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It is anxious to secure a stronger five-year mandate and regain a two-thirds legislative majority that it lost in 2008.

Bellamy is anxious to secure regular first-team football having recently stressed he feels "fitter than ever".

Netanyahu had asked for a total of $45bn, and floated the idea of waiting to seal the agreement until a new president was in office, but in the end opted to make a deal with the Obama administration that was anxious to secure its legacy and combat accusations that its foreign policy had been detrimental to Israel.

Britain had little need for uranium ores while the war continued, but was anxious to secure adequate supplies for its own nuclear weapons program when it ended.

The last Piast king of Poland, Casimir III the Great (ruled 1333 70), left his throne to his Angevin nephew Louis I, who was already king of Hungary (ruled 1342 82); but because Louis had no sons and was anxious to secure the Polish throne for his own dynasty rather than allow it to revert to remote Piast cousins, he tried to gain the support of the Polish nobility.

Newcastle were anxious to secure an away goal and, after only 11 minutes, they had one.

The Palestinian leadership was anxious to secure a tangible gain for returning to the negotiations process amid deep public scepticism.

"Bath will be a huge challenge as they will be anxious to secure a home Premiership semi-final," Humphreys said.

Although neither Britain nor the US has diplomatic relations with Tehran, both are anxious to secure assistance in the release of hostages in Lebanon.

Both sides are anxious to secure the outskirts of Damascus near the border with Lebanon to the country's north, where Jabhat al-Nusra and other extremist groups are concentrated.

National oil companies are also flush with cash because of high prices, and increased spending by fast growing economies like India and China, who are anxious to secure their own supplies as demand picks up after the global financial crisis.