Sentence examples for he previously wanted from inspiring English sources

Former Texas governor Rick Perry, recently picked to head the Energy Department, an agency he previously wanted to eliminate (and whose name he infamously forgot in a televised presidential debate), is typical.

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

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

("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).

Upset with western criticism of him when he returned to the presidency for a third term in 2012, Putin realised that an independent Russia could never be part of the "western club" as he had previously wanted, says Dugin. "Putin sees the west as his main enemy, but to come to this conclusion he lived through a lot, he lived through a historical situation," Dugin said.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, whose side was beaten in the second leg of the semi-final at Stamford Bridge to lose the tie on aggregate, admitted he had previously wanted to sign the Brazil-born player.

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.

The eight year old previously wanted to be a gangster.

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

His reappearance has been a spectacular turnaround from an owner that previously wanted nothing to do with the club.

Management previously wanted to treat the shutdown as unpaid leave, workers said.