Sentence examples for expressing a wish for from inspiring English sources

In other words it is not simply a case of the team director expressing a wish for a certain individual and it is hard to see how Flower's successor could operate properly unless he was comfortable with the man leading the side.

Even questions, e.g., are interpreted by Bolzano not as sentences expressing a wish for information but as describing such a wish and therefore being true or false in the usual sense of these words (WL I, 88, WL II, 71 76, 194 196).

Only families who had expressed a wish for more children would be approached for this procedure.

France's voters may yet, in the impending polls, express a wish for power to be divided.

Away from their bosses some of the younger ones express a wish for a return to the challenging journalism aimed at the government that characterised the revolution of 2011, but none felt able to say this openly.

Whenever you expressed a wish for things to be different, some rough-hewn stoic would be on hand to remind you that passive acceptance would banish disappointment or dissatisfaction.

Many people express a wish for a political solution — perhaps a transitional government involving moderate government officials — but believe that decisions are being made by armed men on both sides who refuse to compromise.

In the clinical situation of an intensive care patient for whom a decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment is taken, but whose death does not occur after a certain time, 50.3% of respondents expressed a wish for the patient's death to come quicker, but only 9.6% were in favor of the administration of lethal drugs even if authorized by the law.

There will be occasion to mention non-voluntary euthanasia — instances of euthanasia where a person is either not competent, or unable, at the time to express a wish about euthanasia and has not previously expressed a wish for it — only when consideration is given to the claim that permitting voluntary euthanasia will lead via a slippery slope to permitting non-voluntary euthanasia.

Wittman said that the management of the Actors Fund have expressed a wish for a West Coast encore.

She has also expressed a wish for more new musicals to be put into production, instead of frequent revivals.