Wants Sentence Examples
He wants one of his own.
They try to connect the person who wants to know something to the thing that person wants to know.
Martha wants to work until she has the baby.
The prince wants to bathe.
Jonathan wants a little brother, not a little sister.
She wants to talk to you.
If she wants to go, I could take care of Claire.
Prince Andrew wants a son and not an old maid, he would say.
I thought it was strange, since Jimmy's the last person who would veer off course from your orders because you let him blow up whatever he wants and he doesn't wanna lose that.
Now he wants to bob up again.
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He says he wants to talk to you.
I turned and announced to the others, "Everyone; Howie is in love with Julie and wants to marry her."
He just wants to talk to you; that's all.
Each and every one of them wants to kill us!
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Linda thinks about this and decides she wants to keep it ad-free for now.
I think the cat wants dessert!
So you think she wants to get back at you by taking me away?
He wants us to do this.
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Mr. Brennan posted that he wants you to call him.
Dusty, we found out why he wants to keep her close.
He wants Claire and probably has a private brothel in town.
He wants to kill me, because he's Death and that's what Death does.
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Daddy wants to fix your foot.
Whatever he wants is around Atlanta.
She wants you too.
He likes having a wife who wants him to boss her around.
The Council wants nothing to do with them and views the presence of your father's betrayer and your people on the planet as a sign the Yirkin are willing to share your planet rather than take it over.
Who wants to go first?
Fred has a date with Mrs. Abernathy and won't be home for supper but wants you to wait up for him.
Leland wants you to go down there with Mrs. Byrne so she can identify her husband.
But generally in from 18 to 33 out of the 72 governments in European Russia (including Caucasia) and Poland the yield of cereals is not sufficient for the wants of the people.
She has learned that EVERYTHING HAS A NAME, AND THAT THE MANUAL ALPHABET IS THE KEY TO EVERYTHING SHE WANTS TO KNOW.
If she wants water she says, "Give Helen drink water."
One wants to do it peacefully and lovingly.
Now she wants to go down there.
He can do what he wants.
I'll do whatever Darkyn wants me to.
Sasha wants her as much as Toby.
Sasha wants a human?
He wants to talk to you.
Tell him I kinda have a life and don't really care what he wants.
He's pissed and wants us both back.
He needs you and wants you.
Hey, Ully wants to see you.
And Rhyn's, unless he wants to stay with the other Ancients in their hall.
Darkyn wants the untainted vial.
Isn.t there some part of you that wants to make this right?
He wants to hook you up with his brother, by the way.
And the best part-- one of my best customers wants you to paint Cannery Row.
I'll be the rotund brunette no one wants to talk to!
She's probably coming here to meet a hot date and wants privacy.
As if she wants to help me.
Connor wants to leave at the crack of dawn.
And if he decides he wants to feed that way?
She makes whatever she wants out of them. Most of them go in the bottom of the Lake of Souls, where they can find their loved ones and be in peace.
You can stay here as my prisoner until Death gets what she wants and one of us kills you.
Yeah. Apparently Rhyn has gone on some rampage to kill Death. Kiki wants us to go to the underworld and stop him.
After the wants of the cavalry and artillery had been provided for, there remained but little material for transport work.
She wants to do business as a limited liability company, so she creates an LLC online for $200.
But God does not only want us to be HAPPY; He wants us to be good.
Don't you see the general wants to pass?
He doesn't force me to do what he wants.
Darian can email me if he wants.
You know Past-Death will stop at nothing to get what she wants, Darkyn said.
He says the mate of the Dark One can do whatever she wants.
She looked up at her husband as he began to dress "It's as if she's done something wrong and wants to talk about it but doesn't know how."
No one wants to think about the result of their actions nowadays, and no one talks about how this ruins the poor girl's life.
He wants me to grow one.
If someone wants to cover it up, let them.
If Seymour wants a job at Bird Song cleaning out toilets, perhaps when he loses this election, he should come by.
If she wants an undeserved medal, that's her call.
