Even before the 1970s became fashionable again, I longed for shag-pile carpets, big collars, disco music and dolly birds. |
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This Dutch peasant girl longed to compete in a skating race, but her family could barely afford food and she only had wooden skates. |
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She watched the nimble sailors go about their business, singing shanties and being useful and she longed to join them. |
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Secretly Henrietta longed for a cat, a sweet gray tabby with little paws and doleful eyes who she could share her life long secrets with. |
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His skin was almost translucent, and for a moment I longed to reach up and touch it, but I quickly pushed the impulse aside. |
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He longed to know what nobility was exactly, so he could be sure that he had it. |
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Standing in front of him, he longed to slowly carve Jaegar to pieces and burn those pieces to bits. |
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How often I have longed to hear the hermit thrush, wood thrush and veery blend their ethereal voices together again! |
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This fear is what keeps me from loving and receiving the love my heart has longed for since birth. |
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Now awake and in charge of the day, he longed to be off, striding across the rich brown soil, out into the world, to explore. |
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He longed for a strong dictator and the security of the old religion, without the injustices of the old order. |
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But, for the modern Episcopalian, the country parson is probably an ideal figure, remote and more longed for than experienced. |
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Her husband believes she is David's biggest fan and she has longed to meet him since she was a schoolgirl. |
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Oh how I longed for a platform indicator that actually told you when the next train was due, not just where it was going. |
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Seated on her bench beneath the wide, cloudless bay, she would never admit that she longed for the messy logistics of a man. |
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The contentment and happiness of love is always to be longed for or wistfully remembered. |
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He ached for her and longed to show her that he loved her and that he wouldn't leave her. |
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Her blue jeans were beginning to grow damp and she longed for the feel of dry clothes and a warm blanket. |
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I longed for mum to get this box of chocolates, but not because I had a palate advanced enough to enjoy bitter, dark langue-du-chat chocolates. |
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That brought some unscripted applause, a sense of relief that at last he had said what so many had longed to hear. |
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I'd finally achieved the acceptance I longed for-but it was tinged with the bitterness of how much of myself I'd given up in the process. |
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Ever longed for that in-between meals treat, but don't want to ruin a healthy appetite for punk rock? |
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As the tiny girl's condition worsened, the Proctors longed for a donor to help give their daughter a fresh chance. |
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I longed to return to that innocent state of bumbling incompetence when a duck-dive was the pinnacle of achievement. |
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He played football but longed to be a kick-boxer, a dream that perished on the rock of short and stumpy legs. |
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But her determination has won through and while Grace will sadly never meet her father, Mrs Scott has the baby she longed for. |
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I longed to stroke her shoulder-length reddish-tinted hair and whisper softly into her ear. |
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How she longed to be in the warm company of the abbess and the sisters again. |
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I longed to leap out of my hospital bed and meet someone exactly like that, a person devoted exclusively to self-advancement. |
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As soon as I stepped outside, I longed for the warmth of the convenience store again. |
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Heavy irony underlines her declaration that she had always wanted to be in the movies and longed to be discovered, like Marilyn Monroe. |
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But its producers are banking on the Chardonnay becoming the miracle longed for by the calorie-counting female wine-bar generation. |
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We kept on coming back on safaris, but although we longed to move here we knew it was just a distant dream. |
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I longed to get a steady rhythm going and muttered impatiently that we had a mountain to climb. |
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Byron always longed for adventure, but this idea just seemed foolish to him. |
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Maria longed for a larger, less isolated life that included people and domesticated animals, fat curly terriers or blue-eyed huskies. |
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It amazes me and I longed to learn to tap dance just so I could tap dance all around my house and show up my friends. |
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I longed the horse for a while and Barbara began to ride him a few weeks later. |
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She laughs and says she has longed for the ring for a great time and wished to take it. |
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Since then, I've longed to replicate the delicious, savory, and often quite filling meals that we ate together. |
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They do not understand how much I long for it, how I have longed for it ever since I was a girl. |
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He closed his eyes tightly and longed for death, for surely he would be dead sooner or later. |
