But desirable though chastity and constancy might be (and achievable, too, if the under-15 data are reliable) they cannot do the job alone.

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So, desirable though some of Mr Gore's proposals may be (such as breaking up impersonally large public schools into smaller units), they are not enough.

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Such a chain reaction would be highly desirable, though, given the recent hardening of attitudes by both sides in the Iranian talks, it may be rather a lot to expect at this stage.

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The vice-president also wondered aloud whether Israel might launch an attack of its own on Iran in order to ensure its own security, though he added that a diplomatic outcome was highly desirable.

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And that is exactly why, even though its original value proposition is largely gone, cloud computing is still much more desirable than building an in-house IT apparatus.

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