His most obvious qualification for the prime ministership was that he was unobjectionable, as well as being loyal to the president, Leonid Kuchma which others might consider a dubious recommendation.
That sounds unobjectionable (although by jacking up the amount of leverage that banks have, some argue that lower capital ratios simply send risk higher again).The trouble is that the accord hands much of the responsibility for assessing risks to credit-rating agencies and the banks themselves.
It also advocates being able to claw back money from former managers if the accounts have to be restated.Most of these ideas are unobjectionable.
The law as written seems fairly unobjectionable, but there are plenty of objections nonetheless.
Food-safety inspections, oversight of financial institutions, college scholarships for the poor, nutrition schemes for mothers and babies and other seemingly unobjectionable items would all be scaled down.
And in one of the noisy, mobile-phone-calls-permitted carriages of an intercity or international service, classes would be unobjectionable to non-participants and hugely useful to those learning.
Until recently its conduct had seemed largely unobjectionable.
Mr Kennedy suggests appointing "a panel charged with periodic evaluation of campaign statements, candor, and fairness," which is, by itself, unobjectionable.
The magnificent two in trouble Winter discontent Core messages Two can play Truculent ReprintsCrisis, what crisis?But while these preparations are unobjectionable in themselves, it may be a mistake for the government to invest so much, in terms of both resources and its own credibility, in avoiding another "winter crisis" in the health service.
Moreover, since a fog of indignation would surely rise in response to the completely unobjectionable fact that taxes on capital gains, interest and dividends aren't especially high, making public deliberation about taxation stupider than it already is, I won't be terribly disappointed if Mr Romney keeps his papers filed away.
But we forget how many old nouned verbs are now totally unobjectionable.
