How To Use Wish In A Sentence

  • The Temple to the Hebrew God YHVH, built by King David, was destroyed and much of the Jewish population (Jew comes from the word Judah, one of the 12 tribes) were deported to Babylon, known to Jews as the Babylonian captivity. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • The Girl relucted a little, upon which he gave her 3 Guineas, and wished he might be damned if he did not have her in 3 months. John Adams diary 1, 18 November 1755 - 29 August 1756
  • And while everyone around wished the couple a happy married life, one of the guests decided to be a little cheeky.
  • I am from the Jewish origin and I can talk a lot about Jewish trends including a paranoidal fear that 'someone will get us this time.' OpEdNews - Diary: Black Americans Don't Get It
  • Add a little freshly sliced green chilli or a hint of chilli powder if you wish. Times, Sunday Times
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  • ‘If you've no wish to sell the charcoals,’ Rachel began, ‘I don't at all blame you.'
  • The thanatological philosophies of spirit that Schelling here wishes were dead are in fact very much alivehence the reiterated forcefulness of his censure. Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
  • I do sometimes wish we could flag posts that are in some way related to post flags, when I'm feeling a bit daffy, which is always. MetaTalk
  • I wish people would bother to learn some history instead of regurgitating propaganda.
  • Both favour the no-frills approach, often eschewing swish restaurants to munch burgers together when they meet. Times, Sunday Times
  • They've deliberately gone against my wishes and sold the apartment.
  • Ideas for friends to run a restaurant seem like wishful thinking but they may just work. The Sun
  • My best wishes for your success in the examination and look forward to hearing in due course that you have passed.
  • Word can say so little when someone cares so much. Mother,I'm wishing that these were a way to tell you the things that I'd so like to say How thankful I am and how very proud,too,to have a wonderful mother like you.
  • He may also wish to think about income protection and critical illness insurance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many teachers wish to abolish the cane.
  • Wish you success in your career and happiness of your family!
  • On the taxes proposed she said, "Those concerned by our wish list's ` nanny state 'implications might helpfully redirect their focus to the many unseen measures intentionally adopted by the food industry to shape our behaviour … It seems that without our knowledge or consent we are subject to the pervasive' nannying 'activities of industry. THE MEDICAL NEWS
  • Most teachers, in colleges that don’t restrict it, will be delighted to have an interested, if unmatriculated, student in their class who sincerely wishes to learn. Letter to the St. Petersburg Times on ID Poll - The Panda's Thumb
  • Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress day by day!
  • A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. C.S. Lewis 
  • ‘I only wish farmers could be fully compensated for the incompetence, inefficiency and neglect of the Department over which Mrs Beckett presides,’ he said.
  • I compassionated him, and sometimes felt a wish to console him; but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. Chapter 17
  • We are extremely delighted to hear of your scholarship to Beijing University.You are worthy of success.Best wishes for your bright future.
  • Certainly observant Jews remember the crusaders as evil butchers, who on their way to Jerusalem, slaughtered and massacred many thousands of Jews and decimated entire Jewish communities such as Speyer, Worms and Mayencea and of course, when they arrived in Jerusalem, put the holy Jews of the city to the sword. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • But the settlements prevailed, delusory shortcuts to a palpable proof that the Jewish people were truly blessed by God. The Chosen Peoples
  • Be genuine and conceal noting.I write every wiod I wand to say on this small card.I wish my honey a happy Valentine's day.
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  • On this special day that belongs to you,I'd like to tell you the happiness we share means more than I can show.With all my heart,I'm wishing the joy the whole year through.Happiness always!
  • My birthday wishes to you are the warmest.May all the plans you are making work out just right for you and may life always bring the best things your way.
  • We do not wish her to grow up dumb like the average doll.
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  • Though there is ever-present sadness the poet still wishes to "whip in kitchen cups concupiscent curds. Kazim Ali: From East Jerusalem to Ramallah
  • I had mixed feelings when I learned of your new assignment. Although we will miss you, we have to admit that management has made a wise choice in placing you where they can benefit most from your talents. We will long remember the hard work and happy moments we have shared. You have been a great team member. Best wishes and keep up the good work.
