Sentence examples for than wanted from inspiring English sources

But such enterprises often have a hopeful, doomed feeling to them: they seem more willed than wanted.

Under that system, we let in more English people than wanted to come and completely excluded Chinese — a policy, in culinary terms, that is suicidal.

France and Russia have hinted that they will veto any move to lift sanctions against Iraq -- virtually a prerequisite for reconstruction -- unless the United Nations is given a broader role than wanted by Washington.

It scarcely requires a clinical psychologist to understand why Alec fled the smothering influence and became a raffish exile, while Evelyn made great literary use of the sense of being a less than wanted child.

More people want what we produce today than wanted it yesterday.

But it turned out a lot more people wanted to get around the city than wanted to go the distance and the parent company was supplanted with something pinker and fuzzier a few years later.

'To me, it was worse than wanting to die.

I admire them more than want to rubbish them.

And now, according to Gallup, more Americans want to repeal "Obamacare" than want to keep it.

"More than wanting to save the house," she said, "I wanted to save the neighborhood".

"And I need you more than want you / And I want you for all time".