Sentence examples for anxious to project a from inspiring English sources

As it prepares to host the Olympic Games in Beijing next year, it is anxious to project a softer image.

Government officials in Manama are anxious to project a new sense of stability: the next Formula One Grand Prix is to be held in November 2012 and banking confidence is holding up – but restoring calm at home looks hard.

For a man anxious to project an image of strength, the impression is of uncharacteristic hesitation.

The Group of 8 leaders, anxious to project an image of cooperation after the corrosive disagreements over Iraq, said they were confident of a global economic recovery, probably in the second half of this year.

On May 3rd police shot dead a man who took a child hostage in a residential area of the capital.The recent violence has come at a bad time for the government, anxious as it is to project a positive image during the six-month World Expo in Shanghai, which began on May 1st.

At those times feeling like a fraud amounts to more than the stirrings of an anxious temperament or the desire to project a protective humility.

"I'm anxious to make a play.

"They're going to be anxious to prove a point.

Groom is anxious to meet a great painter.

John Cleese, in particular, seemed anxious to make a break.

Why is he so anxious to get a divorce?