Sentence examples for a desire of from inspiring English sources

"Harm to an enemy is only a desire of less-sophisticated individuals.

There, "master of 30,000 volumes," he could indulge a desire of some years to turn to historical writing.

I think he was more expressing a desire of wanting to do better, as we all do".

It is simply a desire of the Shipping Adm. and of ship owners to make a seaman's life bearable.

But it has also thrived because Mr. Adelaja has tapped into a desire of people in formerly Communist countries to learn entrepreneurial skills and make money.

In the report's account, Ms. Fateh said she agreed to marry Bin Laden in 2000 because "she had a desire of marrying a mujahid".

They were crossing the border to satisfy an illicit desire of a different sort: one for pirated satellite television.

"I never had a strong desire of performing as a conventional drag queen," he says.

This was a sad love, an impossible desire of spirit for matter.

This cultural disability can be cured by cultivating a renovated desire of future worlds.

By Jill Lepore Early in life, Adams owned up to "a strong Desire of Distinction".