Sentence examples for eager to wind from inspiring English sources

Petty seemed eager to wind up his publicity tour ahead of the impending visit by the president.

With the United States eager to wind down in Afghanistan, Washington needs Pakistan more than ever, a factor that would play into the general's next moves, said Gen. Javed Ashraf Qazi, a former director general of Pakistan's chief spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, or ISI, who met with General Kayani recently.

Republicans grumbled that the controversy was fanned by Democrats eager to wound an incoming majority leader after they had suffered big losses in the midterm election.

Eager to win approval and affection?

Those would include Chinese provinces eager to buy wind equipment, European municipalities upgrading their water purification equipment and utilities seeking new power storage systems, he said.

Texas is in the midst of a wind-power boom, and at the heart of it lies a conundrum: While plenty of ranchers are eager to host wind turbines, few want the unsightly high-voltage transmission lines needed to carry the power to distant cities running through their property.

She's a poignant work in progress: gawky, eager, quick to blush, easy to wound and — the grace note of this performance — with a generosity that makes her lovable.

They're eager to again feel the wind at the back of the middle class.

In fact, organizers at the Peggy Siegal Company had so many people eager to see the movie, they wound up scheduling two screenings that evening, one at 6 and another at 8 30.

Is it not to say to future ages that out of our gratitude to those who died and to those who were ready to die, we were eager to give to the winds and suns of heaven if that would speak us best all that we had or ever hoped to have?

Indeed, while her siblings display a certain forced and watchful attention, she is easy, unconcerned, eager to throw caution to the wind.