  • The commanding general wishes to talk to her himself, but it is of low priority, with the fight so close at hand.
  • Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress every day!
  • Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress day by day!
  • ‘I wish I was rich enough to use fivers as scrap paper,’ remarked Caroline.
  • The modern historian sees greater variety than the thesis's defenders wished to concede.
  • Here comes today with special pride in all the achievements you have made.May your dearest wishes through all the years in store come true,and make you happier than you have ever been before.
  • From death metal to violins and Jewish harps, folk music, punk, soul, reggae and gospel, we've got it all.
  • If you wish to ascertain if a woman be with child, give her hydromel to drink when she is going to sleep, and has not taken supper, and if she be seized with tormina in the belly, she is with child, but otherwise she is not pregnant. Aphorisms
  • Their pleasures derive from fulfilling internal wishes and desires and they find solitude easy to bear. Know Your Own Mind
  • But the lowish ceilings are a giveaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • The synagogue is renowned for its bright white exterior and lion-headed gargoyles, which are unusual because animal forms are rarely used in Jewish art.
  • Flick the years of dust, to laughter and tears, love and cemented in the minds of a thick crystal amber. I wish happy new year! I wish you the new year: don't gain weight, before the person you most Qiao; money in hand, laughing in the dream.
  • Their proposal to the Jewish council of religious leaders also called the Sanhedrin that they cooperate in getting rid of this troublemaker was met with enthusiasm. Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible
  • Note: I'm very happy to discuss neutrino resolution of neutrino telecopy if you wish! SDO On Station Transmitting First Data as Solar Science Payloads Open Today | Universe Today
  • I wish they would hurry up their work, otherwise I have to work extra hours with them.
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  • Shaun recently released a new album titled "Shaun Wish" all over Asia. His band consist of guitarist Li Shengzhi, bassist Tico, keyboardist Jumbo and drummer Bill.
  • Possibly in a bid to allay fears that nationalism and protectionism were driving the agenda--though it's hard to wonder how they couldn't in a country whose motto translates as "we wish to remain what we are"--a Luxembourg minister said on Tuesday that the takeover law, which it plans to enact in May, was in no way aimed at creating impediments to Mittal's play for Arcelor. Luxembourg Minister: We're Not Trying To Stop Mittal
  • This continued until war broke out and when war broke out, General Hertzog, again with his strong feeling of South Africanism, said, "While we do not wish to be disassociated from the British Empire, while we are willing to remain with the British Empire on the same footing as heretofore, we do not see why we should declare war now, why we should not maintain neutrality and the status quo, even though Great Britain go into war. Racial Relations in the Union of South Africa
  • So it was that I wished, with this child, for a cuddler. Arms And The Mom | Her Bad Mother
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  • At one of those remarkable omnium-gatherum receptions at the Tuileries, of which I have spoken in a former chapter, she heard an American lady, to whom Louis Philippe was talking of his American recollections and of various persons he had known there, say to him, “Oh, sire, they all retain the most lively recollections of your majesty's sojourn among them, and wish nothing more than that you should return among them again!” What I Remember
  • The segments differ from each other as regards refraction and in their behavior toward coloring reagents; the inner segment is stained by carmine, iodine, etc.; the outer segment is not stained by these reagents, but is colored yellowish brown by osmic acid. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 1. The Tunics of the Eye
  • It was his express wish that you should have his gold watch after he died.
  • Of all the Jewish holidays, Passover is my favorite. April 2008
  • Old dandies with creaking joints tottered along Piccadilly to their certain doom; young clerks in the city, explaining that they wished to attend their aunt's funeral, crowded the omnibuses for Kensington and were seen no more; while my mother tells me that excursion trains from the country were arriving at the principal stations throughout the day, bearing huge loads of provincial inamorati. The War of the Wenuses
  • Moreover, in the case of conations, and in any other cases where it applies, see if the word ‘apparent’ is left out, e.g. ‘wishing is a conation after the good’, or Topics
  • Without wishing to be unkind, it was student vegetable gloop (carrot, courgette, mushroom, turnip and barley in tomato sauce) with little herby scone things on the top.
