Sentence examples for wished to stop from inspiring English sources

report said, "Bayer wished to stop production, but maintained it on the grounds that no other alternatives were available".

Instead we watched helplessly as special interests contorted the proposed bill into health insurance reform that codified the very practices we wished to stop.

(As the Brecht scholar Eric Bentley logically points out in one of his essays on the play, "Had those who wished to stop Galileo and scientific advance had their way, there would be no atom bomb").

Ms. Rice noted that a diplomatic league of the five permanent Security Council members plus Germany had offered "a very, very good package of initiatives that Iran could take up if it wished to stop its enrichment and reprocessing activity".

The earliest material we have is political; aged 10, Rachel wrote a poem about how "children everywhere are suffering" and how she wished to "stop hunger by the year 2000".

Chief among these, as Jonathan Lethem put it, in a short story inspired by the character, from 2004, is "the power to vary the density of his body, becoming a ghost if he wished to float through walls or doors, becoming diamond hard if he wished to stop bullets like Superman".

(Sensitive male readers may wish to stop reading here).

They have repeatedly funded infrastructure that Israel subsequently destroyed and wish to stop this cycle.

Now you wish to stop others from doing so as well.

Should they wish to stop it, unions need to come up with some better roadblocks.

If you wish to stop that behavior, go to the Tools menu in Outlook Express and click on Options.