Sentence examples for reasonable wishes from inspiring English sources

In particular they have to deal with the government's demand that the making of schools has to be put in the power of large construction companies that show little sign of caring for ideals of education, the environments in which children grow up, the reasonable wishes of teachers, or anything much beyond getting away with the shabbiest possible building at the best possible price.

These are on the reasonable wish lists of Lincoln Center's constituent companies.

What a splendid scene it is, in "The House of Mirth," when Lily Bart's careworn father, having laughed at his daughter's reasonable wish to sweeten the luncheon table with twelve dollars' worth of lilies of the valley each day, is asked by his free-spending wife if he is ill.

"Goodwill towards all men"...in the nonsexist, nongender-specific and gluten-free way...before the knee-jerkers call me out for not being PC... "Goodwill" seems to be a reasonable wish and an admirable goal for all of humankind...no?

Libraries, Carol Mandel, said in a statement that the university believes the "reasonable privacy wishes" of a child should be considered.

He approved my line, kept the fees reasonable and wished me luck going forward.

May I pay my respects at your mother's funeral?" Abide by her wishes — reasonable or otherwise.

It points out that the offer of a prenatal test for a particular trait is never neutral, but rather implies that a reasonable person might wish to know whether her fetus has this trait, and that this information might reasonably be the basis for a decision not to continue the pregnancy.

(This did not seem reasonable to Meinong, who wished to confine the subject-matter of metaphysics to "the actual" and who therefore did not regard his Theory of Objects as a metaphysical theory.

Searching Medline, along with any two of Embase, CCTR, or CAB Health, would appear to constitute a reasonable approach for those wishing to search this topic comprehensively.

"Yes," he allowed, wishing to be reasonable.