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- noun Plural form of
desirable .
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Examples
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The city is cited in a number of texts (under the name of Tadmor) as having been built by King Solomon, and with Roman conquest grew to be an extremely prosperous and elegant city, with a key part to play in the importation of desirables from the East to the Roman empire.
The Romance of Zenobia's Palmyra Heather McDougal 2008
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Among those desirables is that captured prisoners not get tortured, but as Damian says, we cannot lose sight of the importance of the mission, and we cannot allow it to fail just because we could not bring the level of humanitarianism in Kandahar up to a standard Canadians are comfortable with.
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Among those desirables is that captured prisoners not get tortured, but as Damian says, we cannot lose sight of the importance of the mission, and we cannot allow it to fail just because we could not bring the level of humanitarianism in Kandahar up to a standard Canadians are comfortable with.
Solutions To The Torture Issue In Afghanistan « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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The city is cited in a number of texts (under the name of Tadmor) as having been built by King Solomon, and with Roman conquest grew to be an extremely prosperous and elegant city, with a key part to play in the importation of desirables from the East to the Roman empire.
Archive 2008-04-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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Something like the 'No False Scotsman' fallacy, where instead of progressively shrinking and qualifying a definition to keep out undesirables, it gets expanded more and more to pull in desirables.
Blind Faith? 2009
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People who try to achieve the same look only to fit in to the 'desirables' which the media states.
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In effect, our conservation agenda is a form of racism which divides the animal kingdom into "desirables" and
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In effect, our conservation agenda is a form of racism which divides the animal kingdom into "desirables" and
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* Sea fishing (with 4! 's) and buying a boat is high on Mr. 's list of desirables
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* Sea fishing (with 4! 's) and buying a boat is high on Mr. 's list of desirables
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