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How to use the word DESIRES in a Sentence? Page #3

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The question that I would ask every parent to think about is how can I set limits for my child, whether it's a 6-year-old or a 12-year-old or an 18-year-old, and these might even be artificial limits, but how can I set limits such that my child will have the maximum amount of control over these intense material desires that many of them have ?

Ron Lieber

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Try to fulfill your dreams and desires. Our lifespan is too short to relax.

Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
6 years ago

We create a persona, a building holding all the apartments that are our quirks and our dreams and our desires, and we walk around the world hoping to connect, but hoping, above all, to not be hurt.

Marlon Brando

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

It is simply bad public policy to be spending public funds at a time when everyone is strapped for cash and cannot fund the money for vital services. Even if they are relatively small funders, they are directing much-needed resources from schools and roads to meet the political desires of lawmakers.

Ira Mehlman

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There are certain strains [of weed] -- you get a nice indica on a Friday night when it's date night, and it takes down your inhibitions, your sexual desires are enhanced. I recommend this for relationships.

Melissa Etheridge

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Cannabis is the best marital aid, when it’s date night … It takes down your inhibition; your sexual desires are enhanced. We take a bath every night and smoke and talk and wind down and sleep a very, very good night sleep — and sleep is extremely important.

Melissa Etheridge

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I believe the Universe desires for us to choose to love as much as possible while we are here.

Renae A. Sauter

added by createfate
7 years ago

Every feeling that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when it concentrates itself on the present. The miserable wants, the small desires, and the petty pleasures of daily existence have nothing in common with those mighty dreams which, looking forward for action and action's reward, redeem the earth over which they walk with steps like those of an angel, beneath which spring up glorious and immortal flowers. The imagination is man's noblest and most spiritual faculty ; and that ever dwells on the to-come.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

'Food and sex are the basic desires of humans,' and the phrase has not changed in more than 5,000 years, 'Release your basic instincts' and 'Liberate yourself' are the two concepts we used as the basis for the restaurant.

Lu Lu

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We have a good shot on goal with HE, we want to shoot the puck. If we do that and we score, then our other desires in the field of cannabinoid therapeutics can become self-evident.

Dean Petkanas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Well you know you're never going to get any one candidate that fulfills all your desires, i think it means a lot, what you've done, you can say anything but what you've done is what really counts I think.

Steve Richardson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We cannot let children pay for the desires or caprices of adults. Children need to have a father and a mother.

Simone Pillon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I long for the moment, when I'll wake up and he's here next to me. Eating at my table, eating whatever he desires, and not having to worry about anything.

Jose Raul Gonzalez

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Two films of Luke Skywalker story, two films of Anakin's story, then a single film that intertwines and ends both stories. i think Episode VII looks pretty good, at least from the marketing material. It seems pretty clear that JJ Abrams is being very mindful of the desires of fans, which I think is going to be well-received.

Rod Hilton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Don’t be quick to translate your desires into plans, leave room for God.

sindiswa matyobeni

added by anonymous
8 years ago

They are simply people in search of a better life, they are just like us. They have the same desires and needs.

Giovanni Drago

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Data management that drives marketing and sales continues to evolve and get better, it’s not just about segmenting and studying anymore -- more and more, good marketing is about using Your Data to understand your customer and seamlessly and instantly adapt to their desires and demands.

Paul Becker

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Historically, diplomatic activity in this conflict has increased in response to violence, the U.S. is shifting from largely ignoring this conflict to sending the secretary of state to reinvest in dealing with it. That is something Abbas desires. But the risks that attend this upsurge are much greater for him than the potential benefits.

Nathan Thrall

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One size fits all wasn't fair, non-normative desires make people feel like freaks or alone.

Dan Savage

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It makes people with normative desires feel panicked the way it used to those with other desires.

Dan Savage

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is being driven by customer desires for more cooked meat product, we haven't been able to meet the demand so far, and now we can.

Cargill Inc

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Sow the seeds of your intentions and desires, on the banks of time and then wait for the right season & rest. See them then, effortlessly sprout into beautiful gardens, majestic trees and enchanting forests . The labor of love always fructifies, life will always MickeyMize.

Mickey Mehta

added by Mickeymized
8 years ago

The idea of four people in a house dealing with each other is potentially inept unless the absorbed force of their own desires is questioned by a clash with reality, pantelleria as a sort of border place is really demanding to be understood by these characters and is asking them to pose themselves these ethical questions.

Luca Guadagnino

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Let's pray to the elements like children again. Oh earth, as all grows out of you...let me grow too, oh sky, I too wish to rise high...oh water, let me go...with the flow, oh fire, let me evolve and dissolve all desires...oh air, bring me all blessings from this universe to share...oh ether, please raise my spiritual meter! Let our prayers be revolutionized, get MickeyMized.

Mickey Mehta

added by Mickeymized
8 years ago

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