Sentence examples for desire to count from inspiring English sources

That question included the famous choice between Vice President Al Gore's desire to count "dimpled chads" and other arguable indicia of an intent to vote, and Governor Bush's desire to count only clear ballot punches.

Just as they did when Democratic lawyers tried to disqualify hundreds of military absentee ballots, Republicans quickly branded Mr. Gore a hypocrite for proclaiming his desire to count every vote as his lawyers were seeking hand recounts in select Democratic strongholds.

Suppose I desire to count all the blades of grass in the lawns on this road.

Assuming that counting grass blades is irrational because it is pointless, fulfilling the desire to count grass blades is not intrinsically good.

But the bare fulfilment of my desire to count all the blades of grass in the lawns on this road does not (Rawls 1971: 432; Parfit 1984: 500; Crisp 1997: 56).

Imagine a brilliant Harvard mathematician, fully informed about the options available to her, who develops an overriding desire to count the blades of grass on the lawns of Harvard.

Even if D.C. desired to count all the sea shells washed up onto America's beaches as part of our gross domestic product, it would not increase the amount of tax receipts to the government by a single penny.

Consider, for example, Rawls' famous example of the man whose main desire is to count blades of grass.

The elections, Packer says, show, despite "all the horror, the tragedy, the death, this persistent desire to be counted".

She's simply testing Thomas's "maleness" — that is, his desire to be counted on, to be admired, to be "Daddy".

The vague feminism of our grandmothers was about their desire to be counted not only as wives and mothers, but also as equal partners in life outside home and society salons.