Sentence examples for wished to hide from inspiring English sources
Some were daubed with tar, others stripped half naked, many painted with swastikas.Quite simply, Mr Beevor concludes, these young women were the easiest scapegoats, particularly for men who wished to hide their own lack of resistance credentials.
Rescuers rushed to bury part of the wreckage, either in haste to get the service going again before all the survivors had been accounted for, or because they wished to hide technology (either Chinese, or some lifted from foreign companies).
The inflation, the devaluation of currency, the coming privation when banking and oil sanctions took full hold: this, and not even the election turnout, was what the Islamic Republic wished to hide from foreign eyes.
As the new rocks arrived during their two-decade Sturm und Drang she would parade them eagerly to friends, and sit at table silently adoring them while, with her free hand, she wolfed down steak-and-kidney pie.Her amethyst eyesJewels were something to hide behind as, chronically shy, she always wished to hide.
The royal family believed that these afflictions flowed through their blood, which was believed to be purer than the blood of a commoner, and, as such, wished to hide as much as possible in regard to John's illness.
In his biography of D'Oliveira, Peter Oborne writes that Allen and the MCC secretary Billy Griffith wished to hide any South African reply from the full MCC Committee to avoid raising awkward questions over Vorster's intentions.
I do not wish to hide the truth from you — it is a very difficult decision.
Politicians wishing to hide tanking national results will boast about the percentage of children staying on for further study.
Nock says it is possible for patients taking the I.A.T. or the Stroop to adjust the speed of their keystrokes if they wish to hide their thoughts.
We hold free speech to a high standard: free speech entails the news that censors wish to hide, and the poetry that reveals our nature to us.
Wishing to hide my secret life, standing waiting for the drugs to wear off in fields outside Leeds, I muttered that I did "a bit of babysitting".
