Sentence examples for american desires from inspiring English sources

"LA is this embodiment of 20th-century American desires: the houses, the gardens, the tans, all slightly fake.

Then as now, Mr. Arafat was seeking to comply with what he perceived to be American desires.

Expansionists eager to acquire Spanish Florida were part of the drive for the War of 1812, and many historians argue that American desires to annex Canada were also an important part of the equation.

In Moscow, a spokesman for President Dmitri A. Medvedev declined to comment in advance on the agreement, but Russian news reports have carried highly critical comments on American desires to deepen ties with Ukraine and Georgia.

I was taken on a tour of the company's HQ and shown three stories of cookers, pianos, even motorbikes – each household's belongings stuck on a pallet and wrapped in clingfilm, forming a ghostly museum of prosaic American desires.

But this peaceful outcome depended largely on factors absent today: recognition by the ruling power of the time that, having no strong allies near the United States and facing a bigger threat from another rising power closer to home, it could not constrain the rise of the challenger and should instead accommodate American desires as much as possible.

It satisfies a healthy American desire to throw the bums out occasionally.

Obama will carry with him into the White House the periodically recurring American desire to be better.

Gone is the exuberant American desire to lead in the world.

They will understand what unites Hispanics is an American desire for opportunity.

First, the tryptophan myth reflects a uniquely American desire to understand and control the world.