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I longed to tell her that dreams can lose their buoyancy, like a gas balloon weighted with too much ballast, sandbagged by too many years. |
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His report was never going to be the searing, damning indictment some had longed for. |
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I longed for my parents to hire a horse-drawn cab instead of a taxi but that did not happen. |
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I longed for a digital system that would hold the information from the letters and leave paper and dust behind. |
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Charlie often longed to have the same composure as Cherri, to be as self-possessed as she made herself out to be. |
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Grant and Malinda could hardly bear their separation, and Grant longed to see his five children, one of whom was born during the war. |
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It was not much more than a shack but soon they were joined by local women who had longed for the day when a convent would be opened. |
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Rupert and Robin both hated boarding school and they longed to live at home. |
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According to what few accounts we have of him he thought the word of his daughter and longed to see her again. |
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She grinned as I inconspicuously grimaced and longed to duck beneath the covers. |
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The cherries were staining her lips an enticing crimson colour, and Cary longed to lean across the table to kiss the juice away. |
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A thousand times over she had longed to trade these countless beds for her secure pallet. |
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I've always longed for a sweet and affectionate, yet unbelievably cool, nickname. |
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How he longed for the summer when they would both jet off to Italy for their special times together. |
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The pain of life's beauty and fleetingness was something Eliot longed to put on hold. |
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There have been moments, many of them, when I have longed to be re-united with it. |
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She longed to see a powerful revival among the neglected and helpless widows of India. |
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She had longed so eagerly to charm, to be desired, to be wildly attractive and sought after. |
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Years of being scared of the Subway and being mugged at gunpoint meant that somewhere I longed to visit always seemed out of reach. |
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Johnny, wishing to relieve the ache in his feet, longed for the beautiful palfrey that had once been his to ride whenever he wished. |
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They suffered from homesickness and longed to return to their native country. |
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I longed to tell them the game had most likely been made to entertain babies, but I resisted. |
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I longed to return to the crime narrative to find out what happens next. |
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I longed for Pamela and Clarissa to spring up and dash off protesting letters. |
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I longed for the psychological security of my Marks and Sparks' twinset. |
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He longed to be a singer, but his first teacher discouraged him. |
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And, just like every single one of the millions of Brazilian people unfortunate enough to be from a favela, Melo had longed to get out and help. |
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Last time I fell in a shower-room I bled like a tumbril dandy and the hotel longed to be rid of me. |
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Those that by their wish, their dream, have one day longed for an otherness without which the world would be inhabitable! |
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Jesus called those who hungered for righteousness, and longed for spiritual understanding. |
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I longed for its lissome grace to be blown by the wind into my body. |
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At the age of 17 he was articled to a firm of solicitors, but he longed to become notable in a more sensational manner. |
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They have longed for it through the generations, and have persistently prayed to obtain it. |
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Like many children of his age, he longed for the freedom and excitement of owning his own go-kart. |
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His successor wrote that the Church was the mouthpiece of humanity in the pure state, a humanity that longed for peace and needed peace. |
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Our friend longed for his family and the process began more than two years ago to re-unite them. |
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They missed dancing and many longed for opportunities to dance as few were provided. |
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And finally, after all the works are over, we will be in the arms of our ever longed for Lord, and enjoy the glory of Heaven. |
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The moment of death was not a moment of fear, but it was the moment of meeting with the Lord they had longed for. |
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This visit to North Korea, so much longed for and at last realised, has left me with many questions. |
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He simply asks to be longed for and waits patiently to establish His dwelling in us because God lives wherever He is allowed to enter. |
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Harry has longed for his parents ever since they were killed while protecting him from the evil Valdemort. |
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The Iraqi people, having finally cast off the yoke of dictatorship, longed to build together a sovereign country that was secure and stable. |
