Mr. Levin, the Armed Services Committee chairman, said he detected substantial desire among his Republican colleagues to force a change in Iraq.
After just one week of this newspaper's "campaign for democracy", it has become clear that there exists a real desire in this country for substantial electoral reform.
As the practice has become more commonplace, in addition to about 300 training programs in the US, respectable and sometimes even revered institutions of higher learning have gotten in on the act, with universities such as Harvard, Stanford, NYU and Columbia offering coaching classes or certificates for those with a substantial budget and a desire to learn.
For example, you might be offered a substantial financial reward for desiring something bad, or an evil demon might (credibly) threaten to kill your family unless you do so.
She first read it as an ambitious 17 year old, immediately identifying with "a young woman's desire for a substantial, rewarding, meaningful life".
The sense of value for money offered by a longer book used to be a consideration in the days of commercial sagas, literary agent Clare Alexander admits, and may still influence some readers today – but she says this desire for a substantial read doesn't explain the growth in the literary novel.
"The Fed desires both a substantial and sustainable improvement in labor market conditions and is likely to read recent payroll growth as a positive step in the right direction, but just one step in a longer journey," said Michael Gapen, director of United States research and global asset allocation at Barclays Capital.
This commitment to research was bolstered by foreign development assistance, but ironically the Thai NGOs experience of receiving foreign development assistance actually increased their desire to establish a substantial stable domestic source of funding.
We subsequently agreed a substantial compensation package with Spurs, although our overwhelming desire would have been to retain the manager.
