Sentence examples for willed from inspiring English sources

Their quixotic charm enchanted most of the 23,000 crowd in Elche, who willed them on loudly, becoming especially giddy whenever "El Mágico" got the ball.

He willed his way to that fourth gold.

Facing defeat against Anna-Lena Friedsam, Victoria Azarenka, Sloane Stephens and Safarova, who was appearing in her first grand slam final, she willed herself to victory, determined not to let a chance of a title go by.

­Another vignette finds him wandering past the hospital where "she willed her body to medical science", musing to himself: "that's where my dead wife lives.

He could only suppose God had willed it that way.God also intended, he believed, that Communism would fail by itself when its energy ran out.

Having measured this burden, they attempt to explain its origin.In this section They have willed the ends, but what about the means?

When the puffs of smoke from the company's Detroit headquarters appear, the final choice of the next chairman will largely be that of the strong-willed Mr Smith himself.

According to one report, the opposition wants binding guarantees that uncomfortable, strong-willed characters like Mr Chubais and Mr Berezovsky will not be in the government.

Yet, as even some of the best-willed practitioners point out, getting from principle to practice will always be hard: each situation is different and even the most carefully written rules will seldom be an exact fit.When impunity persistsIn any case, better than new rules would be more effective enforcement of those that already exist.

It will introduce management tensions: the plan is that Messrs Sommer and Bernabe would together run the merged group, but both are famously strong-willed.

Django Unchained in that it's a brutal account of strong-willed slave in the segregated south.