Sentence examples for state wished from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kemp, he said, had a message that Colin L. Powell, then secretary of state, wished to deliver to officials in Iraq.

They used their near-sovereign ratings (because of an implicit government guarantee on their borrowings) to mop up cheap money and to allocate it as the state wished, often funding budget deficits.

Nonetheless, even though he knew that his state wished to go no further than a revision of the Articles of Confederation, he signed the new constitution as an individual.

It is not the stuff of conspiracy theories to assume that some avid supporters of a European federal state wished for this very scenario all along: they knew the euro would not work and thus necessarily lead to "more Europe".

In a battle of dueling bureaucracies, the Supreme Court recently dealt a blow to price transparency in Vermont, where the state wished to publish a database of fees and other information.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Cuomo, Dani Lever, explained in a statement that the state wished to redirect savings from "bureaucratic costs" to academics, and that it needed the city's cooperation to do so.

That malleable phrase contains a provision for any conspiracy the state wishes to perceive.

"If the state wishes to have a death penalty, then they should be honest and reintroduce hanging," he says.

"Or assume," she wrote, "a state wishes to subsidize the ownership of crucifixes" in one of three ways.

If the state wishes to provide terrorists with ready-made propaganda, then flaunting its attacks on civil liberties is one way of going about it.

The UK might well continue to back its actions as a third-party state, wishing to avoid more costly Nato interventions.