Sentence examples for wish to strike from inspiring English sources

Lila's personality becomes organized around the idea that "you have to strike fear into those who wish to strike fear into you".

"This is the balance that we wish to strike, and this consultation is the most appropriate and fairest way of doing so".

"They wish to strike out on another course," Berta wrote, "while the mate [Mundy] contends that we must stick with the captain's boat".

The reader of "As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh" might wish to strike out "catatonic" and insert "self-absorbed" or "self-lacerating" or "self-pitying" — malign spirits in danger of possessing Sontag whenever she paused from thinking.

If you wish to strike up a meaningful relationship with a design star of tomorrow — surely a better investment option than playing the stock market — you might want to stop by the Rhode Island School of Design's graduate thesis exhibition.

If you wish to strike a pose as the nation's protector, why not reassure the voting public that, should enemies of the state arise, they will be hunted down and punished, no matter where or when?

Speaking at a Conservative party conference fringe session chaired by the Guardian local government network, Greg Clark said he wished to strike up unique deals with each city and region.

It wishes to strike at the heart of the European ideal by liquidating the very foundation of the union: by persuading us to tear up the Schengen agreement and to close our frontiers.

Mr Juncker has been consistently and absurdly vilified in the UK as a threat to Britain, even though he has made clear that he wishes to strike a compromise with the UK, while Mr Tusk, after an earlier spat with Downing Street over EU benefit rights, is now being portrayed as the man whom David Cameron can do EU business with.

Wealthy capitalists wishing to strike a balance between the demands of labor and desires of capital looked to Robert Owen's example.

At the end of the film, when she is left in the house abandoned by her family, we realize it is not because of the selfishness of adult children wishing to strike out on their own but because of the vitriol of a woman who, for all intents and purposes, became a mother not through choice but through circumstance and expectation.