Sentence examples for chief desire from inspiring English sources

They had been dealt an impossible hand, it's true, and their chief desire, naturally, was to dissociate de Man's wartime writings from his later criticism.

The European men were hunted down and killed by residents on the island of Nosy Be, said Madagascar's police chief, Desire Johnson Rakotondratsima.

In the main, they learned, and still believe, that the chief desire of any politician is to get his front trotters in the trough and keep them there for as long as he can.

The idea of the programme, old, new and traditional, was to trace the two-way journey of Irish culture, from the period of the Rising when the chief desire was to "de-anglicise" and return to Gaelic roots, to the present: a country that is part of Europe and forges connections across the world.

From machines our chief desire is utility — whether to link us to the data we need or the people we desire.

Her chief desire, however, would be to stay put.

One of the chief desires of our time is to turn everything we touch into a reflection of who we are, how we live and how we want others to view us – and death is no exception.

Unless we all apply novel and adaptive thinking to the way we conduct our employment courtships and marriages, we're not going to successfully inspire our people, as global chief executives desire.

In any case where it is recommended that the application be set for hearing, where a novel question of policy is presented, or where the Chief, Media Bureau desires instructions from the Commission, the matter is placed on the Commission agenda.

In the diary entry of one of the British officers made on the day of Hale's execution, it was said: "He behaved with great composure and resolution, saying he thought it the duty of every good Officer, to obey any orders given him by his Commander-in-Chief; and desired the Spectators to be at all times prepared to meet death in whatever shape it might appear".

Since at least the Civil War era, when Secretary of State William H. Seward was more conciliatory toward the South than other cabinet members, the feuds have usually revolved around the chief diplomat's desire for diplomacy over military confrontation.