Sentence examples for modest wish from inspiring English sources

They began with a modest wish list.

In the short term, his mother has a more modest wish.

The Giuliani administration, along with Senators Schumer and Clinton, is planning to submit a more modest wish list.

That sad, modest wish — to be kept in mind — strikes a resounding note of grief and gratitude that echoes down the ages.

So on this World Book Day, if I have one modest wish, it is that, at least for a day, we ponder the real and spiritual poverty of a life lived without the ability to read, without the sheer joy of escaping into a good book.

That modest wish is a radical aspiration in a country where stone churches are the central architectural statement in almost all cities and towns, and Christianity so permeates the culture that, for most French, it is an assumed part of the national identity.

They were simple, modest wishes.

Given cost control pressures, the principle of autonomy can be most easily upheld if everyone had rather modest wishes.

He was given the outstanding sum by two generous bystanders, and paid the husband who promptly "gave the Woman a modest Salute wishing her well, and his Brother Sterling much Joy of his Bargain".

I will always be modest and secretly wish for a laptop, maybe when mom graduates I will get one.' The wish signed shortly with S.P. is for all people to start paying more attention to their families and children: 'Sometimes children's wishes are very simple, and lots of them are unfulfilled.

Those who thought George Clooney's wedding to hot shot human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin was going to be a modest affair may wish to reconsider.