She acknowledged her long-time desire for the honour, then thanked her husband, director Sam Mendes, and her two children.
Entry into a TMB profession sometimes came from a long-time desire, or the realization that they were finally coming "home" to the profession, often after receiving some TMB or taking an introductory course.
Compliment the company, i.e., "Having read the recent article in Schmutz Magazine entitled "Blah, Blah, Blah", my long-time desire to join the talented and qualified marketing staff at the Widget Company is reinforced".
Abandoned by Vegas -- which is no longer hospitable to anyone born after about 1960, let alone people who were performing on the Strip back then -- Buddy's found a new home in Palm Springs, CA, where he achieved one of his long-time desires and opened his own nightclub.
Let us go back in time for a minute: more than just a legal framework, the Oslo Accords were to many a realization of a long time human desire - that by the power of our hearts, our passion for a different future, we will be able to chart a viable course of action and reshape reality as we knew it.
Howells becomes a different writer in Venice, achieving a note of happy imperturbability, at once avid and serene, that remained for a long time the desired style of American descriptive writing.
Ms. Bruni, for her part, has said that "love lasts a long time, but burning desire, two or three weeks".
Sometimes these can cast a little light on why you haven't been in a relationship for a long time, despite your desire for one.
"I've been torn for a long time between a desire as a reporter to do just do my job," he said.
In a March 2006 interview, Jovovich said that she would not appear in another action film "for a long time", expressing a desire to portray more diverse roles, but she added that talks of another sequel in the Resident Evil franchise were a "real possibility".
For a long time, Madonna had desired to play Perón and even wrote to director Alan Parker, explaining how she would be perfect for the part.
