Sentence examples for common wish from inspiring English sources

The most common wish is made by those not lucky enough to live here.

"Holding the Olympics in 2008 is the common wish of all Chinese," said Beijing's deputy mayor, Liu Jingmin, who is chief of the bid committee.

Nini's mother says she wishes she had killed the girl at birth (a common wish in Li's fiction), and twisted boys look for children's bodies to make perverse use of.

In these times of financial meltdown and international turmoil, all Americans of good will — Republicans, Democrats, independents, blacks, whites, Asians, Latinos, Jews, Christians, Muslims — share a common wish for President Obama and our nation to succeed.

"The upcoming trip reflects a common wish of the two nations to improve ties," Xinhua, China's official news agency, said in an editorial published on the eve of her arrival.

"Our common wish and goal is that one day, we could walk [Ledra], as well as all of Cyprus, from one end to the other without having to go through procedures".

Although books are a common wish-list item, organizations have asked for everything from basketballs to power saws.

On Thursday night, the official New China News Agency reported, an unidentified mainland official said, "Some posters and slogans put up by some organizers of the rally are improper and go against the common wishes of Hong Kong residents for seeking stability, development and harmony".

Because the product sold by the business is the family itself, "The Crown" can play as if Francis Ford Coppola had radically restructured "The Godfather" so that its only elements were the wedding and the christening, with the slaughter of the latter sequence recast so that the murders are all symbolic — losses of face, denials of freedom, royal refusals of common wishes.

Celtic midfielder Kris Commons wished Samaras well for the future and, most immediately, when representing his country in Brazil this summer.

It's opponents are very diverse but have one thing in common: the wish not to govern with it (the FN).