Seems like she wants to kick him in his whatsis but for some reason she lets him get away with it.
When she gets out she wants to be a beautician.
Katie wants to keep Destiny today, so I'll drop her off and then take Jonathan to the school for his field trip when I go for the conference.
She could live a lifetime and never find someone so perfectly fit to her wants and desires.
So can I, and I'm the one who wants them.
Not everyone wants children.
Tell Kris—next time he wants something—to call instead of sending this animal.
He didn.t take her hand, which means Darkyn probably wants her alive.
I think she wants me to remain here at Bird Song, at least for a while.
And we both know if Shipton is a beater, chances are good she'll just keep on taking it, until he kills her or gets what he wants.
Now he wants to try the breeding game one more time.
But now, all she wants to do is— have sex with me, like we're still kids and she can turn the clock back to hot nights and summer camp.
She wants to talk to Donald Ryland first.
He wants to save the few bucks the whore house charges and have her for his very own.
She still wants me to help her get her abortion.
Aren't you supposed to ask him if he wants a lawyer?
Naw. He's bitching a lot about headaches, double vision and memory loss, and wants to see his own doctor but he ain't gonna die.
She wants to get back with Donnie's pa but he doesn't like her no more.
His ma wants to know if Donnie can eat with us.
And she wants Donnie to sleep over with me and Janet for the night!
We figure it's her choice if she wants to take the big trip.
She can stay as long as she wants.
You're here because Sarah wants to give you some time to calm down and accept things.
Because she wants to give you some time to figure out that you two can make this work.
I'm sure the last thing he wants to do right now is give you a blow-by-blow description of his date.
Speaking of Sarah, she wants you to come for dinner Saturday.
I can't believe for a minute she wants to hurt you.
Bewitched wants to meet me, Ice Queen.
Well, she wants to do a little research to see if she can find an explanation.
Sure, he says he wants a woman who doesn't work out of the home, but he thinks she should spend all her time doing housework and raising children.
Josh wants to wear the pants, but he doesn't have much respect for a subservient woman.
And he wants me to get rid of them.
We're not even engaged yet, so if he wants to talk to Lori, I'll have to live with it.
If God wants us to have children, it will happen.
The regular army's got us running around between fed strongholds to assess damage to fed facilities and PMF HQ wants us helping refugees.
Someone down here wants martinis.
I agree with Dan—someone in the government wants to start another civil war.
If she wants to leave, she can help us check the receivers then go her own way.
You're doing exactly what Kris wants you to, Rhyn, going to your death like a lamb.
All I care about is finding Katie, kicking Death's ass and then going home, wherever Katie wants that to be.
Norfolk wants us to dig around up here before they go busting their backsides trying to drag the Chesapeake Bay for a body.
Norfolk wants to clean this up and they're looking for direction on which way to lean.
Mrs. Wassermann wants to hear from someone first thing.
He just wants a wife so people won't question his sexuality.
Leland wants to talk to you.
Papa wants to take him fishing.
He wants to close up that Byrne case unless you've found a real good reason to keep it open.
It gives you a hint why the whole crowd wants to carve up Mr. Baratto a piece at a time.
Now that Mrs. Glass has spilled the beans that someone's looking for him, if he wants to remain incognito, he's going to be twice as cautious.
Maybe someone who wants us to think Byrne swiped the millions.
If he wants to leave the partnership, good riddance.
If he wants to leave his wife, it's a free country.
She wants the man to make all the decisions.
Later he wants to fix the old house up and rent it to tourists.
Besides, he told me that he wants to wait too.
He could get any woman he wants.
If god wants us to have children, we will.
Are you wondering if that's why he wants to marry you?
Sometimes I wonder why he wants to marry me, though.
He was as concerned with her wants and needs as he was with his own.
Maybe she just wants to feel important.
Alex wants a baby, Josh.
There is a lady down in Texas who has a Longhorn cow she wants to sell.
Give her what she wants.
If she wants to run away, good riddance.
Nobody wants him but me, Carmen — and I had hoped, you.
