Sentence examples for it desired to from inspiring English sources

When it desired to use such methods against a prisoner or to obtain from him a propaganda statement or "confession," it simply declared the prisoner a "war-crimes suspect" and informed him that, therefore, he was not subject to international rules governing the treatment of prisoners of war.

It may be hard for Microsoft to argue that the types of limitations it desired to impose on AOL -- whose use of RealPlayer provides a broader range of audio and video formats -- are a benefit to consumers in the face of its operating system monopoly.

Because, one says easily, it desired to survive and so engaged in avoidance behavior.

Matters came to a head in 1952, when the mainland NOC (the All-China Athletic Federation), considering itself a continuation of the pre-1949 committee, wrote to the IOC stating that it desired to participate in the Helsinki Olympics to be held that year.

Nor does it desire to protect us from danger, to save us, to teach us the secret of immortal life.

It desires "to salvage dead threatened and endangered species for scientific museum collections and public education/display".

And maybe New York changes not just because it has to, but because it desires to.

Like all living things, it desires to stay alive and will fight back when attacked.

China wishes not to become dependant on foreign supplies for seeds and agricultural products, yet it desires to attract foreign technology and investment.

Go back and forth between it desiring to fall and it staying on.

Because he was good at it, he desired to clarify it.