Sentence examples for collective wish from inspiring English sources

This might not do those things, but I think part of the rhetoric is a collective wish or desire for something that would.

No animosity was towards Djokovic; instead a shared and vocal desperation to see Federer keep his mission on track; a collective wish to be part of history.

The people who have flooded Internet message boards for months with calls for the cancellation of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" may be getting their collective wish.

We see evidence of this in popular Russian support for the post-Soviet government's various aggressions, predicated on a collective wish to reclaim lost ascendancy.

Optimists about the wisdom of democratic crowds perceive a collective wish for checks and balance; some of us darker souls see a country paralyzed by moneyed special interests, and at war within itself.

Created by Sheri Elwood with a refreshingly original conceit, the series uses Mr. Priestley's youthful soap-star persona to play on a collective wish that high-school peaking and good looks can serve only as a gateway to dissipation.

We only had two customers — ourselves — and we iterated according to our collective wishes.

But doing the same thing over and over is a merely a collective death wish made policy.

Mr Orbach said the retailers must have a "collective death wish" to reduce their wares to such "ludicrous" levels, bookseller.com reported.

But here graphene is perhaps a victim of its own success: it's such strange, interesting stuff that there's almost a collective cultural wish to believe it can do anything.

He rejects company research which suggests that some customers will be drawn to smoke despite the health risks because of a collective "death wish".