Such groups have traditionally had some say (albeit less than they would have wished) in policymaking.
It's not like what I wished in my mind," he said.
I wished — in the easy, counterfactual way of the traveller — that I'd be around for a few more days.
They shared one unpredicted sentiment: each wished, in a way, that she could go back to Carroll Academy.
The lack of a true monopoly prevented the Portuguese from charging the prices that they wished in European markets.
Very few of the names meant anything to him, and he wished, in London, to get by on his own.
That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, in so far as possible, the killing of civilians".
In practice, this meant that Yahya — a vain, shallow mediocrity — was suddenly considered indispensable, free to do whatever he wished in East Pakistan.
But Ms. Hempel's tendency to suggest precisely the opposite of what she actually wished, in the vague and automatic hope of pleasing someone, asserted itself.
On the western boundary stood a line of ash trees that he wished, in dictatorial moods, to cut down, because they filled his garden with seeds.
They wished, in fact, that the residents would realize how good they had it, when it came to the water's substance, and stop complaining about its style.
