5 sentences with “desirability”

Voltaire was a profound sceptic about human nature, despite his belief in the existence and desirability of reason.

Most male intellectuals continued to insist on the desirability of female submission and, with a few major exceptions, most of the literature and philosophy of the period was written by men.

Also, the one thing the bourgeoisie and the working class had in common was a belief in the desirability of the right to vote; by the end of the century universal suffrage for men was on the horizon (or had already happened, as in France in 1871) in almost every country in Europe.

Liberals also believed in the desirability of an elected parliament, albeit with a restricted electorate: almost universally, liberals of the time thought that the vote should be restricted to those who owned significant amounts of property, thus (they thought) guaranteeing social stability.

Greg Connolly, director of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Tobacco Control Program, puts it another way: "If we could convince smokers of the desirability of eradicating smoking from my workplace and that involuntary inhalation of tobacco smoke can be harmful to their loved ones, they would be much more likely to quit.