Would-have-liked-to Sentence Examples

It was something she would have liked to do, but Alex insisted that it was too dangerous.

He would have liked to organize a big move against the Bolsheviks from the west, but such a move could not be made while the Entente Powers were resolved to keep Germany out, and while they sympathized with all the new organizations hostile to RussiaEsthonia, Latvia and Poland.

His visiting espionage, as unkind critics put it - his secret diplomatic mission, as he would have liked to have it put himself - began in the summer of 1722, and he set out for it in company with a certain Madame de Rupelmonde, to whom he as usual made love, taught deism and served as an amusing travelling companion.

For, though that celebrated personage would have liked to be called, not " sophist " but " political philosopher," and tried to fasten the name of " sophist " upon his opponents the Socratics, it is clear from his own statement that he was commonly ranked with the sophists, and that he had no claim, except on the score of superior popularity and success, to be dissociated from the other teachers of political rhetoric. It is true that he was not a political sophist of the vulgar type, that as a theorist he was honest and patriotic, and that, in addition to his fame as a teacher, he had a distinct reputation as a man of letters; but he was a professor of political rhetoric, and, as such, in the phraseology of the day, a sophist.

He would have liked to make parliament, no doubt, a mere meeting for the voting of taxation with the smallest possible friction.

He would have liked to think his ego had caused the rage, but he knew it was something much more complicated.

I would have liked to have seen a graph or a table for dissolved oxygen concentrations in surface seawater included.

She knew that I was much troubled, and would have liked to stay near me; but I thought it best for her to sit by herself.

She also felt a Greek chariot, and the charioteer would have liked to take her round the ring; but she was afraid of "many swift horses."

Pierre would have liked to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride subscribed the same amount as the others.

It was as if Prince Andrew would have liked to sympathize with what Pierre was saying, but could not.

I would have liked to say Peterson 490 strobe tuner but have to say Peterson VS-1.

This led to small roles on television and film, but Depp felt that he wasn't getting as many parts as he would have liked to.

I would have liked to see things from different angles, but this flaw is common in these types of games.

However, it did prevent him from taking role after role that he would have liked to have taken, and that would have significantly advanced his career.

Think about your own children or your own childhood and what you would have liked to receive as a youngster.

I would have liked to see a completely computer animated Phoenix instead of the obviously fake model bird used in the scenes with the actors.

The deeply sad opening to the second movement was so well sculpted we would have liked to hear more.