Lori wants to talk to you.
She wants us to take the baby.
The Black God wants to be the only god the humans know.
He wants to know the answer to a question.
You know, girl, not every vamp wants to be human.
He wants the water from the Springs, which he claims is magic.
He wants to free his people of the madman who is his father.
Maybe he wants me to trust him so he can betray me, too.
A warrior wants to die in battle for his Warlord and kin.
Remember, son, your uncle, our king, wants us to return with a token of the barbarians' agreement.
I want what Sirian wants, what every warlord outside of this kingdom wants but cannot have.
And yet, the only female heir there's been has challenged the demon and wants to kill it.
He wants Tiyan for himself.
He wants Tiyan for his own!
He wants to rent your house – he and a couple of other guys.
Did you know Jonathan told our twins that Alex wants to get him a cell phone but you're being a … unreasonable about it?
I hope no one wants to spend too much time here.
He wants me to wear it while I'm working, though.
Besides, we have a land line if he really wants to talk to me – and he obviously doesn't.
That man wants to be in control of everything, doesn't he?
She wants to keep the baby.
Alfonso has told me he wants to stay with me.
Senor Medena wants us all down in the den in five minutes.
Alex had been attuned to her silent wants and needs because it was important to him.
When a man wants to know something, he simply asks.
When a woman wants to know, she looks for some clever way to trick the man into disclosing the facts.
Well, she's his only child and he wants an heir.
You get a warning from me, but Xander gets to deal with you how he wants.
Whatever Damian wants, the answer is no.
Give Xander what he wants.
You want someone who knows what he wants in a woman, knows how to please her and who appreciates your body.
Any chance they want what Jessi wants?
I just have to do what he wants, and it's over.
If you've been around him, you know he does whatever he wants.
You never know who to trust or who wants to hurt you, she said.
The selfish side of me wants to tell you to get away from him, because I want him to suffer.
After not a little hesitation, Hastings consented to allow the Company's troops to be used to further the ambitious designs of his Oudh ally, in consideration of a sum of money which relieved the ever-pressing wants of the Bengal treasury.
The ministry employs inspectors, whose duty it is to visit the different parts of the country and to report on their respective position and wants.
But beyond this the pastoralist learnt most effectually the lesson that, in a country like Australia, provision must be made for the occasional season when the rainfall is entirely inadequate to the wants of the farmer and the pastoralist.
It was held that the earth had been created so as to fit the wants of man in every particular.
The province produces much wheat, barley, rice, millet, cotton, but the authorities every now and then prohibiting the export of cereals, the people generally sow just as much as they think will suffice for their own wants.
No sooner had he returned home than he began the work of accumulation, and records that, on the receipt of his first quarter's allowance, a large share was appropriated to his literary wants.
In the beginning of the 13th century the foundation of the Dominican and Franciscan_ orders furnished a more ecclesiastical and regular means of supplying the same wants, and numerous convents sprang up at once throughout Germany.
Specially noteworthy in the Lezioni are the sections on human wants as the foundation of economical theory, on labour as the source of wealth, on personal services as economic factors, and on the united working of the great industrial functions.
Then, according as the spinner wants immediate delivery or delivery in some future month, he pays the price of current " futures," or of " futures " of the month in which he requires delivery, plus or minus the " points on or off " previously fixed.
But this theory wants verification.
He has to resist the temptations of the body, keeping it under strict control, and with the eye of the soul undimmed by corporeal wants and impulses, contemplate God the supreme good, and live a life according to reason.
Although 43.4% of the total area is arable land, the soil is only of moderate fertility and does not satisfy the wants of this thickly-populated province.
Care had been taken for the spiritual wants of the provinces by associating six Jesuits with the expedition.
The act passed in the reign of Queen Anne for building fifty new churches (1710) for a time supplied the wants of large districts.
The number of varieties of grapes possessing some merit is considerable, but a very few of them will be found sufficient to supply all the wants of the cultivator.
