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‘Characteristics can be undesirable.’

[⟨det (plur characteristic.n)⟩ undesirable.a]

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Therefore, this protects sensitive equipment, material, & products from fogging, corrosion, & other undesirable characteristics resulting from the effects of water vapor.
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However, those engines didn’t like to idle below 1,500 rpm, weren’t very tractable and exhibited undesirable characteristics like vapor lock in hot weather.
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Holistically, evidence points to Evan Bayh as having the least undesirable characteristics of the four candidates, so Evan Bayh will probably be the vice – presidential nominee.
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Some have been bred by people over generations to have undesirable characteristics.
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Pure deltas fell out of favour somewhat due to their undesirable characteristics, notably flow separation at high angles of attack (swept wings have similar problems), and high drag at low altitudes.
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The SD II was flown competitively against the Heinkel HD 37 in 1929 and was found to have highly undesirable handling characteristics.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

There are numerous fining agents available and the winemaker chooses certain ones to target specific problems such as bitterness, haze, off aromas or colors or other undesirable characteristics.
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These characters were assigned undesirable characteristics having nothing to do with their political opinions, such as being romantically involved with a main character’s love interest.
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A three member Eugenics Board composed of a psychiatrist, a social worker, and a judge, was given the duty of authorizing the sterilization of any institutionalized person who was deemed capable of propagating undesirable social characteristics.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

His amenable obedience will remove a small portion of those undesirable characteristics.” “You hope to enslave him to your will, “Adric snarled, shaking his head.
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It is also often said that votes for a “protest candidate” or a “compromise candidate” can be viewed as disapproval votes, since the undesirable characteristics of the incumbent or alternative, respectively, can be said to be the voters’ main concern.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Packaged with all the necessary cables to connect with a computer or stereo playback system, along with software to remove clicks, pops, and other undesirable characteristics of vinyl, the TTUSB is a comprehensive package that breathes new life into older recordings.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Screening out undesirable characteristics But medical professionals today also risk being placed into positions that may cross their personal ethics in other ways where eugenics is creeping into medicine.
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This projection, according to the argument, is manifested in the form of attribution of undesirable characteristics of the self to the conspirators.
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By using electrical control circuits combined with computers, designers can save weight, improve reliability, and use the computers to mitigate the undesirable characteristics mentioned above.
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Numerous adjustments, including the addition of a greatly enlarged single vertical tail unit and increasing the wing incidence, failed to remedy its undesirable characteristics, which included a vicious stall and unsatisfactory rates of roll and yaw.
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For livestock and wildlife, the process of culling usually implies the killing of animals with undesirable characteristics.
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However, the voltage divider approach suffers from several serious flaws: These and other undesirable characteristics of the voltage divider approach to high – side current shunt measurements conspire to force its use in only the most cost – sensitive situations and where accuracy is not a consideration.
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See the case of “Buck v. Bell”, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that three generations of idiots is enough and that the state could force sterilization of those who will pass on socially undesirable characteristics to their offspring.
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Queried on 2013-05-19.