This hasn't stopped me from cherishing an idea of what I want, and from feeling I've failed when I don't get it.
Intelligence sources believe that while a one-off attack on the mainland, an idea cherished by the terrorists, is possible, they are incapable of sustaining a major campaign on the other side of the water.
A people such as the British, where all sides of politics cherish the idea of a sovereign national parliament, cannot envisage such an institution coming into being.
Based on an idea she had cherished for years, it opened in 2005 and traveled to the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
Readers cherish the idea that a boy neglected in the everyday world has magical powers and fancy lineage in a parallel, enchanted realm.
I cherish the idea of a young man on his proa, setting out from Surabaya, chanting: "Frisch weht der Wind/ Der Heimat zu,/ Mein Irisch Kind/ Wo weilest du?" Walking down the street, in Berlin I passed a street pole which, like most street poles in cycling cities, had a bike locked to it.
Israeli Jews are equally caught up in their own cultural civil war involving the ultra-orthodox, who cherish the idea of a state ruled by the religious prescriptions of the Torah and the Talmud, rather than by civil law and civil rights.
On the rare nights when they occur in a theatre, it's possible to cherish the idea that you're in the presence of a class act.
Americans cherish the idea that they live in a country that pulls up the downtrodden, protects the weak, and provides equal opportunity for all to succeed.
Even moderate religion is a menace, because it leads us to respect and "cherish the idea that certain fantastic propositions can be believed without evidence".