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I still longed to be up there, to play that doctor, to wear that neckerchief and those fawn slacks. |
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These sad events have brought us closer to achieving the proximity to our citizens for which we have often longed. |
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I even longed for the real Australian rubbish in other families' yards, like the stack of 'dead marines' waiting for the bottle-oh on the back porch. |
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Conservatives longed for the return of a healthy system of independent party politics, freed from the buccaneering methods of an autocratic prime minister and his retainers. |
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A ghost story set in medieval times with screaming heroines and handsome knights, it was aiming at the market that longed for a return to more rural, gentler times. |
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And although he enjoyed teaching, he longed to be doing original scientific research, but it was wartime. |
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I grew up at the Opera House in Stockholm where I studied music and ballet and longed to become a director of opera. |
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And sometimes when he sat alone in his dark house, listening to the wind shaking the windowpanes, he longed to be rid of the intense solitude that engulfed him. |
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I longed for you, I worshipped you at your feet, come to me my rock star. |
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People who longed for a more thorough introduction of Reformation principles during the reigns from Henry VIII to James I heavily relied on the Old Testament. |
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The three strangers were really three angels sent by God to allow Abraham to perform the kindness he longed to do, in spite of his pain and incapacitation. |
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News of an opening with Havana has enraged the old guard of Miami that has longed to see the Castro family brought down. |
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Harley, 14, longed for the comfort of his imprisoned mother and struggled to control his anger and to stay out of jail himself. |
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For years he had longed for his friendship with this woman to become something more, and having recently gathered up the nerve to court her, his wishes had been granted. |
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In the former Bill Hurt longed to hump you and in the latter a large dog did just that in your role as an animal trainer. |
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He started his working life as a bookbinder, though he longed to be part of the world of science, which he learned about with all the vigour of an autodidact. |
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If you've longed for a particular kind of snowball bush you've admired from a distance but can't find it at a store or in a catalog, ask permission to take a stem cutting. |
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She longed for the free time that she'd once thought so indifferently of. |
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As he held his mother to him, he longed to tell her all, but he kept his counsel. |
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In the two hundred and fifty-six years since, trapped in my moldering Body by the terrifying circumstances of my departure from this Life, my Soul has longed for freedom. |
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But deep inside he knew the truth was he longed for one last great adventure. |
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The men were so worn out that they longed for death to end their dreadful suffering. |
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He longed for reconciliation with his estranged father, but too many painful memories kept him from making contact again. |
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Walpole sought critical as well as financial success, and longed to write works that equalled those of Trollope, Thomas Hardy and Henry James. |
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Almost he longed to be a scrupleless Oriental and carry her off across his saddle bow. |
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How I longed to have him wear a great big turban, and shalwars, and an ankle bracelet. |
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A country girl at heart, Alanna Main longed to escape the city for a more tranquil life. |
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But she longed for home and another New York agency was courting her. |
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The baby would have been Darrell Waters's first child and it would also have been the son for which both of them longed. |
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The premier thus fulfilled the wish of Quebecers, who longed to be officially represented by the fleur de lys since the beginning of the 20th century. |
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In jazzier compositions you longed for an improviser's spontaneity and development rather than a decorousness better suited to a fern-throttled piano bar. |
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Ward and Marshman proved to be the sort of yokefellows that the forty-year-old Carey had longed for since he arrived in Bengal. |
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I longed for achievements, to be influential — that, in particular. |
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I longed to be out and away, out from this place of strange odours, from this place where the top of my head had been cut off like the top of a hardboiled egg. |
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If the dependent requirements for this component are no longed covered by plant stock, you can transfer the difference in dependent requirements to a follow-up material. |
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Then came the next family decision: his new wife longed to bear a child. |
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I have longed to have a regular meditative prayer close to where I live. |
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Born, as we are, out of a revolution by those who longed to be free, we welcome the fact that history is on the move in the Middle East and North Africa, and that young people are leading the way. |
