In England he was received as an honoured guest, and while everywhere he insisted on the desirability of preserving the ties between England and her colonies, he asked always that they should be allowed to work out their own salvation ; " the softer the cords " he said " the stronger will be the union between us ".

Victoria is also in the process of making the use of such methods of transportation more desirable ( in a push towards a more " green ", eco-friendly environment ), by offering incentives to use such modes of transport, such as parking spaces in the downtown core specifically designed for vehicles " or less " in wheelbase size, thus fostering the desirability for ownership of vehicles such as Smart Cars, motorcycles and small displacement scooters.

In economics and especially macroeconomics, the effects of proposed policy actions, such as fiscal policy changes or monetary policy changes, are simulated to judge their desirability.

The morality and desirability of such technologies are being debated.

Opinions in the U. S on the desirability of such intermixing, including that between white Protestants and Irish Catholic immigrants, were divided.

In 1940, soon after World War II began in Europe, the U. S. Congress legislated the Alien Registration Act ( aka the Smith Act, 18 USC § 2385 ) making it a crime to " knowingly or willfully advocate, abet, advise or teach the duty, necessity, desirability or propriety of overthrowing the Government of the United States or of any State by force or violence, or for anyone to organize any association which teaches, advises or encourages such an overthrow, or for anyone to become a member of or to affiliate with any such association "— and required Federal registration of all foreign nationals.

Some studies limit the number of fantasies entered ( such as only the most frequent ones ), and respondents may not write down all of their fantasies anyway -— they may forget infrequent fantasies, not want to write too many down, or be more subject to social desirability bias than with a checklist.

Cost – benefit analysis is often used by governments and other organizations, such as private sector businesses, to evaluate the desirability of a given policy.

The desirability of the cul-de-sac street type among home buyers is implied by the evidence that they often pay up to a 20 % premium for a home on such a street, according to one study.

When he forwarded the treaty to Aberdeen, Pottinger remarked, " the retention of Hong Kong is the only point in which I have intentionally exceeded my modified instructions, but every single hour I have passed in this superb country has convinced me of the necessity and desirability of our possessing such a settlement as an emporium for our trade and a place from which Her Majesty's subjects in China may be alike protected and controlled.

: to consider the desirability of constructing a lift with basins and all other requisite works for the interchange of traffic between the River Weaver and the North Staffordshire Canal at Anderton and of applying to Parliament for an Act to authorise the construction of such works ....

Due to the desirability of this outdoor space, buildings may be designed with such setbacks on more than one of its uppermost levels, to allow apartments on several levels to feature such terraces.

The obvious remoteness of such a possibility, and its mainstream comic appeal, was testimonial to the broad popularity and desirability of Fairchild at the time.

Since car usage becomes endemic and public transport often becomes significantly more expensive, city planners are forced to build large highway and parking infrastructure, which in turn decreases taxable land and revenue, and decreases the desirability of the area adjacent to such structures.

It is a scale in which a subject rates a target person on dimensions such as intelligence, knowledge of current events, morality, adjustment, like-ability and desirability as a work partner.

This scale seems to be directly related with other measures of social attraction such as social choice, desirability ratings as a date, sexual partner, or spouse, voluntary physical proximity, frequency of eye contact, etc.

The first, characterized as primarily socioemotional, included variables such as liking, desirability of the target's inclusion in social clubs and parties, seating choices, and lunching together.

In succeeding months, the PDC became the leader of the opposition, to such an extent that it was exerting strong influence within such organizations as the Civic Crusade, an organization from which Guillermo Endara had drawn his strongest support and which called for a plebiscite to decide on the desirability of Guillermo Endara remaining in office.

" A central line of this way of thinking is that logic is contaminated by psychological variables such as " wishful thinking ," in which subjects confound the likelihood of predictions with the desirability of the predictions.

It is usually functionally equivalent to a simple inverted form of another kind of voting: rather than voting " for " one votes " against " a list of candidates-usually one ( as in first past the post voting ), but if one can disapprove of as many as one chose, or rank them in order of desirability for exclusion, disapproval voting becomes functionally identical to approval voting and some ranked voting systems respectively.

This may be indicative of a market preference amongst the more wealthy to reside in areas of less ethnic mixture ; less ethnic mixture being perceived as increasing the value and desirability of a residential area.

Another possible explanation would be that obese individuals do not eat more than the others while having meals due to social desirability.

Instability in Eastern Europe and integration in Western Europe increased the desirability of regularizing intrabloc relations in a more elaborate institutional framework.

Respondents may avoid using extreme response categories ( central tendency bias ); agree with statements as presented ( acquiescence bias ); or try to portray themselves or their organization in a more favorable light ( social desirability bias ).

Designing a scale with balanced keying ( an equal number of positive and negative statements ) can obviate the problem of acquiescence bias, since acquiescence on positively keyed items will balance acquiescence on negatively keyed items, but central tendency and social desirability are somewhat more problematic.

For several months in 1929, Martin Quigley, Joseph Breen, Father Daniel A. Lord S. J., Father FitzGeorge Dinneen S. J., and Father Wilfred Parsons ( editor of Catholic publication America ) discussed the desirability of a new and more stringent code of behavior for the movies.