The former prophecy is closely linked to the situation and wants of the community of Jerusalem in the second year of Darius I., and relates to the restoration of the temple and, perhaps, the elevation of Zerubbabel to the throne of David.
A well-considered system of land-tenure and of colonization provided for the wants of all classes of the people.
In opposition to the general spirit of the 18th century he saw, by means of his historic sense, the naturalness of religion, its relation to man's wants and impulses.
Roebuck, the Radical member for Sheffield, gave notice that he would move for a select committee " to inquire into the condition of our army before Sevastopol, and into the conduct of those departments of the government whose duty it has been to minister to the wants of that army."
For when the state constituted itself virtually the sole owner of railways, it necessarily assumed responsibility for extending them so that they should suffice to meet the wants of a nation numbering some 50 millions.
The germs of an indigenous literature had existed at an early period in Rome and in the country districts of Italy, and they have an importance as indicating natural wants in the Italian race, which were ultimately satisfied by regular literary forms. The art of writing was first employed in the service of the state and of religion for books of ritual, treaties with other states, the laws of the Twelve Tables and the like.
But his private fortune more than sufficed for all his wants till his death on the 8th of October 1652.
It seems now surprising that vague counting by generations should so long have prevailed and satisfied the wants of inquiring men, and that so simple, precise and seemingly obvious a plan as counting by years, the largest natural division of time, did not occur to any investigator before Eratosthenes.
To supply their wants the Americans invented modifications in natural materials, the working of which was their industries.
Heat and cold, rain and drought, the winds in relation to the points of the compass, were nearest their wants and supplies, and were never out of their thoughts.
It seems that representations of deities, and indeed any representations at all, were rare upon the polished walls of the great monuments of the fourth dynasty, and Petrie thinks that he can trace a violent religious revolution with confiscation of endowments at this time in the temple remains at Abydos; but none the less the wants of the deities were then attended to by priests selected from the royal family and the highest in the land.
To meet their political wants the Constitution Act of 1852 created them into provinces, with elective councils and superintendents respectively, subordinated to one colonial legislature.
Louis Philippe abdicated and fled to England almost destitute, being smuggled over the Channel by the cleverness of the British consul at Havre, and the queen employed Sir Robert Peel as her intermediary for providing him with money to meet his immediate wants.
The polar or white bear (Ursus maritimus), common to the Arctic regions of both hemispheres, is distinguished from the other species by having the soles of the feet covered with close-set hairs, - in adaptation to the wants of the creature, the bear being thereby enabled to walk securely on slippery ice.
In Greek monachism the old Hellenic ideal of the wise man who has no wants (abraprcaa) was from the first fused with the Christian conception of unreserved self-surrender to God as the highest aim and the highest good.
There are no permanent rivers; but during the rainy season, from August to October, heavy floods convert the water-courses in the hollows of the mountains into broad and rapid streams. Numerous wells supply the wants of the people and their cattle.
Whatever he has, he wants it all for himself, because, the more 'he merits on earth (by Christ's grace) the greater is his glory in heaven.
Wherever it is possible to rear rice every other product is neglected; yet the quantity produced is not sufficient for the wants of the inhabitants.
These various substances are present in the proportions which render milk a perfect and typical food suitable to the wants of the young of the various animals for whom it is provided by nature.
When the division of labour has been established, each member of the society must have recourse to the others for the supply of most of his wants; a medium of exchange is thus found to be necessary, and money comes into use.
In what are commonly called loans of money, it is not really the money, but the money's worth, that the borrower wants; and the lender really assigns to him the right to a certain portion of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, As the general capital of a country increases, so also does the particular portion of it from which the possessors wish to derive a revenue without being at the trouble of employing it themselves, and, as the quantity of stock thus available for loans is augmented, the interest diminishes, not merely "from the general causes which make the market price of things commonly diminish as their quantity increases," but because, with the increase of capital, "it becomes gradually more and more difficult to find within the country a profitable method of employing any new capital" - whence arises a competition between different capitals, and a lowering of profits, which must diminish the price which can be paid for the use of capital, or in other words the rate of interest.
