Sentence examples for mere wish from inspiring English sources

But Ms. Otero also suggested that it had helped that Ms. Hu had come in with more than a mere wish to have a business.

Technology enthusiasts and corporate giants want us to believe that their vision of the future is not a mere wish but a foretelling.

Tolkien's world may not be the same as our own, Auden wrote in a 1956 review of the author's work for the New York Times, but it's a world "of intelligible law, not mere wish," that represents our own reality.

From a grievance, or the desire to do harm, or the mere wish to watch a spectacular event, one of them would probably have set it aflame, and no one would do very much to help put it out.

Unlike mere "wish", if it is to persist and prevail then a popular will must remain united in the face of its opponents, and find ways of overcoming their resistance to its aims.

Julien, like Chester and Rydal, appears to behave as he chooses, yet something deep in the natures of such men — the itch of recklessness, the gluttonous demands of wallet and loins, the mere wish to learn more — hurries them along their fateful paths.

But how do we distinguish between needs and mere wishes?

The trick is to distinguish a sense of the odds from mere wishes.

The most promising approach for justifying a priority threshold can be seen in relying upon the distinction between needs and (mere) wishes.

Those steps usually take the form of training and practice, not simple acts of will and certainly not mere wishes.

These goals had the potential of being more than mere wishes because they were built on the promising successes of the Millennium Development Goals that cut extreme poverty in half.