Sentence examples for longing for order from inspiring English sources

The traditional Western was a fantasy about lawfulness: it was based on a longing for order among those who had been living without it for too long.

Just a general longing for order and stability?

"I've been thinking a lot lately about my own longing for order," he said.

On the other hand, a decade of chaos has fostered, among average Russians, a longing for order that could legitimize a new and lethal despotism under Putin.

The turbulence of recent years, starting with the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and through the chaotic presidency of Muhammad Morsi, who was himself toppled in 2013, has left many longing for order and stability.

In 2006, in "The Audacity of Hope," he had written, "Reagan spoke to America's longing for order, our need to believe that we are not simply subject to blind, impersonal forces but that we can shape our individual and collective destinies, so long as we rediscover the traditional virtues of hard work, patriotism, personal responsibility, optimism, and faith".

Every woman in England is longing for her political freedom in order to make the lot of the worker more pleasant and to bring about reforms which are wanted.

Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.

The cohort was international — there were five Chinese students — and some, longing for their native foods, began ordering them on Amazon Prime.

We long for more than a vacation; we're a society longing for an off switch.

Those longing for it are pining for a global order that cannot exist again.