Manichaeism was thus able to satisfy the new wants of an old world.
In the earliest age of Christian monasticism the ascetics were accustomed to live singly, independent of one another, at no great distance from some village, supporting themselves by the labour of their own hands, and distributing the surplus after the supply of their own scanty wants to the poor.
The group of buildings connected with the material wants of the establishment is placed to the south and west of the church, and is distinctly separated from the monastic buildings.
Advancing into the inner court, the buildings devoted to hospitality are found close to the entrance; while those connected with the supply of the material wants of the brethren, - the kitchen, cellars, &c., - form a court of themselves outside the cloister and quite detached from the church.
After a short prayer, the abbot committed the guest to the care of the brother hospitaller, whose duty it was to provide for his wants and conduct the beast on which he numerary monks.
The subject wants further investigation, especially with a view to deciding the connexion between the molecular rush and the discharge.
Thus a West African native who wants a suhman takes a rudely-cut wooden image or a stone, a root of a plant, or some red earth placed in a pan, and then he calls on a spirit of Sasabonsum ("a genus of deities, every member of which possesses identical characteristics") to enter the object prepared, promising it offerings and worship. If a spirit consents to take up its residence in the object, a low hissing sound is heard, and the suhman is complete.
The industries are confined to the manufacture of woollen cloth of various degrees of fineness and colour, and called truk, tirma and lawa, to that of small rugs, pottery of an inferior quality, utensils of copper and iron, some of which show considerable artistic skill in design, and to such other small trades as are necessary to supply the limited wants of the people.
The wants, moreover, of the North American colonies did not escape the attention of Archbishop Laud during his official connexion with them as bishop of London, and he was developing a plan for promoting a local episcopate there when his troubles began and his scheme was interrupted.
Pelargoniums, cinerarias, calceolarias, cyclamens, camellias, heaths, roses and other specialities might thus have to themselves either a whole house or part of a house, the conditions of which could then be more accurately fitted to the wants of the inmates.
In despair, Lessing determined towards the end of his residence in Hamburg to quit Germany, believing that in Italy he might find congenial labour that would suffice for his wants.
The true evidence for what is essential in Christianity, he contends, is its adaptation to the wants of human nature; hence the religious spirit is undisturbed by the speculations of the boldest thinkers.
After local wants are supplied, there remains every year a surplus of about 31 million quarters of cereals for export.
With the sympathetic organization which made him keenly sensible of the wants of the poor, he threw himself heartily into the movement known as Christian Socialism, of which Frederick Denison Maurice was the recognized leader, and for many years he was considered as an extreme radical in a profession the traditions of which were conservative.
It appears, however, that these two establishments were found inadequate to supply the wants of the inhabitants, and a third edifice of the same character, the socalled central baths, at the corner of the Strada Stabiana and the Strada di Nola, but on a still more extensive scale, intended for men only, while the other two had separate accommodation for both sexes, was in course of construction when the town was overwhelmed.
He never forgot the generosity with which Hervey, who was now residing in London, relieved his wants during this time of trial.
It was still necessary for the man who had been formerly saluted by the highest authority as dictator of the English language to supply his wants by constant toil.
He left the Daltons, and wandered from place to place, resting when he found friends to provide for his wants.
Consequently, in order to meet new expenditure necessitated by the growing wants of a country in process of development, just double the amount of revenue had to be raised.
Moulded into brick, without burning, this black clay also supplied the common wants of the builder, and even the palaces of the greatest kings were constructed of crude brick.
These reforms profoundly modified and in some cases abolished older organizations which had grown inadequate to modern wants.
He believed that life was an expanding, growing force, and that animals responded to the environment by developing new wants, seeking to satisfy these by new movements and thus by their own striving producing new organs which were transmitted to their descendants.
It is his business to look after the pack which is not hunting, to walk them out, to prepare the food for the hunting pack so that it is ready when they return, and in the spring to attend to the wants of the matrons and whelps.
