Instead of agreeing to broad aspirations, it would have been more worthwhile to use the goals to highlight specific, more achievable investments.

But it is a worthwhile risk.

Chip Conley Measuring what makes life worthwhile

Such sacrifices, however, would be well worthwhile.

We need to recognize that what really matters isn t buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives.

Encouraging them to do more, and giving them reasons to do more, is certainly a worthwhile task for the Indian government and an overt goal of the annual conclave.

Needless to say, neither candidate thought it worthwhile to put forward a proposal to assist the more than one billion people living in extreme poverty.

I think it is worthwhile to see this film twice.

It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

The two cannot really be compared One is a safe choice, but not likely to have a huge impact the other is riskier, but ultimately may be more worthwhile.

With President Barack Obama recently taking up some of these themes in his second inaugural address, it is worthwhile to examine the message of Inequality for All more closely.

But the protests are worthwhile for another reason they are good for Israel.

It is worthwhile to consider these limitations of GDP as a measure of wealth.

I believe it might be worthwhile for future negotiations to explore this option further.

Although any initiative that succeeds in bringing alternative remittance systems into better view is worthwhile, the Monitoring Team believes that there is scope for more coordination between source States and receiving States.

Some workers whose productivity was too low to cover their cost will now be hired, as firms will find it worthwhile to expand output above the level resulting from the increased working time itself by investing more capital and hiring more workers.

More important, the higher dollar amount would make the effort of returning the phone worthwhile for a much larger proportion of the population, regardless of whether they identify with the goal of preserving resources.

There will be no worthwhile American offer on the environment until there is a deal in Congress.

The above mentioned programme produced many worthwhile lessons and is a very useful model for future use.

As its population begins to shrink, it may even be worthwhile to shut down unviable cities and consolidate.

Despite these problems, prosecuting genocide might be worthwhile if it were the only way to hold mass murderers accountable.

Notwithstanding some worthwhile gains in the past decade, much needs to be done to reach a satisfactory level of preparedness.

(f) Improve monitoring, assessment and reporting through processes that are perceived as worthwhile and relevant to the needs of countries.

This makes it more worthwhile for businesses to invest in expanding their capacity, thus trading away cash they could distribute to their shareholders today for a better market position that will allow them to reward their shareholders in the future.

And I actually really feel that it's worthwhile to spend my valuable and limited time on this Earth in this way.

And he finished his talk with the phrase, that, The gross national product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

Like all worthwhile PR efforts, the MDGs served to raise awareness, galvanize attention, and mobilize action all for a good cause.

Real reductions in carbon emissions will occur only when better technology makes it worthwhile for individuals and businesses to change their behavior.

Perhaps, but can t children be encouraged to do things because they are intrinsically worthwhile, rather than because of fear of parental disapproval?

However, the majority of respondents expressed the opinion that being a member of a municipal or provincial council is a worthwhile experience.

It would be worthwhile exploring the nature of the treaty in question, because it was an objective criterion facilitating the determination process.

Finally, one cannot overemphasize the need to mobilize the support of the international financial institutions to make a worthwhile investment in peace.

From a rational perspective, this idolizing of Diana is as absurd as any cult. Granted, she used her prominence to promote worthwhile causes.

How crazy is that? That our measure of progress, our dominant measure of progress in society, is measuring everything except that which makes life worthwhile?

I believe, if Kennedy was alive today, he would be asking statisticians such as myself to go out and find out what makes life worthwhile.

We don't really know why scytodes needs such a tough dragline, but it's unexpected results like this that make bio prospecting so exciting and worthwhile.

Making money gives us something to do that feels worthwhile, as long as we do not reflect too much on why we are doing it.

Paragraph 69 and the first seven lines of paragraph 74 reflect our views, but it would be worthwhile to take into account paragraph 72 also.

At a later stage, it will be possible, and extremely worthwhile, to elaborate a more expansive and comprehensive commentary on the Principles which would encompass all of the relevant international law, as well as other applicable standards, which may be helpful in the interpretation of these Principles.

The five day approach developed and followed by UNEP in Samoa and recently used in the Caribbean seems worthwhile to pursue, in particular for LVC countries.

It is also worthwhile noting the role played by regional epidemiological networks in the harmonization of data collection and in providing training and resources to countries.

What makes something worthwhile for me is the people I work for or with, the conditions I work under and the audience that I'm able to reach.

In a poorer America, fewer businesses would find it worthwhile to entice secondary workers from families into the labor force, and perhaps 500,000 net jobs would disappear.

To be sure, it is worthwhile to foster healthy behavior, which will lower costs and improve many people's lives. But how far do we want to go?

At the outset of this new round of consultations, it seems worthwhile asking ourselves Why does that issue prompt such priority interest? There are three possible explanations.