How To Use Desideratum In A Sentence

  • Since even the desideratum of practical coherence is subject to such re-specification, this holistic possibility really does represent an alternative to commensuration, as the deliberator, and not some coherence standard, retains reflective sovereignty Moral Reasoning
  • In his view, avoiding ‘social dissension’ is more than a policy desideratum or a prudent aspiration.
  • For small companies, where centralized management is not a desideratum, this solution may be feasible.
  • “Plain English” such a one will call his desideratum, as one might call the viands on a Mankind in the Making
  • It enshrines the essential desideratum of popular criticism - it only criticizes other people.
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  • A good depilatory is still a desideratum, the best perfumers of London and Paris have none which they can recommend. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Imposed management is a necessary desideratum, as 11.3 million ha of mature forest land is being lost annually.
  • And, surely, such a "desideratum" may best be effected by a careful perusal of the manuals to be included in the present series. Musicians of To-Day
  • Imposed management is a necessary desideratum, as 11.3 million ha of mature forest land is being lost annually.
  • The concept that has replaced efficiency as the great desideratum in genetic coding is error-tolerance, or robustness.
  • If saving human lives is the great desideratum, then there is more to be gained by prevention of drowning and auto wrecks than by the abolition of war.
  • Some of the champions of the "rights of women," in our day, apparently commit the error of inverting the real desideratum, which is, to make men renounce and love like the finest women -- not to make women exact and fight like the coarsest men. The Friendships of Women
  • Although taxonomic stability may be a desideratum, in reality taxonomic stability is a manifestation of scientific stagnation.
  • The adjective, of course, is adminicular 'auxiliary, corroborative', which I intend to use whenever maximum obfuscation is a desideratum. Languagehat.com: ADMINICLE.
  • Did we know the influence of cold in limiting the expansibility of the elementary gases, we might approximately determine the mass of a comet, from the size of its nucleus; but this is a problem that has never yet been solved; and astronomers ought to avail themselves of every indication which promises to realize this great desideratum. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
  • This immature zygote holds it as the ultimate desideratum to consort with the dominate aborigine of the trifurcate variety. The Rolling Stones
  • Many think it a desideratum in metaethical theorizing that a candidate theory be consistent with all or most normative theories actually defended by serious normative ethical proponents. Boys in White Suits
  • Where, in the case of certain exhaustible natural resources, conservation is a prime desideratum, the benefit principle could be implemented through a severance tax in lieu of at least part of the land value tax.
  • -- Upon some future occasion we shall perhaps take an opportunity of stating what is in our opinion the great desideratum which is still to be supplied in the art of education considered simply in its _intellectual_ purposes -- viz. the communication of knowledge, and the development of the intellectual faculties: purposes which have not been as yet treated in sufficient insulation from the _moral_ purposes. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
  • Our ships should be the best of their kind - this is the first desideratum.
  • This was the great desideratum of the machine as first brought over to this country and shown in Hyde Park; nor have our implement makers, though they introduce some important improvements, succeeded in supplying the want this indicated.
  • As no longer an order imposed by nature, it is clear that subjective freedom is an essential desideratum: the relation of marriage must of all things be between self-consciously free individuals.
  • A global world is a place where, for once, the desideratum of moral responsibility and survival coincide and blend.
  • Plain English" such a one will call his desideratum, as one might call the viands on a New Cut barrow Mankind in the Making
  • With regard to this motor, engineers and electricians had been approaching more and more to that desideratum which is known as a steam horse in a watch case. Robur the Conqueror
  • The only social desideratum from the perspective of justice might be some H, but a principle of fairness might constrain the way H is allocated, such that it’s not required to feed everyone to the Utility Monster, if there are any in the society. Happy Happy Happy
  • New Testaments, and the idea that shall reconcile all as so many several forms, and as it were perspectives, of one and the same truth -- this is still a 'desideratum' in Christian theology. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Where subsistence is doled out, the desideratum has been achieved, of general want and a superior power to "relieve" it. You've gone to the best schools, gotten the best grades, now why can't you get a good job being a good person for a good salary?
  • The early presidents, it seems, were all devotees of Scripture who deemed the Bible a desideratum for both governor and governed.
  • With no social contract (the desideratum of the advocates of the social), there can be no social relations, and therefore no social.
  • Conversely, once cultural exposure is established as an urgent desideratum, can areas of inquiry like biblical criticism continue to be viewed as off limits?
  • In a conversation with Mr. Gladstone in 1887, he referred to the enormous power and responsibilities of the United States, and suggested that a desideratum was a new unity between our two countries. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
  • Meinong calls a genuine object of desire a desiderative and a desideratum [Desiderat], respectively. Salvation Santa

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