The indigenous methods of smelting the ore, which are everywhere the same, and have been handed down unchanged through countless generations, yield a metal of the finest quality in a form well suited to native wants.
Crowds of petty traders attend, bringing all those miscellaneous articles that can be packed into a pedlar's wallet; and the neighbouring villagers look forward to the occasion to satisfy alike their curiosity and their household wants.
It is smaller than the true civet, and wants the dorsal crest.
The manufacturing industry consists mainly in preparing agricultural products for market, and in the production by the natives of wearing apparel, furniture, household utensils, and other articles required to supply their primitive wants.
Mansur wrote in his testament to his son that he had brought together so much money that, even if no revenue should come in for ten years, it would suffice for all the wants of the state.
Becker is an attempt in a similar direction, but, though superior in scholarship, it wants the charm of style of the Anacharsis.
The records of the Church are also filled with the efforts of Jesus' followers to heal the diseases and satisfy the wants of men.
The surface of the islands is generally sandy, the soil thin and the climate keen; yet Scotch fir, spruce and birch are grown; and rye, barley, flax and vegetables are produced in sufficient quantity for the wants of the people.
That this is the case at Chidambaram is known to every Hindu, for if he ever asks the priests to show him the God in the temple he is pointed to an empty space in the holy of holies, which has been termed the Akasa, or ether-linga."But, however congenial this refined symbolism may be to the worshipper of a speculative turn of mind, it is difficult to see how it could ever satisfy the religious wants of the common man little given to abstract conceptions of this kind.
To meet the wants of this class, Allon published the original edition of his wellknown Congregational Psalmist.
The treasury is the centre towards which the special receipts of the ruler or rulers should be brought, and from it the public wants should be supplied.
In order to meet the unified public wants, an equally unified public fund was requisite.
It was originally formed to collect information regarding the spiritual wants of the country, and to apply to the government to build the churches found to be necessary.
The 1 Those branches of the church extension scheme which dealt with church building, and with the opening of new missions to meet the wants of increasing populations, were taken up by a new department, called the Home Mission scheme.
In the weakening of that authority which had been ascribed almost unanimously to the Talmud, and invariably to the Old Testament, a new and greater strain has been laid upon Judaism to reinterpret its spirit once more to answer the diverse wants of its adherents.
He raises sufficient food for his wants with very little labour, and, with the exception of a few religious ceremonies, he has no demand made upon him for money, saving the light rental of his fields.
Like every Jew, Spinoza had learned a handicraft; he was a grinder of lenses for optical instruments, and was thus enabled to earn an income sufficient for his modest wants.
Various streets have been laid out, a large hotel erected for the reception of the visitors who resort to the place as a sanatorium in summer, and the religious wants of the community are supplied by a Roman Catholic and a Protestant church.
Four of the nominated members are selected on the ground mainly of their thorough acquaintance with " the reasonable wants and wishes " of the coloured races in South Africa.
But his style altogether wants the charm of ease and simplicity.
The manufactures of Heidelberg include cigars, leather, cement, surgical instruments and beer, but the inhabitants chiefly support themselves by supplying the wants of a large and increasing body of foreign permanent residents, of the considerable number of tourists who during the summer pass through the town, and of the university students.
Shortly after the formation of the new kingdom of Italy attention was called to the insufficiency of the harbour for modern wants; and new works were begun in 1862.
We see him full of tenderness to animals, a virtue not common in Italy in spite of the example of St Francis; open-handed in giving, not eager in getting- "poor," he says, "is the man of many wants"; not prone to resentment - "the best shield against injustice is to double the cloak of long-suffering"; zealous in labour above all men - "as a day well spent gives joyful sleep, so does a life well spent give joyful death."
At the same time it wants unity and coherence, it attains no conclusion, and the author abuses his digressive method of composition and his convenient fiction of hiatuses in the original manuscript.
One of the chief wants of Ireland in that day, and for many a day afterwards, was that of small currency adapted to the daily transactions of life.
