Sentence examples for over desires from inspiring English sources

Some Muslim scholars have written that residents of northern regions can forgo the fasting ritual, which is meant as a way to strengthen the will and rule over desires.

Alexander was used by these writers as an example of ruler values such as amicita (friendship) and clementia (clemency), but also iracundia (anger) and cupiditas gloriae (over-desire for glory).

The stories share themes of disillusionment and frustration over thwarted desires.

The political and philosophical debate about sexuality discusses who has the power over human desires, God or self.

Don't obsess over material desires.

An excess of desired investment over desired savings can lead to economic expansion, which drives up income.

Similarly, traditional philosophy expressed the ascetic ideal when it privileged soul over body, mind over senses, duty over desire, reality over appearance, the timeless over the temporal.

It was obviously wrong even then: we have an excess of desired savings over desired investment — that's why the economy is depressed!

They may also be low because there is an excess of desired saving over desired investment; there are not enough profitable projects for companies to invest in.

The newly unemployed and impoverished, the long-term excluded and the aspirants to affluence the world over desire only a restoration of the status quo.

In its absence, half-brothers Michel and Bruno, one an arch rationalist, the other a compulsive dreamer, abandoned in childhood (as was the author) by their hippy parents, find different ways to destroy themselves over desire.