This makes the task of determining the validity of the various alleged Hokan languages and the various alleged Penutian languages all the more difficult point up once again that diffusional studies are just as important for prehistory as genetic studies and what is even more in need of emphasis, it points up the desirability of pursuing diffusional studies along with genetic studies.

The reason alcohol is weighted more heavily than would otherwise occur is due to two reasons, see at paragraph, ( a ) " based on the principle that alcohol is metabolized in the same pathway as fat " ( treats alcohol as having 9 calories per gram ) and ( b ) " based, in part, on the desirability of discouraging consumption of alcohol, due to the ill-healthy effects associated with this nutrient " ( weights alcohol more than other sources of calories ).

The desirability of the multicart to consumers is that it provides better value, greater convenience, and ( in the case of portable games ), more portability than the separate games would provide.

Based on these experiments, the Royal Navy concluded that aircraft were useful aboard ship for spotting and other purposes, but that interference with the firing of guns caused by the runway built over the foredeck and the danger and impracticality of recovering seaplanes that alighted in the water in anything but calm weather more than offset the desirability of having airplanes aboard.

Opponents of all " corrective surgery " on abnormal genitalia suggest we should be attempting to change social opinion regarding the desirability of having genitalia that look more average, rather than performing surgery to try to make them more like other peoples '.

As communication with the goldfields in the interior became more important, and the desirability of the town becoming a staging post increased, it spread down onto the plains around the river.

Her writings in latter decades became decidedly more sympathetic to socialist and labour politics, and many of her later articles discussed the desirability of a new social order based on socialist and Christian principles.

By contrast, the American historian John Lukacs approved of Broszat's call for " historicization ," but also suggested " that the ' historicization ' of the Third Reich had begun more than thirty years before Professor Broszat pronounced its desirability.

The desirability of being able to vary the valve opening duration to match an engine ’ s rotational speed first became apparent in the 1920s when maximum allowable RPM limits were generally starting to rise.

However, every able adult has the obligation to perform some socially useful work as a requirement for receiving reward, albeit in the context of a society providing free health care, education, skills training, and the freedom to choose between various democratically structured workplaces with jobs balanced for desirability and empowerment.

Although Chinese nationalists have agreed on the desirability of a centralized Chinese state, almost every other question has been the subject of intense and sometimes bitter debate.

" They question the possibility and the desirability of such moral agreement, pointing out that " almost every social issue involves moral dilemmas, not moral clarity.

After this time, inscriptions on the Han bronze mirrors, as well as other writings, emphasized the desirability of keeping one's self at the center of the universe, where cosmic forces were strongest.

Evaluations of beauty may well be linked to desirability, perhaps even to sexual desirability.

During the trip, Stans killed two bongos, and after this, their desirability among wealthy hunters rose substantially.

As with many degrees, the reputation and ranking of a program may factor into the desirability of a degree holder for either employment or graduate admission.

Sometimes a new and popular application arises which only runs on one platform, increasing the desirability of that platform.

Sovnarkom recognized the desirability of including five representatives of the Left Socialist-Revolutionary faction of VTsIK.

Some effects of alcohol intoxication are central to alcohol's desirability as a beverage and its history as the world's most widespread recreational drug.

The price conveys embedded information about the abundance of resources as well as their desirability which in turn allows, on the basis of individual consensual decisions, corrections that prevent shortages and surpluses ; Mises and Hayek argued that this is the only possible solution, and without the information provided by market prices socialism lacks a method to rationally allocate resources.

* statements assuming moral rightness or desirability of a state (" she is happy ") with those that verify the difficulty of determining the state (" she smiles a lot, she seems happy, she would say something if her husband made her angry ", etc.

Well executed they are undoubtedly highly spectacular, but the risk of dropping the ball is so great as to make the practice extremely hazardous and its desirability doubtful.

Helico had worked in Rome as a craftsman and then returned to his home north of the Alps with a dried fig, a grape, and some oil and wine, the desirability of which caused his countrymen to invade northern Italy.

Posthumanism is sometimes used as a synonym for an ideology of technology known as " transhumanism " because it affirms the possibility and desirability of achieving a " posthuman future ", albeit in purely evolutionary terms.

The government, most of the Slovenian polity, shares a common view of the desirability of a close association with the West, specifically of membership in both the European Union and NATO.

Transhumanism, abbreviated as H + or h +, is an international intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.

In 1918, when Theodore Roosevelt was entertaining plans ( later abandoned ) to reprise his presidency, he considered Harding had strong potential to run and serve as Vice President, and discussed with Harry Daugherty the desirability of having Harding on his ticket.

This unexpected situation made a strong case for the desirability of studying a planet from orbit rather than merely flying past.

Courtier and journalist Dermot Morrah alleged that there was brief speculation as to the desirability of bypassing Albert ( and his children ) and his brother, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, in favour of their younger brother Prince George, Duke of Kent.

Two years later he pointed out for the first time the frequent desirability of resolving a compound motion into motions of translation and motion of rotation.

Some biases affect decision-making, where the desirability of options has to be considered ( e. g., Sunk Cost fallacy ).

Murray and Millet wrote that Raeder's views on the desirability of starting a war with the United States were " astonishing " because neither he nor anybody else in the Seekriegsleitung saw fit during the period July – December 1941 to commission studies on what would be the strategic consequences of war with the United States.