He wanted to make sure parents knew they should have control over their children and expect cooperation from them.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

He wanted to make English easier to understand by listeners of VOA broadcasts whose native language was not English.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

A doctor in Illinois remembers that before his internship, he wanted to work in crisis medicine in the emergency room.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Jackson could not trust them. And he wanted to get them out of the cabinet, but without a political fight.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

He wanted to see Confederate soldiers go back to their homes to become peaceful citizens of a united country.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

He also tried hypnosis. He wanted to see if putting patients into a sleep-like condition would help ease troubled minds.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

Senator Nelson did not want the campaign to be about the changes and actions he wanted for the environment.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

He had heard Lincoln say that he wanted to make it easy for the southern states to return to the Union.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

He wanted to make an instrument that could play a note longer than notes played on a traditional acoustic guitar.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

He wanted to express his feelings for the form of the skyscraper while deepening his understanding of architecture, engineering and construction.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

he wrote a letter to Rand. He wrote that he wanted to discuss the relationship between psychology and Rand's ideas.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

But when the others finally asked his opinion, he admitted that he wanted to continue taking care of the baby himself.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

Jefferson had a wish. He wanted to discover a waterway that crossed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

He wanted to recognize the people who have created what he called "the most popular music of our time."

VOA: special.2009.10.19