Sentence examples for mere wishing from inspiring English sources

Mere wishing won't guarantee anything- hard work will.

Move on from mere wishing to actually making your goals happen.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In line with Islamic orthodoxy, Tantawi said surgery was permissible "in order to reveal what was hidden of male or female organs" but added that surgery was not permissible "at the mere wish to change sex from woman to man, or vice versa".

But how do we distinguish between needs and mere wishes?

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