Sentence examples for wishes instead of from inspiring English sources

The planning department should be carrying out the councillors' wishes, instead of telling them to think again.

Only the oldest son, Daniel, violated his father's wishes: instead of continuing his yeshiva education, he studied classics and philosophy at Washington University in St . Louis

So after announcing the idea in May, Facebook is now running Birthday Stories that encourage friends to submit a short video clip of well wishes instead of bland text.

The participants also emphasized that dementia care should be based on the individual person's needs and wishes, instead of treating people living in nursing homes like a group.

There are also two more types of Pikmin in Pikmin 2, improved controls, easier multitasking, the addition of "sprays", a multiplayer feature, and the fact that a player can continue searching for treasure as long as he or she wishes, instead of only 30 days.

The 2014 budget announced new freedoms for retirees who, from 6 April 2015, will be able to withdraw all of their pension savings as they wish, instead of having to buy an annuity contract from an insurer.

Like so many women of her generation, she never had the career she wished; instead of working in an office, which is what she would have liked, Mum left school at 14 to work in a machine shop just off the Seven Sisters Road.

I am providing people with an option of local, grass-fed, healthy animals they can visit and see in person any time they wish instead of some factory-slaughter, diesel-shipped, airline loaded piece of frozen mutton from New Zealand.

I wish instead of running puppy bowls and kitten bowls, and alternative halftimes, some network with a little courage ran a flat-out anti-NFL pregame show, sort of the way The Daily Show looks at politics, or Talk Soup once did for reality shows, and studies the crap being troweled out by these suited Alfred E. Newmans with microphones.

Unlike its neighbour, breakaway Somaliland, Puntland says it does not seek recognition as an independent entity, wishing instead to be part of a federal Somalia.

The justice system is diminished when the government tries to enforce the law it wishes for, instead of the law that exists.