Sentences with phrase «great desideratum»
In an 1886 report on the railroad industry, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Interstate Commerce agreed, stating clearly that the «great desideratum is to secure equality.»
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The emphasis on individualism is partly at expression of metaphysics but it is also a reaction to societies in which greater freedom of self - expression and personal autonomy was a real desideratum.
instead of employing manufactured products or educts, such as zinc and acids, we could realise as electricity the whole of the chemical force which is active in the combustion of cheap and abundant raw materials... we should obtain one of the greatest practical desiderata, and have at our command a mechanical power in every respect superior in its applicability to the steam - engine.