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desired

greatly desired (= craved) wanted intensely the child could no longer resist taking one of the craved cookies it produced the desired effect

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Simple sentences

Evening dress is desired.
Your behavior leaves much to be desired.
Your English composition leaves nothing to be desired.
It leaves nothing much to be desired.
This result leaves much to be desired.
Your English leaves much to be desired.
The government's new economic plan leaves much to be desired.
His performance left nothing to be desired.
His pictures leave nothing to be desired.
His work leaves nothing to be desired.
Tom's English leaves much to be desired.
I had not been in my study five minutes when the maid entered to say that a person desired to see me.
Ann has achieved her desired goal.
His plan leaves much to be desired.
We all want to be desired.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god, but will exalt himself above them all.
Your French leaves a lot to be desired.
There is a strong correlation in the United States between the adoption of a policy and the degree to which it is desired by elites, but a very weak correlation as far as the wishes of ordinary voters are concerned.
Your behavior is not conducive to the desired environment.

Movie subtitles

And he is, objectively... the best I've ever had... although his personal hygiene leaves a lot to be desired.
I know you have never desired the adulation of heroes.
And the food don't leave nothing to be desired.
This afternoon, for example, at Lidia's it was obvious that your conduct and deportment were not altogether what could be desired.
The late king, your father, desired this alliance with France.
Pierrot is dead and the woman you desired.
But, you see, I have never desired your good opinion.
Did anyone ever tell you that your manners left much to be desired?
I desired her, and I still do on certain nights, when I toss and turn.
You could be the Lord's housekeeper if you so desired.
Ditte's son comes to the world without being desired.
We should have else desired your good advice, in this day's council, but we'll take to-morrow.
Especially when the battle is followed by possession of the desired object.
In fact, I was somewhat flattered that you desired me.
But what she desired.
Unfortunately we can't give you the desired apartment with five rooms. Why not?
Mr. Brandon, your wife's conduct leaves nothing to be desired.
Withdraw the air because the nitrogen and oxygen in air. interferes with the desired light bands of the spectrum.
Well, what I can't understand is why did you pretend to be a county detective. unless the gas pills didn't have the desired effect?
There is another who desired the death of her ladyship.
That leaves nothing to be desired.
You regret nothing, you obtained what you desired.
I didn't say they weren't desired. I only said there's a commandment against it.
There are some girls who might even say.. thatourentirecourtship left something to be desired.
Unfortunately we can't give you the desired apartment with five rooms.
That's what I went into the bank for, to get rich and to buy you things someday. Anything your heart desired.
There was a time when I would have resented Such impertinence, particularly from a doctor Whose conduct leaves so much to be desired.
His knowledge of people left a great deal to be desired. Cigarette?
And they all say that it was with the woman they desired the most that the same thing happened to them that happened to me.
One of those cavalry officers. tells how he and the woman he so desired. spent three nights.
Not that I resented it, not a bit in the world. In fact, I was somewhat flattered that you desired me.
Everything else that you've desired.
I was young, women desired me, and from time to time I was able made one of them very happy.
However. the manner in which the House of lyi handled the matter. surely left a great deal to be desired.
Yours leaves a lot to be desired.
It was the thing I desired most, it's mine.

News and current affairs

Some European academics tried to argue that there was no need for US-like fiscal transfers, because any desired degree of risk sharing can, in theory, be achieved through financial markets.
Vast administrative resources are being used to secure the desired result.
Nothing is gained - and much is lost - when a desired policy outcome is put first.
Genetic engineering can be dated from man's recognition that animals and crop plants can be selected and bred to enhance desired characteristics.
Early biologists and agriculturists carried out selection for desired traits, generating poorly understood changes in the organisms' genetic material.
Despite these laws and institutional reforms our anti-corruption drives have, up to now, produced none of the desired results.
Sometimes they never see the desired results.
Aid cutoffs regularly fail to produce desired political results for at least two reasons.
The economy needs to be steered in the desired direction without triggering instability, making correct sequencing and coordination of policy measures essential.
It is highly likely that desired health expenditures will be enormous for some things and trivial for others.
Either the desired service is performed from abroad - telemarketing, for example - or the work is sent abroad for processing and later imported to the home country (in Europe, more and more industrial work is being outsourced from West to East).
There are no less than five reasons not to assume the deal will enter into force or have the desired impact.
For as long as the issue remained unsettled, the Iranian delegation to the talks could not agree on the desired outcome.
Reforms may or may not trickle down; even when they do, they will rarely constitute the most effective way of targeting the desired ends (whether those ends are legal reform, observance of human rights, or reduced corruption).
However, aid was not directly linked to performance and results, and it is much more difficult to know whether it had the desired impact overall.
And yet Europe's current proposals on migration leave much to be desired. The continent needs to recall its past more sensitively, and be more generous to the desperate people crossing the Mediterranean.
It is merely a first step toward a desired end - and entirely meaningless unless the second, third, and all subsequent necessary steps are taken.
Perhaps this two-track approach was inevitable, though it would be good to know the desired end-point.
We analyzed trade-offs between competing objectives (say, equity versus efficiency), and prescribed policies to meet desired economic outcomes, including redistribution.
Indeed, the most frequently floated proposals leave much to be desired.
And yet Europe's current proposals on migration leave much to be desired.
Even assuming that agreement can be found within the eurozone on how to allocate the desired gains and losses in competitiveness across countries, member countries are not centrally planned economies.
It is highly likely that desired health expenditures will be enormous for some things and trivial for others. This calls for insurance.

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