  • The F400 uses a pushrod design and all the wishbones are aerodynamically shaped.
  • Girls wishing to join Brownies should attend on Thursday 22nd.
  • He refused to do so and insisted that he wished to re-enter the house.
  • Wish you a whole world of happiness now that your birthday is here.May your memories today be warm ones.May your dreams today be dear.may your joy last through the year.
  • She did not wish even to think about it, and least of all in connexion with that matter. The Mother
  • What looked like flour-sacks were piled in one section of it, and the floor was dusted with yellowish powder.
  • This is just a short note to wish you all a very successful, productive and prosperous New Year.
  • A derelict synagogue may not be visible in the bazaar, but a Jewish cemetery is accessible on the city outskirts. Magda Abu-Fadil: Lebanon's Jews: Loyalty to Whom? BBC Documentary Tracks Vanished Community
  • Any members who wish to perform a dance sing a song or entertain on the night are welcome.
  • Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress day by day!
  • The building supports environmentally minded commuters by providing showers for bicyclers and accommodating employees who wish to take the bus.
  • In his weekly post, Williamson wrote that "the killing of Jesus was truly 'deicide' " and that "only the Jews leaders and people were the prime agents of the deicide because it is obvious from the gospels that the gentile most involved, Pontius Pilate, … would never have condemned Jesus to death had not the Jewish leaders roused the Jewish people to clamour for his crucifixion. Bishop's blog raises tensions between Jews and the Vatican
  • Making ourselves miserable by these cravings and wishes is the unwholesome pattern of envy.
  • Carlo lit a cigarette, and wishing the old woman a merry "addio" left and descended the stairs. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
  • I had mixed feelings when I learned of your new assignment. Although we will miss you, we have to admit that management has made a wise choice in placing you where they can benefit most from your talents. We will long remember the hard work and happy moments we have shared. You have been a great team member. Best wishes and keep up the good work.
  • I wish you to tie the knot, a harmonious union lasting a hundred years! A happy newlywed, sweet sweet honey!
  • A female puppet with a fine, domed forehead entered, swishing black velvet.
  • The scandal of Christian theology, of Jesus' particularity, Keck argues, must be considered in view of Jesus' Jewishness.
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  • Saul Bellow is the greatest Jewish American writer after Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner died.
  • Above all, she has the confidence to slow the narrative tempo down almost to zero: a condition of stasis in which the moment is held, like a musical note, for as long as she wishes it.
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  • Shakily I splashed some cold water onto my stricken face, wishing the cold liquid to act as a reality check, maybe even wake me up from this painfully real nightmare.
  • I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. Mother Teresa 
  • In 1884, the first newspaper in Ladino - the language of Sephardic Jews - was founded, although in time all Jewish newspapers in the country published in Bulgarian.
  • Which made for a nice complement to another underwhelming, uninspired production from Graham Vick who once again drums up some gray walls to contain the action and wishes everyone the best of luck. Archive 2008-06-01
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  • A terrible disservice is done to the half-million to one million non-Jewish parents helping to raise Jewish children whenever our community commissions yet another study to demonstrate how different the intermarried are from the in-married. Paul Golin: What Is the Biggest Divide in the Jewish Community?
  • She wishes to pursue a medical career.
  • Whatever the reason, I'll be wishing him well because, in our adversarial, interrogative culture, there's still a place for Parkinson's gentlemanly, self-effacing approach.
  • Viewing it from all angles the point is, it is discriminative criteria to reject siblings of non Jewish mothers on the logical basis that no female line could possibly hereditarily claim pure Jewish roots going back five thousand years. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • I wish I could magic us away to a warm beach.
  • With best wishes for a happy New Year!