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Small wonder she believed, first, that formal education was stultifying, and second that computers, especially Macs, could shake everything up in the way she longed to see. Even sport pricked her defiance. |
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The baroque palace, containing splendid faux-marble stuccoed rooms, is also known as the Royal Site of La Granja de San Ildefonso and was built during the reign of Philip V, who longed for his childhood days in Versailles. |
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May assured Sheila that there was plenty of hot water because the immersion heater had been on all evening, but although Sheila rather longed for a bath, she didn't want to keep everybody waiting for the bathroom. |
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Age of Conan's day of release was wishfully longed for by many fans. |
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On February 13th, 1848, Marianna fulfilled the sacrifice her heart longed for. She went back to the boarding-school at Vimercate, as an aspirant, feeling the call towards a religious fife. |
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When the Church speaks of hope she surely does not intend to deny the truth and power of hope nor overlook those hopes longed for by the whole of humanity, at times strongly expressed, at other times hidden or even unknown. |
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A serene joy came over us when, during the course of the prayer, we heard abundant rain beginning to fall: the first rain, so longed for after several months of drought. |
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There can be no military solution to the tragedy of Burundi: negotiation, and the honouring of existing commitments, are the only possible way to restore the peace so longed for by the people. |
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The vision which many Torres Strait Islanders have longed for has been for an autonomous Torres Strait Region One reason that we want to have greater autonomy is because we want to be empowered to look after our own affairs. |
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The citizens in the East longed for our political system in the West, even though weaknesses in our system were subject to hefty criticism in some of our own programming. |
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Many peoples have longed for freedom and democracy. |
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In their context of national division the churches have turned for inspiration to the prophet Ezekiel, who also lived in a tragically divided nation and longed for the unity of his people. |
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Tio Pepe has longed pushed its sherry as the perfect palate cleanser. |
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While the peoples of the region longed for peace, security and democracy and fought to throw off corrupt totalitarian regimes, they did not wish to surrender to the occupier or sacrifice their cultural identity. |
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They have longed to wallow in that filth, and so they have. |
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Each of his self-portraits, with steadily silvering hair and whitening skin, showed him progressing as inevitably as his numbers into the infinity he longed for. |
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Europeans who had suspected that America's new economy was largely a bubble had longed for the day when they could gloat over America's misfortunes. |
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When Tannie McGregor left a book club in Houston, Texas, she longed for a new reading family. |
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They longed for the gorgeous, licentious place their memories turned into paradise. The fact is that in the 18th century and today, Venice would win the title of bronchitis capital of the world if such a contest existed. |
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If you have longed to record your own CDs with the simplicity of the obsolete cassette recorder, the PSD300 is the device for you. |
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Giese's entrepreneurial streak began after a frustrating stint as a stockbroker where he longed for greater sway over the companies he was working with. |
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The holy priest admitted to her that he ardently longed to spend the rest of his days in solitude, which attracted him strongly so as not to have to think of anything except God and himself. |
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Mrs. Banda now has the credit line she longed for. |
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In a pub, a mob of viewers is moved from titillated vengefulness to pity and then to self-recrimination, appalled by the experience of witnessing what they'd longed to see. |
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Besides, sometimes, deep inside, she longed to be twelve again. |
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Since graduating from Ole Miss several years ago, I have longed for the cheese-stuffed manicotti and marinara sauce of Old Venice Pizza on the Square in Oxford. |
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The old pastor found his pastorage wearying, and longed to retire. |
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Marx longed to return to his economic studies, as he had left these studies in 1844 and had been preoccupied with other projects over the last thirteen years. |
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I longed to be part of the over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder club, if only I had boulders to hold! Or small stones. Even pebbles would have been acceptable. |
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As I grew up I longed for a record player of my own but knew it was out of the question though I did have a transistor radio bought me on my thirteenth birthday. |
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While not everyone reading this will identify with my dream-like loopiness, many of you have probably longed for a better sleep, often for that reason. |
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The old pastor found his pastorate wearying, and longed to retire. |
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At a new school where nobody knows she's had gender reassignment surgery, she hopes to finally live the normal life she's longed for, happy in her own skin. |
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This at last brought me to the cooley or ravine that I so longed to reach. |
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