Canavero has said that China is keen to be involved in the procedure as a way of demonstrating its keenness for scientific research to the world, likening the race to complete the transplant to the space race.
Keenness for contact with foreigners is strong, for its own sake and as resistance to enforced isolation.
Mr. Perkins said he had a early signal of Mr. Bakker's keenness for wealth in 1977.
She began a degree in history, as planned, but combined the subject with economics, in part to capitalize on a keenness for math.
She loved the privilege and luxury her status allowed her to enjoy - the horses, the extravagant clothes, the rich food and fine wines, her keenness for helicopter travel and weakness for jewels and objets d'arts.
And experience shows that growth is more likely to follow spending cuts than tax rises.Time to go DutchIn rhetorical terms, Mr Sarkozy is the less unrealistic: witness his keenness for German reforms in his TV appearance.
His command of detail, his habit of reckoning the cost of everything, is reminiscent of England's next great bureaucrat, Samuel Pepys, the diarist and naval administrator, whose keenness for home improvements Mantel may also have borrowed for Cromwell.
Russia's keenness for nuclear-backed bullying can be seen in its threats to launch pre-emptive strikes against American missile-defence sites due in Romania this year and in Poland in 2018.
Mr. Charest's keenness for informality would certainly have fit the times in the 1960's, when Quebec was going through its "Quiet Revolution" of expanding government, flirting with independence and shirking the conservative mores espoused by a powerful Roman Catholic Church.
Since taking office in September, the president, Ashraf Ghani, has made known his interest in the preservation of Afghanistan's cultural life and his keenness for working with Unesco in Kabul.
The need to write off existing reserves shines a revealing light on global climate politics, because when you map out the world's fossil fuel reserves, a striking correlation emerges between the amount of carbon a country has in the ground and its keenness for – or resistance to – a global climate deal.
