It seems you yearned to see me

Even as a boy he wanted to become an engineer.

He aspired to the position of Prime Minister.

Where you longed for something you did not

La Ruche, Paris As a young man, he heard about Paris this time and this unique artistic atmosphere to which he aspired.

Strengthening our ties with Africa has been a long standing aspiration of Brazil's.

It aspired to promote trade as a vehicle of partnership between developed and developing countries.

Similarly, when Morocco quit the OAU in 1984, it dreamed of European Union membership.

Alice said but was dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.

Emma, her eyes half closed, breathed in with deep sighs the fresh wind that was blowing.

The European economic giant aspired to a global political role, but here reality swept in.

It was impossible to tell whether the new servant would turn out as absolutely methodical as his master required experience alone could solve the question.

She sucked the present out of me, but I sucked her dry of past.

Feeling that re election as governor was necessary to give him a chance at the higher offices he sought, Johnson agreed to make the run.

36. The commonwealth status sought by Guam was not a final one.

A modern, advanced and cosmopolitan Caracas, a city seeking to overcome simple problems of urban development.

Newly independent in 1946, the Icelandic people sought the clear recognition of sovereignty which membership of the United Nations gives.

The pursuit of the second wave of the feminist movement in the 60s and 70s was strongly focused on enabling women to get on in paid jobs.

Botticelli would aspire to take this common theme and produce an entirely original work, while asserting himself among the most important citizens of Florence.

He said that his people were suffering from occupation and uncertainty and that they wanted a solution, and he confirmed both the procedural and substantive points that his envoy had made to me in New York.

And Aurora kept playing the game, kept finding the little target and getting the orange juice that she wanted to get, that she craved for.

When reading Dr Dhaif's tweets, one can see that he is not a politician and that all he was trying to do was be a medical doctor, practising in peace and without discrimination.

The Soviet Union also wanted to surround itself with a protective buffer of like minded states, and Italy s Benito Mussolini was proud that for a time fascism was a competitive export.

The Truth Commission, led by the Anglican bishop, Desmond Tutu, has demonstrated its willingness to strive for genuine reconciliation in South Africa.

The Old Testament tells how work on the tower in Shinar, in ancient Babylon, was disrupted because man aspired to reach the heavens and divinity.

Rosa longed for a world where justice would not be sacrificed in the name of freedom, nor freedom sacrificed in the name of justice.

With the simplest of words, Zhu was attempting to awaken a nation, and, for China s dictators, nothing is more subversive or terrifying than the word choice.

The Council says that it invited officially approved Chinese writers because it wanted to create greater understanding of Chinese literature and promote cultural exchange between the two countries.

Thus, the general who yearned to see his picture in Chilean history books next to that of our liberator, Bernardo O Higgins, must now resign himself to dying abandoned even by those who, until only two years ago, revered and honored him.

During my many visits to the Balkans, generally together with Doris Pack, I have scarcely met anyone who dreams of a Greater Albania.

With the simplest of words, Zhu was attempting to awaken a nation, and, for China s dictators, nothing is more subversive or terrifying than the word choice.

I shall waste as few words as possible on them for fear of blushing.

Furthermore, Slovakia, unlike most of its regional peers, has fulfilled its legal obligation to join the eurozone an obligation that an independent Scotland would have to take on when, as expected, it sought EU membership.

The Council really needs to start questioning whether Lisbon is working as well as people think it is in terms of the provision of high quality jobs and the social cohesion which was sought at Lisbon.

For a country positioning itself as a leader in the global knowledge economy, neglecting investment in education was a grave error, with other countries now staking a claim to the role to which India aspired.

The rumors state that Wang has requested political asylum at the US consulate after falling out of favor with the local high profile party secretary Bo Xilai, who aspires to a top political post.

The people spoke, and their voice carried beyond frontiers and shattered the silence of an order which they did not want, which was imposed on them and which they clearly wished to reject in order to recover their own identity.

Some might now say that we should have gone further, as my group had hoped, but the fact is that the obstacles to liberalisation have been removed, something which, in all honesty, few people expected could happen in Barcelona.

In particular, the draft constitution of the association stated that the new body aspired to making the International Society of Krishna Consciousness, which is only one of many branches of Vishnu Hinduism, the only religious organization representing Vishnuism in Belarus.

I worked for many years on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and it was really moving to see how a nation in such difficult circumstances was reaching out for a more open, European style, pluralistic democratic society.

The government aspired to play a constructive role across Africa, act as a spokesman for Third World interests at the UN and elsewhere, and promote an end to the plethora of conflicts bedeviling the continent.

For twenty minutes Julien continued to speak in this strain he said everything that was in his heart the counsel for the prosecution, who aspired to the favour of the aristocracy, kept springing from his seat but in spite of the somewhat abstract turn which Julien had given the debate, all the women were dissolved in tears.

Quasimodo stationed himself in front of this open throat he crouched and rose with the oscillations of the bell, breathed in this overwhelming breath, gazed by turns at the deep place, which swarmed with people, two hundred feet below him, and at that enormous, brazen tongue which came, second after second, to howl in his ear.

And the Babel of sounds voices near and far ringingthin in the light atmosphere, shouts and cries of children being bathed,clear laughter of women all made a pleasant, continuous din, minglingwith the unheeding breeze, and breathed with the air itself.

He was full of weird and unnatural notions about being a credit to his parents and an honour to the school and he yearned to win prizes, and grow up and be a clever man, and had all those sorts of weak minded ideas.