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Bright moon phases are bad for meteor showers as they wash out the dimmer meteors, a full or almost full moon dominates one part of the sky, making that part undesirable for observing meteors. The full moon also lasts the entire night, leaving no hours of complete darkness, which is preferred. – Mike Hankey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
China needs levers to deter Taiwan from taking undesirable courses of action, especially independence-leaning initiatives, for these levers to be potent, China must( 1) have the( military) capabilities to activate them if needed, and( 2) the threat to do so must be credible in the eyes of Taipei. – Lionel Fatton	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Not only do we have to plan for these undesirable water outcomes, but we also have to get our act together and reduce greenhouse gases as fast as we can. – Brad Udall	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Climate change is water change, and many of the worst impacts we're going to see out of climate change are through changes in the water cycle, not only do we have to plan for these undesirable water outcomes, but we also have to get our act together and reduce greenhouse gases as fast as we can. – Brad Udall	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Some of these officers have reported threats to their safety and that of their family.Officers may also believe that they will be ostracized by their peers, retaliated against in various forms, like being given undesirable assignments, or that they could be terminated from their jobs for an infraction that would not normally result in termination, all of these concerns have a chilling effect on an officers willingness to report misconduct. – Juliette Gust	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The United States has a long history of limiting or outright excluding people based on what the government deemed undesirable, this undesirability was based on race, nationality or any number of reasons the government classified as a' defect.' These were the people who could not enter The United States legally. – Michael Innis-Jiménez	Found on CNN 4 years ago
For a long time, opponents of abortion have charged that abortion threatens those deemed undesirable in society, in arguing that Indiana's law that bans abortion based solely on race, disability or sex, could one day pass legal muster, Thomas is harkening back to the eugenics movement of the early 20th century. – Johanna Schoen	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Iraqi government, parliament and current political activists in the country are undesirable for the Americans ... and they are plotting to remove them from Iraqi politics. – Ali Khamenei	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Survey researchers have long known that peoples' desire to present themselves in a positive light may lead them to understate socially undesirable behaviors and overstate socially desirable behaviors, some people who give inaccurate answers on surveys may know they're distorting the truth, but many people probably do it unconsciously. – Marta Murray-Close	Found on CNN 5 years ago
That is highly unusual and highly undesirable. – Andrew Cameron	Found on CNN 5 years ago
For decades sterilization was used as a way to control populations considered ‘undesirable’ — immigrants, people of color, poor people, those with mental illnesses and disabilities, tying Ms. Creel’s sentencing to her sterilization formalizes the coercion — the threat of a harsher sentence is manipulative and dangerous, and aligns with a legacy of eugenic practices through the U.S. – Eesha Pandit	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Projecting militants is undesirable but a blackout does not serve the public interest, for public accountability it is important that carefully edited information on militants is aired so that the public can assess the efficacy of state operations against terrorism. – Raza Rumi	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The focus inevitably shifts to what sort of monetary policy reaction to anticipate, with the central bank governor previously stating that a headline inflation rate in excess of the MPR (benchmark interest rate) is undesirable, expectations of tightening are likely to build. – Razia Khan	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
With the central bank governor previously stating that a headline inflation rate in excess of the MPR (benchmark interest rate) is undesirable, expectations of tightening are likely to build. – Razia Khan	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It would be entirely undesirable from my point of view. – Tony Mullins	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Things like talking when you weren't supposed to be talking, fidgeting with some kind of object on your desk, standing around the room and moving at not great times, all of those undesirable behaviors decreased by incredible amounts, it was pretty amazing. Kids that you might have to talk to sometimes on more than an hourly basis to refocus them or redirect them, you no longer had to do that. – Jennifer Emmolo	Found on CNN 8 years ago
For Washington, any scenario with Rajapaksa back in power - even merely as an MP - is undesirable. – Michael Kugelman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The law on undesirable organizations is the latest in a series of highly restrictive laws that limit the freedom of Russian citizens, this law, as well as its predecessors, contravenes Russia's own constitution as well as numerous international laws and treaties. The true intent of these laws is to intimidate and isolate Russian citizens. – National Endowment for Democracy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have good rock geologists in Singapore who can build caverns, the idea is to make the city more liveable by putting everything undesirable underground. – Jian Zhao	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I am also acutely aware of the many challenges faced by the people of the city who either are forced or choose to live on the sidewalks, in unsanitary and unsafe conditions, their living conditions are undesirable from not only their perspective, but also that of the people of the city who walk, drive, own a business, live in a house or attend a school next to them. – Mayor Kirk Caldwell	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Their living conditions are undesirable from not only their perspective, but also that of the people of the city who walk, drive, own a business, live in a house or attend a school next to them. – Mayor Kirk Caldwell	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A leaky gut is bad because all these undesirable things go from the gut into the bloodstream, and they screw up the immune system. – Charles Mackay	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
A large number of young people having such undesirable attitudes toward violence against women - including girls themselves - is alarming, these are school-going and college-going students – they’re not uneducated or non-literate people. These are people from cities, not even rural areas... These attitudes that students are displaying are potentially what they are absorbing from society at large, from their families. – Manjunath Sadashiva	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is an undesirable assignment by most accounts, we don’t feel the plane, but on any given day, I can kill somebody. That’s the absolute truth. It’s no less real. – The RPA pilot	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

Bright moon phases are bad for meteor showers as they wash out the dimmer meteors, a full or almost full moon dominates one part of the sky, making that part undesirable for observing meteors. The full moon also lasts the entire night, leaving no hours of complete darkness, which is preferred.

