability of anything which could appear to encourage suicide", citing concern that a change in the law on assisted suicide might encourage the elderly to take their lives.