  • I just wish to hell one of the bennies was a salary, she thought wistfully. Children Of The Night
  • Having your house broken into is terrible. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
  • May I take this opportunity to wish all NLM readers a very happy and blessed Easter, in the words of the EF Martyrology: Hac die, quam fecit Dominus, Solemnitas solemnitatum, et Pascha nostrum: Resurrectio Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi secundum carnem. Papal Easter Day Mass and Urbi et Orbi Blessing
  • I must however caution that financial and other constraints compel us to plan more conservatively than I imagine you would wish.
  • Lamptey attempted to reconcile with them and he acceded to his father's dying wish to reconvert to Christianity, but he was pained at the funerals when he 'had to bury them both alone'.
  • For example, it would be impermissible for the Society because it did not wish to offer annuities itself to use its discretion as to bonuses to make it more attractive for the policy holder to use another provider.
  • Best wishes and sincere congratulations on your graduation.May this special day be the commencement of the continued series of upward steps to further success.
  • Which obseruances and ceremonies performed and brought to end, they returned streightwaies to their ships, and as soone as the wind served, passed forward on their iournie with great ioy and gladnesse, as men put in comfort to find out the wished seats for their firme and sure Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8)
  • By the way, did you know that there really was a wall in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem that divided Jews from Gentiles?
  • Hooping. org wishes everyone a whirly Wednesday, especially those of you in Rochester, New York, who attend the Whirly Wednesday Hoop Jams at 7pm in Genesee Valley Park. Hooping.org | Blog | Whirly Wednesdays
  • Jewish and Gentile people did not eat with one another in the first century.
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  • I wish to dissociate myself from Mr Irvine's remarks.
  • They were not very varied in design and the emphasis was on good luck charms such as four-leaf clovers, horseshoes and wishbones, again set with tiny diamonds.
  • She waited for him to invite her to dance, not wishing to seem bold.
  • He will be sadly missed from the sport, and will climb Everest with fervent wishes for safety and success. Times, Sunday Times
  • He turned up at the swish hotel suite to meet us all by himself, with no fuss and no entourage, and was utterly charming. The Sun
  • If, on examination, all is found to be going on well, reimmerse the cathodes, and continue plating till they appear of a dull yellowish brown (this will occur in about four minutes), then remove them, rinse and scratch-brush them, and replace them in the bath. On Laboratory Arts
  • I only wish that some one had opened the exit door before I passed through it.
  • Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress every day!
  • I extend my best wishes for your career. As a HR expert, your guidance will help the team in America. They have got the right person for the position. Wish you a smooth sailing ahead and a path full of joy, May all your dreams come true in the future!
  • She tugged at Rob's sleeve with just enough force to suggest that she would tug much harder if he did not comply with her wishes.
  • This problem, which has vexed Jewish philosophers since Philo Judaeus, had recently received elaborate treatment by Maimonides. Gersonides
  • I do not wish to complicate the task more than is necessary.
  • Jewish life is poignantly described in Wiesel's journal, "The Jews of Silence".
  • May you keep in good health and good spirit both on your birthday and all through the year.Hope your birthday is happy and your wishes all come true.
  • Jewish culture in flea markets, used records stores, and auctions all over. Aaron Ciechanover - Autobiography
  • We wish we could stop at this point and go on to something easier. Principles of Corporate Finance
  • But if lawyers and solicitors wish themselves to be identified as men of noble standing and exemplariness then they deserve the kind of reverence they will yield from the public should they decide to embrace Karpal Singh's call to sieve out bad hats. Malaysiakini :: News
  • You will be astounded to hear the initiative was taken by an entrepreneur wishing to boost the sale of postage stamps. Times, Sunday Times
  • Much as I wish I could take credit for the word "matriotism," another woman wrote to me and gave me the concept. Cindy Sheehan: Matriotism
  • Feel smug about that if you wish. Times, Sunday Times
  • They might also expect a return visit from an official with a search warrant wishing to verify the truth of the destruction assertion. ill lich TSA subpoenas, threatens two bloggers who published non-classified airline security directive Boing Boing
  • He thought within himself what she could mean by this, and yet, wishing to obey her, he began in joyous mood, "O vernalis rosula. The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself.
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  • They display their techniques by swishing their swords around in synchronisation.
