Japan's desire to use East Asia to gain natural resources and sell manufactured products was in direct conflict with American plans for Asia.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

He owned the New York Yankees. His desire to win at all costs produced not only the most powerful team in Major League Baseball.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The full name of the Smithsonian's exhibit is "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture."

VOA: special.2010.12.15

With the gold they found in the mountains came a desire for further improvement.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

That desire to live forever in a record book may not seem very surprising.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

We quickly learned that we had overestimated everything: the ability of our vehicle, the distance we could travel in a day, the amount of money we needed and our desire to be away from home.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Mr.Obama won the presidency in 2008 largely because of the public's desire for change and concerns about the domestic economy.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

By the time they arrive in Tecun Uman, travelers are firm in their desire to move ahead.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Secretary Gates indicated the pace of the transition could roughly match President Karzai's stated desire for his forces to be operating on their own in five years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

In an interview with the Associated Press prior to his departure, the president spoke of his desire to break free of the last vestiges of the Cold War.

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

The film was a British production, which used Bollywood talent and was shot in the slums of Mumbai fueled the desire among Bollywood production houses to make a similar hit.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

(Speaking) Mr.Gbagbo says that thanks to the support of the international community, and in particular thanks to the work and desire for peace of his fellow Ivorians, the electoral process has entered an irreversible phase.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

There are all sorts of security problems. And then there are problems that we in the West would perhaps regard as a little less legitimate, like the simple desire of authoritarian governments to keep tabs on what their people are thinking and doing.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

"There is still a lot of firsts to do and hopefully we will run out of those firsts pretty quickly because it is certainly my desire that one of the legacies that I would certainly like to leave behind is bringing in more African-American astronauts."

VOA: standard.2010.02.02