The salt range contains the great mines of Mayo, Warcha and Kalabagh, which yield an inexhaustible supply of salt, and supply the wants of all Northern India.
Great quantities of paddi are annually sent by river and rail to Bangkok, in return for which cloth and other goods are imported to supply the wants of the agriculturist peasantry.
If any land remained after satisfying the wants of the peasants, it was to be sold by public auction in lots of 50 to 622 acres.
Near Ribnik and elsewhere were salt-mines which supplied all the wants of the Transdanubian provinces of Turkey; there were considerable copper mines at Maidan; and iron was worked near Tirgovishtea.
Here he is said to have been obliged to pawn his treasures for 50 gold florins to provide for his immediate wants.
Do you imagine that I am not able to supply the wants of so many mendicants?"
Their wants were few, they lacked enterprise, and the trade of the colony was restricted.
To render the organization of this creature perfect in relation to its wants, it is provided with three long filaments inserted along the middle of the head, which are, in fact, the detached and modified three first spines of the anterior dorsal fin.
I designed the whole to consist of three books; the second was finished last summer being short, and only wants transcribing, and drawing the cuts fairly.
The third wants the theory of comets.
If the mass of the nation was not conscious of political wants, it was conscious of material wants.
Their food must be purchased with money lawfully acquired; and lest they should unwittingly partake of any that is ceremonially unclean, they require those Jahels, whose hospitality they share, to supply their wants from a store set apart for their exclusive use.
Schools are being diligently built; but the wants of the natives are subordinated to the supposed necessities of Russification.
There is no logical connexion between this theory and the doctrine that appetite of desire has always pleasure (or the absence of pain) for its object; but a materialist, framing a system of psychology, will naturally direct his attention to the impulses arising out of bodily wants, whose obvious end is the preservation of the agent's organism; and this, together with a philosophic wish to simplify, may lead him to the conclusion that all human impulses are similarly self-regarding.
Soon after death food is offered to the departed - with an infant a calabash of its mother's milk - and that he may have no wants, his earthly possessions, after being broken, are laid near his restingplace.
He was thus placed in a position suited to his powers and in domestic and social surroundings adapted to meet the wants of his rich nature.
The heroic but foolhardy attempt of the brothers Bandiera, Venetians who had served in the Austrian navy against the Neapolitan Bourbons in 1844, was the first event to cause an awakening of Venetian patriotism, and in 1847 Manin presented a petition to the Venetian congregation, a shadowy consultative assembly tolerated by Austria but without any power, informing the emperor of the wants of the nation.
But this loss has been to a great extent compensated by the expansion of the home market for cotton, and the Spanish manufacturers are unable to meet the wants of the population, large quantities of cotton goods being imported every year.
Where wants are few and simple, where houses need not be built nor clothes worn to keep out the cold, there is little stimulus to exertion.
As to the general state of the country Sir Eldon Gorst after a tour of inspection declared in his report for 1909, " I do not suppose that there is any part of the world in which the mass of the population have fewer unsatisfied wants."
A well-made horse wants dissecting in detail, and then if a good judge can discover no fault with any part, but finds each of good proportions, and the whole to harmonize without defect, deformity or deficiency, he has before him a well-shaped horse; and of two equally well-made and equitably proportioned horses the best bred one will be the best.
You. She obviously wants you to stay.
If one of your sisters gets married and has a boy, Señor Medena might change his mind about whom he wants to inherit the estate.
Never again will I oppose any woman he wants to marry - but I hope the next time, it's someone like you.
All she wants to do is utilize this present from the gods to the maximum benefit of mankind without interference and assault on her simple life.
Talon would've been happy blowing her up, if she'd been there, but Czerno wants her.
Talon wants him to kill Czerno, but wouldn't that make Jonny the Black God and not Talon?
I'm beginning to understand why the … why your father wants you.
The email said she'd be ready soon for the procedure Czerno wants her to undergo.
Czerno wants this done his way, not mine.
A creature that powerful has no need to lie, until he wants to lure you to Hell.