  • Any scholar wishing to understand the future lawmaking challenges facing this African state would be well-advised to read this book.
  • Several in company checked him from time to time for his bitter reflections instead of arguments, and wished him, if he could to answer my arguments, which he called sophistry, assuring him that until he did, they must receive my opinion and arguments as scriptural and sound reasoning. Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.
  • In psychology, sociology, and cultural criticism the term alienation would be popularized primarily by Jewish thinkers. Emancipation
  • She was being ridiculous, isolating him like this, all because of one teensy tiny stupid little question that he wished he'd never asked!
  • While there are plenty of party girls still sporting low-slung bell bottoms, the hippest in the crowd are swishing around in kicky full skirts, miniskirts and skirts with dipping hemlines.
  • I kiss Bob and the kids good-bye, wish them a fun and safe day, and listen to them swish in their nylon shell pants and clomp in their heavy boots out the door. Left Neglected
  • Graduation is a time for rejoining and is also a time for reflection.You will be going out into the world to make a career for yourself.Wish you well in all your understandings and hope that you will find your career a source of great joy and happiness.
  • Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress every day!
  • If anyone can help to reawaken people's interest and support in Christianity, our new archbishop certainly can - and I wish him well in his new and elevated position.
  • The watermen of the Mississippi delta will tell you that if you wish to gauge the magnitude of a vessel that has passed by, all you have to do is measure the size of the waves the vessel has left in its wake. Manifesting Michelangelo
  • If you wish to proceed to the MA,be sure to inform the university of your choice.
  • All best wishes for a nice voyage!
  • To all those people who have offered us their good wishes and practical support we say a very big thank you.
  • Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress every day!
  • One example - out of many - is his discussion of the mezuzah, a small capsule attached to the doorposts of Jewish homes containing a piece of vellum with verses from the Book of Deuteronomy.
  • Wishing death on the senator's grandchildren is a particularly nice touch. Standards and Practices
  • The overall aim of the book is to help with developing activities which meet the needs and wishes of individual older people.
  • Without the adequate provision of childcare, many women who wish to work are unable to do so.
  • He said neither of the stars wished to be seen by their public behaving in an unrestrained manner, which is what happens at events such as weddings.
  • One of the best perks of the buffet is regional produce, including the granadilla, a yellowish-green fruit with sweet, pomegranate-like seeds.
  • At the vertex is a medical student named Karlanner (played by Stephen Barker Turner), a kind of emblematic conflicted "good German" - leftishly inclined, living with the Jewish girlfriend who rescued him from alcoholism. A Lost Voice Surfaces From A Sinister Interlude
  • I wish to express my thanks to you for instructing my child.
  • On the page and on the screen, "Kick-Ass" riffs on the wish-fulfillment afforded by tales of derring-do and the ill-advisedness of taking on the task in real life. PaloAltoOnline.com
  • I wish people would just be themselves instead of trying to seem important.
  • The ban will likely include large Christian crosses, Jewish yarmulkes, Muslim hijabs and turbans worn by Sikhs.
  • Why he should choose to express that interval by fifty, rather than by fifty-two, weeks, may be surmised in two ways: first, because the latter phrase would be unpoetical and unmanageable; and, secondly, because he might fancy that the week of the Pagan Theseus would be more appropriately represented by a lunar quarter than by a Jewish hebdomad. Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • The candidates were delighted that the public came to cheer them on and present leis of flowers to wish them luck.
  • Those wishing to breed the baraband parakeet in captivity should house pairs separately in long, spacious aviaries so they don't become overly fat.
  • Illuminati may have learnt something of "venefic magic" and the use of certain natural substances from Jewish Cabalists; at the same time Jews appear to have been only in rare cases admitted to the Order. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements
  • I was offered to stay for as long as I wished, as I wanted to see how agrotourism works on the island, however I could not accept her offer this time. TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • Policy discontinuity frustrated industrialists and investors who wished to engage in forward planning: they could not anticipate stability in government programs.
  • I applaud her courage, and wish her well. The Sun
  • Jewish law forbids the use of the name of the holy rabbi for profit.
