You could suggest that, if mistakes and controversy are good, maybe we should send referees out drunk and blindfolded that way, we'd have even more of a good thing.
Making a mistake was perhaps a good thing as it made me feel more human and a good representative of young people - we know we don't always get it right!
Given the high reoffending rate, and the fact that many leave prison jobless, homeless, addicted and without family support or probation supervision, a community sentence that involves more positive handling of their offending and addiction must be a good thing.
But we think more screens, more availability of the content is probably a good thing.
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After years when many young people scorned private enterprise and chose professional and public-service careers instead, it is surely a good thing that more of them should plump for jobs that contribute directly to economic growth.
The continuing reluctance to engage to the greatest possible extent in flexible market-based ways of reducing emissions not only makes control of greenhouse gases vastly more expensive than it would otherwise be (a good thing, admittedly, in the view of many environmentalists).
And in a world where more and bigger is typically better, this vast pool of information seemed like a good thing.
This 401(k) legislation was rooted in the belief that permitting investors to have more input on numerous aspects of their retirement savings was a good thing.
If governments react to freedom movements by immediately moving to limit internet access, you can be sure that getting more internet access into the hands of the people is a good thing.
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"At the end of the day, having more banks coming in is generally a good thing, " said Mr. Bruning.
That's a good thing, since team officials are growing more leery of participating in the secondary ticket business.
Indeed, the camera controls are much more like those of a digicam than a cellphone -- which is definitely a good thing.
The increase in the number of corporate forms is a good thing: a varied ecosystem is more robust.
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However, for the vast majority of art buyers and prospective art buyers, surely more price transparency would be a good thing.
So, while there are usually any number of problems that could crop up and it is probably a good thing to be aware of them, it is more important to be able to objectively identify what is driving the market at any given moment.
Giving states more flexibility is a good thing especially when it comes to the administration of Medicaid.
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More people playing your title however, regardless of skill level, can probably only be a good thing.
That could mean that even if we never face an attack of airborne anthrax or smallpox, funding more research into treatments for infectious disease will be a good thing.
In terms of Russia, itself, I find myself wondering more and more whether the extent of the late 2008 and 2009 collapse in gross domestic product has been a good thing in some respects.
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Recent debates over granting President Bush Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), according Communist China permanent "Normal Trade Relations" status and permitting taxpayer subsidized trade with Cuba have all implicitly, if not explicitly, shared a dubious conviction: Since overseas commerce is an inherently good thing, the more of it the better.
So if HMV's demise signals a rising incidence of banks and other creditors being more ruthless in putting lame companies out of their misery, that might in a fundamental sense be quite a good thing.
We have a couple of young lads in who are very good, but we need more younger people to keep the thing going.
In 2003, for the first time, more than half of Europe's citizens told pollsters that their country's membership of the EU was not a good thing.
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