If he wants access to my domain, he will deal with me directly, not prey on your weaknesses.
If Darkyn wants it, it's gotta be past-Death.
Obey the psycho demon that wants to suck my blood.
Doesn't seem like the type who wants to be slowed down by a liability like that, Katie mused.
Tell Kris—next time he wants something—to call instead of sending this animal.
He just wants to haul her back to home and hearth, where she belongs.
But now, all she wants to do is— have sex with me, like we're still kids and she can turn the clock back to hot nights and summer camp.
I agree with Dan—someone in the government wants to start another civil war.
Nobody wants him but me, Carmen — and I had hoped, you.
I'm more interested in what an Other wants from a lowly Guardian.
I know the warlord of Tiyan wants nothing to do with a slave, but it will not take them long to learn who you are.
But I have something your father wants, and I have something you need if you are earnest about saving your people.
He hates his father, but he wants Landis.
He won't ally with anyone who wants to destroy Landis.
He wants to rent your house – he and a couple of other guys.
Did you know Jonathan told our twins that Alex wants to get him a cell phone but you're being a … unreasonable about it?
Besides, we have a land line if he really wants to talk to me – and he obviously doesn't.
Jonny wants the sole existing Tracker back, and Darian wants to kill the Watchers.
She doesn't know what she wants, and she's trying to protect you both from some psycho vampire TV star.
She wants to be and decided to experiment one day.
Steve tells Catherine he wants to plead manslaughter on grounds of temporary insanity, but she looks dubious about the idea.
But he felt they had to show more guile in Europe, and ultimately that is where he wants his formation to be judged.
Suppose the network administrator wants to use bits 8 to 25 to identify the subnet, leaving 26 to 31 for host addresses.
The only reason, it is clear, why no one hijacks aeroplanes out of Heathrow is that no one particularly wants to.
Papert sincerely wants to escape the one-sidedness of an overly analytical, abstract approach to learning.
Billy and Ally defend a woman whose husband wants an annulment.
So the relationship has to be an equable one - for who wants to be locked into mutual antagonism for a decade?
My 1967 mind wants to say " Man, you have never heard anything like it!
She stated, Jamie never wants to eat anything I fix for dinner.
Problem is, she's not the only mutant who wants to get her hands on this potentially apocalyptic bio-weapon!
I must never appease his wants; If I succumb, he will consume my existence with relish.
Someone on the dig team wants to steal valuable artifacts and smuggle them to the United States to sell on the black market.
A deadly assassin, who wants to murder a prosecution witness on a plane, releases a whole crate full of vicious snakes!
Also a great base for anyone who enjoys horse riding who wants something wonderfully authentic and different.
The hidden backdoors allow easy access any time the attacker wants back in.
Is a blood and Thai basil he wants to.
Assume our better half wants us to build a garden in the yard, but we want to watch basketball.
If you do it every time, s/he will learn that if s/he wants to play there must be no biting.
To W magazine on Boy George " Who wants to see that big blob on telly?
He really wants to rub home to the Corinthians that Jesus rose bodily from death.
The Friends Provident with-profits bond will likely have penalties for anyone who wants to exit in the first five years, says Ms Bowes.
Be considerate when lighting bonfires or having a barbecue, not everyone wants their washing to smell of smoke and charred sausages!
Seems to me that's about all the little bounder wants doing to it.
Kate Bosworth has hinted she wants to marry boyfriend Orlando Bloom.
Now the former headhunter wants not only to keep Polish talent in Poland, but to reverse the brain drain.
The average Brit just bulldozes through life, and houses, doing exactly what he wants, irrespective of the lasting damage.
It wants to do deals with sections of the labor bureaucracy instead.
It's following an obvious strategic decision that it wants a nuclear weapons capability.
I was once a splendid war-horse, gaily caparisoned, and attended by a groom whose sole duty was to see to my wants.
The three year period is the set time period when BT wants all the initial capital expenditure to have being paid back.
Who wants pie and chips and beer when you can have liver, fava beans and a nice Chianti?