Some of Marcus's moral judgments are batty, including his claim that wrongdoing harms the agent more than the victim (is that true of rape, torture or murder?) and his idea that sins committed from desire are worse than those committed in anger (which makes it worse to sleep with your neighbour's wife than to stab her to death).
Underneath his calm demeanour there's a real determination to play at the top level, and we're happy that he's committed that desire to trying to achieve his goals with Cardiff City.
De Flores, as proof he has committed the desired murder, presents Beatrice-Joanna with an unequivocally phallic finger.
As a contracting party to the Ramsar Convention, which entered into force in the country in 1992, Peru committed to "desiring to stem the progressive encroachment on and loss of wetlands now and in the future", and to "promote the conservation" and "as far as possible the wise use" of wetlands.
A learning-based theory of desire is committed to holding that a desire can exist in a creature that cannot, by its nature, move or feel; so long as it can represent and learn in a certain way (and so long as these capacities are appropriately related), that suffices for a creature to have a desire.
But intelligence officials said they were struck by the detail in recently uncovered evidence, showing Al Qaeda to be focused, patient, disciplined and committed in its desire to attack prominent American targets.
Plato does include some preludes – e.g. those to laws pertaining to murders that are especially heinous in that they are fully voluntary and committed out of desire for pleasure, envy and so on – that work primarily by rhetorical means or appeal to myths that Plato probably did not accept as literally true (e.g. 870D-871A).
The idea is to help women find the type of healthy, happy, committed relationship they desire by infusing the entrepreneurial spirit, mindset and approach into their search for love.
Another mistake, perhaps committed out of the desire to avoid staging a show trial, was to let Bo defend himself and turn the courtroom into a political stage.
By parading a handful of children before news agencies in the service of defending school privatization, charter school leaders reveal more about their desire to appear committed to diversity than about their genuine commitment to it.
