desideratum

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• In other words, the insurance industry is calling for that great progressive desideratum: a huge, global public-works program.

• The greatest desideratum of fiscal hawks is for the government to take in as much money as it spends.

• To produce and to sell securities in the greatest possible quantity—that was the desideratum.'

• Now this expedience is the desideratum to be sought, either without the experience of means, or with that experience.

• If there be a moral, a political equality, this is the desideratum in our Constitution, and in every Constitution in the world.

• Fine binding is a desideratum, and, for its cost, that of the Procrustes could not be improved upon.

• But this would not hinder the new experiment from becoming insignificant in its turn and giving place to a new desideratum.

• Scarcely any of these are now out of employment; and we are in possession of his desideratum.