Applicable both to CPD and to the workplace, the series of competences articulated as desiderata for the trainee as part of the work - based learning scheme being piloted by Nottingham Law School and others do, I suggest, go a long way towards providing such implementable steps for lawyers at any stage of their careers. (newlawjournal.co.uk)
The «post-AIDS» era of the gay male subculture has been marked by a terribly uneasy attitude toward the preceding pre-AIDS era, and has seen the male subculture become something of a caboose on the train of feminism, with ambiguous and sometimes bogus issues of political correctness and the emulation of mainstream — white, middle class — goals and lifestyles being promoted as desiderata. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Let me add that it is the great desideratum by which this form of government can be rescued from the opprobrium under which it has so long labored, and be recommended to the esteem and adoption of mankind. (politics.stackexchange.com)