Sentence examples for earliest desire from inspiring English sources

But, he told me in December: "I think the earliest desire that drove me to study consciousness was that I wanted, secretly, to show myself that it couldn't be explained scientifically.

His early desire to be a lady's man is all laid out here in wonderful prose.

A moralistic approach toward the Soviet Union undermined Carter's early desire to reduce East-West conflicts and cut nuclear arms.

Rather than unplug the Internet, Mr. Wen would show more wisdom by reaffirming his earlier desire for more transparency and disclosure.

Young Alex was thwarted in an early desire to become a captain in the Polish Navy, which he laid to anti-Semitism.

Alluding to the director's early desire to be a painter, she said that the "art world's loss is our great and lasting gain.

Reminded of his earlier desire to become a role model for people with lost limbs, Mr. Hallam said, "that is probably the saddest part" of the amputation.

The daughter of Alfred Roberts, a grocer and local alderman (and later mayor of Grantham), and Beatrice Ethel Stephenson, Thatcher formed an early desire to be a politician.

Although he possessed much of his parents' theatrical talents and enjoyed dabbling in amateur productions, Mathews evidently had no early desire for a stage career.

Originating as a trading post, it was incorporated in 1837 and named for the English centre of learning, reflecting the townspeople's early desire for a university.

Her book makes it clear that some of her drive comes from that early desire not to be dominated or belittled by her father, who had an iron will.