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Example sentences for: wanted

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(At Wednesday's press conference he claimed that, although the first lady would be campaigning in New York and the first man would be stuck in Washington, what they really wanted was to be together.)
If Starr wanted to use an intermediary, diGenova would be a good bet.
Weber wanted to compare aspects of charismatic authority with aspects of his other two types of authority.
[ 1 4 ] It also is possible that a reporting bias may have falsely increased the apparent success of hypnosis in this study, because patients wanted to please their treating physician.
Liberals have been like the pre-Civil War Whigs, at least as rendered by Louis Hartz in his classic Liberal Tradition in America . The Whigs kept seeing the proles through the lens of Europe's old feudal societies, imagining that America's lower orders wanted to seize property rather than acquire it.