In Brazil,many people flock to Copacabana beach to ask the Afro-Brazilian goddess of the sea, Iemanja,a wish in exchange for a gift.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

Fair-goers can take part in ritual cleanings and make a wish for the New Year.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

One year after the war, a lasting solution remains only a wish.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

The director says "Living in Emergency" is a story about how things are, not how you wish things were.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

It was a tradition to open the White House on that day so the president could wish visitors a happy new year.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

And if you go away, someone may wish you bon voyage or have a good trip.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

what Matt would have done?" "How do you know "Now you're setting up a date with a vampire! What do you have, a death wish?"

VOA: special.2010.01.20

I wish schools should change their start time to eight-thirty or nine a.m.

VOA: special.2010.10.14

"No,I don't have a death wish. I just happen to think that judging an entire group of people based on the actions of a few individuals within that group is morally wrong."

VOA: special.2010.01.20

I wish we had a sail, he said, to give you two boys a chance to rest. So they used his coat and one of the oars to make a sail and the boat moved much more quickly.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

But dying is a different way, A kind behind the door -- Some historians wish that Emily Dickinson's poems had reached the best American writers of her day: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau or Walt Whitman.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Schenouda says Egyptians wish the South Africans well, and share a sense of pride over the tournament with other Africans.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

"It is good.I am enjoying it. I wish I was out there, but they seem to be doing a good job.

VOA: standard.2010.06.13

He says a recent census in Mali found an estimated 8,000 out of 12,000 Mauritanian refugees may wish to return home.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24