'wished' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a past tense verb and can be used when you want to say something that you wanted before but did not happen. Example Sentence: I wished I had asked my teacher for help before turning in my paper.
In similar cases, the court has wished to remain above the legal fray, leaving the argument to be fought out by the lower courts.
Amos met the Syrian foreign minister, Walid al-Moualem, on Wednesday and an aide said he told her she would be able to go anywhere in Syria she wished to.
Although universities would be free to weight marks how they wished and also decide on whether to include marks for first-year students, the report stressed the importance of establishing a universal approach to GPA.
Greece's embattled finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, stepped up his war of words with eurozone policymakers on Thursday, saying he wished his country still had the drachma, and would not sign up to any bailout plan that would send his country into a "death spiral".
Ballantyne wished Gretna well as he pondered the future of football in the town.
And for a moment we were going to shelve everything, and I wished to God that we had, but we didn't because I think, in some ways, we could not wrap our minds around the fact that our friend Craig had grown up and moved on.
A basic model costs £16,000: armed with the Weirs' £1m, the SNP could now if it wished buy one each for nearly all its MSPs.
As 21,322 people crammed into Tannadice to welcome an under pressure Terry Venables and his under performing Barcelona side, few could have wished for a better start.
By the same token, in their macabre minds turning the babies over to "good" military families to raise as their own represented the ultimate victory over the "godless" left-wing enemy they wished to crush into nonexistence.
The greatest tribute I could pay to Charles is that I always wished he was Labour, because he was so talented and popular with the general public.
Comments by the prime minister on Wednesday that he did not support a ban but wished women did not wear them were slammed as divisive and harmful.
