Sentence examples for has previously wanted from inspiring English sources

Rick Perry, the former Texas governor, has been nominated to lead the department of energy, an agency he has previously wanted to shut down.

Russia has previously wanted to present its own Ushakov Medal to Britons who had served on the convoys, but the move was blocked by the UK Foreign Office (FCO).

Republicans said they were witnesses who Democrats had previously wanted to come before the panel.

Xstrata had previously wanted to consolidate their ferrochrome, platinum and vanadium assets into Lonmin, such a plan may re-emerge.

Mr. Brennan told the judge that he had previously wanted to testify, but that his lawyer had convinced him it was not necessary.

I went to parties and failed to have fun, saw friends and failed to connect; I bought things I had previously wanted and gained no satisfaction from them.

That was an unlikely strategy for a Republican administration, especially one that had previously wanted to rein in Fannie and Freddie.

In 1976, he was hired to track down the very same wolves that the government had previously wanted dead, this time for a captive-breeding program.

She honored his wishes nonetheless, and was already on familiar terms with the people of the shops, had the mews house painted in the colors she had previously wanted.

("He said that he wanted now to get the children out of the park and the rain as much as he had previously wanted to get them into it," the Times said).

Embassy cables also show that the US had previously wanted to apply financial sanctions to Suleiman as part of an effort to weaken the Assad regime, but found it difficult to do so because the information about him was so highly classified it could not be made public.