– Mike Hankey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China needs levers to deter Taiwan from taking undesirable courses of action, especially independence-leaning initiatives, for these levers to be potent, China must( 1) have the( military) capabilities to activate them if needed, and( 2) the threat to do so must be credible in the eyes of Taipei.

– Lionel Fatton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Not only do we have to plan for these undesirable water outcomes, but we also have to get our act together and reduce greenhouse gases as fast as we can.

– Brad Udall

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Climate change is water change, and many of the worst impacts we're going to see out of climate change are through changes in the water cycle, not only do we have to plan for these undesirable water outcomes, but we also have to get our act together and reduce greenhouse gases as fast as we can.

– Brad Udall

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Some of these officers have reported threats to their safety and that of their family.Officers may also believe that they will be ostracized by their peers, retaliated against in various forms, like being given undesirable assignments, or that they could be terminated from their jobs for an infraction that would not normally result in termination, all of these concerns have a chilling effect on an officers willingness to report misconduct.

– Juliette Gust

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The United States has a long history of limiting or outright excluding people based on what the government deemed undesirable, this undesirability was based on race, nationality or any number of reasons the government classified as a' defect.' These were the people who could not enter The United States legally.

– Michael Innis-Jiménez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

For a long time, opponents of abortion have charged that abortion threatens those deemed undesirable in society, in arguing that Indiana's law that bans abortion based solely on race, disability or sex, could one day pass legal muster, Thomas is harkening back to the eugenics movement of the early 20th century.

– Johanna Schoen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Iraqi government, parliament and current political activists in the country are undesirable for the Americans ... and they are plotting to remove them from Iraqi politics.

– Ali Khamenei

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Survey researchers have long known that peoples' desire to present themselves in a positive light may lead them to understate socially undesirable behaviors and overstate socially desirable behaviors, some people who give inaccurate answers on surveys may know they're distorting the truth, but many people probably do it unconsciously.

– Marta Murray-Close

Found on CNN
5 years ago

That is highly unusual and highly undesirable.

– Andrew Cameron

Found on CNN
5 years ago

For decades sterilization was used as a way to control populations considered ‘undesirable’ — immigrants, people of color, poor people, those with mental illnesses and disabilities, tying Ms. Creel’s sentencing to her sterilization formalizes the coercion — the threat of a harsher sentence is manipulative and dangerous, and aligns with a legacy of eugenic practices through the U.S.

– Eesha Pandit

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Projecting militants is undesirable but a blackout does not serve the public interest, for public accountability it is important that carefully edited information on militants is aired so that the public can assess the efficacy of state operations against terrorism.

– Raza Rumi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The focus inevitably shifts to what sort of monetary policy reaction to anticipate, with the central bank governor previously stating that a headline inflation rate in excess of the MPR (benchmark interest rate) is undesirable, expectations of tightening are likely to build.

– Razia Khan

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

With the central bank governor previously stating that a headline inflation rate in excess of the MPR (benchmark interest rate) is undesirable, expectations of tightening are likely to build.

– Razia Khan

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It would be entirely undesirable from my point of view.

– Tony Mullins

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Things like talking when you weren't supposed to be talking, fidgeting with some kind of object on your desk, standing around the room and moving at not great times, all of those undesirable behaviors decreased by incredible amounts, it was pretty amazing. Kids that you might have to talk to sometimes on more than an hourly basis to refocus them or redirect them, you no longer had to do that.

– Jennifer Emmolo

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For Washington, any scenario with Rajapaksa back in power - even merely as an MP - is undesirable.

– Michael Kugelman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The law on undesirable organizations is the latest in a series of highly restrictive laws that limit the freedom of Russian citizens, this law, as well as its predecessors, contravenes Russia's own constitution as well as numerous international laws and treaties. The true intent of these laws is to intimidate and isolate Russian citizens.

– National Endowment for Democracy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have good rock geologists in Singapore who can build caverns, the idea is to make the city more liveable by putting everything undesirable underground.

– Jian Zhao

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I am also acutely aware of the many challenges faced by the people of the city who either are forced or choose to live on the sidewalks, in unsanitary and unsafe conditions, their living conditions are undesirable from not only their perspective, but also that of the people of the city who walk, drive, own a business, live in a house or attend a school next to them.

– Mayor Kirk Caldwell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Their living conditions are undesirable from not only their perspective, but also that of the people of the city who walk, drive, own a business, live in a house or attend a school next to them.

– Mayor Kirk Caldwell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A leaky gut is bad because all these undesirable things go from the gut into the bloodstream, and they screw up the immune system.

– Charles Mackay

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

A large number of young people having such undesirable attitudes toward violence against women - including girls themselves - is alarming, these are school-going and college-going students – they’re not uneducated or non-literate people. These are people from cities, not even rural areas... These attitudes that students are displaying are potentially what they are absorbing from society at large, from their families.

– Manjunath Sadashiva

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is an undesirable assignment by most accounts, we don’t feel the plane, but on any given day, I can kill somebody. That’s the absolute truth. It’s no less real.

– The RPA pilot

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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