  • The unruly bunch pushed into the White House, clods standing on the silk-upholstered furniture in muddy boots to get a glimpse of the new president (who was trying not to be crushed by his well-wishers). Inauguration Party Like It's 1829
  • One of the reasons his novel had been such a hit was because he had appeared at several readings during Jewish Book Month.
  • But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking.
  • On the baize, the balls roll on, but the former stars who now commentate cannot resist blathering about the Jester from Leicester or the Wizard of Wishaw. In praise of ... 'Whispering' Ted Lowe | Editorial
  • ‘I wish I could be like you,’ she croaked, her eyes half-closed with unshed tears.
  • When at Mr. Gedge's I wished much to apprize you of the public opinion as to our Boy Giles, [6] but I dare not then, I shall you may be sure Sir, after such a letter as this, be anxious for your opinion, and I will not damp my spirits with the idea of your being offended. Letter 63
  • Materialization of both wish and phantasy is monstrous to Victor, because his egoic coherence depends on denying the death-drive that he sublimes as life — especially the life of science, invention, and creativity. Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
  • Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress every day!
  • The pioneering Jewish lesbian feminist Charlotte Wolff was a physician by training, but later became a chirologist, psychotherapist, and sexologist, well known in both England and Germany. Charlotte Wolff.
  • Madonna is there with 2,000 other students of kabala, the tradition of Jewish mysticism. CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2004
  • This kind of undisciplined thought, or rather feeling, that mistakes a wish for a fact and leads to foolish policy decisions corrodes the soul of modern man.
  • Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress every day!
  • I wish my parents would stop laying a guilt trip on me for not going to college.
  • Send this special birthday wish just to let you know that you'll always be remembered for the thoughtfulness you show.
  • We in Jaffa used to hear news about Palestinian villages falling into Jewish hands as well as massacres committed by the Jews. Global Voices in English » Palestine: Remembering Shafiq Al Hout
  • It says "Happy Brithday", as in brith milah, ברית מילה, Jewish circumcision. Let Me Count the Ways
  • In this connection an external auditor will wish to consider what reliance should be placed on an internal audit.
  • We do not wish to profit from a film that has demonstrably caused great distress. Times, Sunday Times
  • As we enter the house with the mezuzah on one side and the Chanukah menorah on the other, there is no mistaking the Jewish focus of the home.
  • But for all the send-ups, the strong mother figure remains a key figure in ensuring Jewish continuity.
  • There's a night safe outside the bank, so you can deposit money whenever you wish.
  • She was one of the founders of the havurah Am ha-Yam, on Cape Cod, serving on its board of directors and in various other offices, and often teaches at Elat Chayyim, the Jewish renewal retreat in New York. Marge Piercy.
  • Even given this broad re-engagement with Jewish culture and history, the nostalgia for and interest in the shmatte business over the past decade has been overwhelming. Shmatte Chic | Jewschool
  • It is a brilliant idea that gives people reassurance and peace of mind, knowing that their wishes will be found and acted on. Times, Sunday Times
  • I don't wish to influence others, but it jars upon me to have my name ostentatiously paraded in the public prints. Luke Walton
  • The Jewish feast of Passover began last night.
  • Indeed, this is where the center of Jewish rabbinic authority came to rest after the Byzantine Empire shut down the Sanhedrin in 363 CE.
  • He could not however bridle his tongue -- he pronounced the word rascal with great emphasis; said he deserved to be hanged more than a highwayman, and wished he had the scourging him. Joseph Andrews, Volume 2
  • There's also a sauna (it was built in the '80s, remember), an area for a hot tub and supposedly a very swish tennis court on the roof.
  • Planning and practical action replace wishful thinking and it gets results at work and home. The Sun
  • In the meantime, carry on with your sulk if you wish.
  • Thousands of cuneiform tablets and ancient Christian, Muslim and Jewish manuscripts are gone.
  • Conservative high command is the victim of wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
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  • The county council has taken all our views on board and promised it will do its best to accommodate the wishes of the village within reason.

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