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million people who wanted and were available for work hadn't looked within the last four weeks and were no longer even classified as unemployed.

The man who said in his youth that he wanted to "put a ding in the universe" did just that

they wanted to better protect their kids

Travel: The places you always wanted to visit: by the seaside, in the country, in the hills.

My roommate, Janet Holmes, wanted me to call you.

She joined the Peace Corps after she graduated from the college because she wanted to do something to help other people.

She wanted to find out more about it

She wanted to renew her contact with the Peace Corps.

They wanted to prove they were as capable as boys.

I've heard that at a factory in the area two pregnant women who were working with paint requested a transfer to a safer department, because they wanted to prevent damage to their unborn babies.

They wanted to work shorter hours

For comparison, let's say you wanted to "jam" a conversation between two people—all you'd need to do is yell in the listener's ear.

He wanted to "set the standard for beauty in classical and mode cooling, and prove to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world", as he wrote in his papers.

In those years, just after World War I, the military wanted to build an American highway system for national defense.

More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areas.

My dancing life began not because I wanted to do it, but because my mother was sick and tired of seeing me running around after school doing nothing.

We wanted to give people an opportunity to actually see the calories before they purchase the food and make a decision, an informed decision that if they want to make a healthier choice, if they want to eat fewer calories, they can.

We wanted to know if the length of time food is in contact with a contaminated surface affected the rate of transfer of bacteria to the food.

He wanted to do one thing at a time," Meg says, explaining her son's delay.

When Boston College, a private research university, wanted a better feel for its potential donors, it asked the psychologist Robert Kenny to investigate the mindset of the super-rich

In some cases the quality requirements are so exacting that even if you wanted to have a human do the job, you couldn't.

Most Waldorf students wanted the full four-year experience—academically, socially, and athletically.

They wanted to improve their own status within the current education system.

Before the election, Erin White has been haunted by the question of whether she could go as far as she wanted in life.

she could go as far as she wanted in life

Rod said he wanted to get involved in student government this year.

For example, in 1909 anyone who wanted to make a single copy of a literary work for personal use had to do so by hand

They are wanted for one of the big computer companies.

Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.

Dehl and her fellow researchers wanted to find out if that was true, so they embarked on a series of nine experiments in the lab and in the field testing people's enjoyment in the presence or absence of a camera.

Further complicating my college search was a flourishing track career—I wanted to keep running but my times weren't quite fast enough to secure a scholarship.

I asked the lawyer again how she wanted to appear at her first trial.

I asked what impression she wanted to make on the jury.

I wanted to go to college but I didn't really know the process.

I wanted to know why so I began self-monitoring to try to understand my behavior.

If they wanted to spell something, they used code words for letters of the Alphabet.

Joseph wanted to put this theory to the test.

One day, I was invited to an important event, and I wanted to wear something special for it.

Or maybe a wealthy local wanted to show off his worldly sophistication.

Perhaps a Roman official wanted Pompeii-like interior to remind him of home.

Rather than merely asking about something they wanted to try, they tended to include both cause and effect in their question.

That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.

That's what I wanted to ask you about.

The children wanted autonomy about this issue and were worried about their parents sharing information about them.

The one in the House bill would have to negotiate rates with providers, rather than using Medicare rates, as many reformers wanted.

The Wallaces also had a clear sense of the kind of workplace they wanted.

There is another explanation that Twenge and her colleagues wanted to address: the impact of the great recession of 2007-2009, which hit a great number of American families and might be affecting adolescents.

They all wanted to turn around and go home! You know, back to teabags and fish and chips.

They cited a study presented earlier this year of 249 pairs of parents and their children in which twice as many children as parents wanted rules on what parents could share.

To be fair, if Rodriguez had wanted feedback from some more technophobic seniors, he might have ended up in the wrong Brookdale community.

Twenge and her colleagues wanted to understand why this change in average well-being occurred.

A latest study on the college job market showed that employers wanted to hire 22% fewer graduates this year than last.

As the months went by, I began to realize that I actually wanted to walk misty.

Athens reached the point when the freedom she really wanted was freedom from responsibility.

During my first quarter at university of California, riverside ucr, I thought that I wanted to study political science with its focus on international affairs, so that's what I applied for.

From day two everyone wanted to walk the cute puppy that first day, neither thought to walk the dog.

From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled across the continent.

He had wrinkles next to his eyes when he smiled, yet his smile was still as heartwarming as before, the smile of a father who just wanted a good life for his family.

He thought of his bird with no seeds and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was determined that he would not tell a lie.

He wanted to take the task home.

I always wanted to know what my mom was reading.

I wanted to be like my mom and know all of the things she knew.

I wanted to go to college after high school, but I couldn't.

I'm sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept assistance from.

I've always wanted to thank you.

I've never exchanged words with those moms beyond small tall, but they wanted to help.

Jane's grandmother had wanted to write a children's book for many years, but one thing or another always got in the way.

Last summer, she wanted to join out local swim team.

Looking back, I feel blessed someone had wanted to help a stranger.

My progress in reading raised my curiosity, and I wanted to know everything.

People had been writing novels for a century—most experts date the first novel to Robinson Crusoe in 1719—but nobody wanted to do it professionally.

She and her research team wanted to know the Internet is changing memory.

She created a website page matching survivors in need with donors who wanted to help.

She wanted david to help her.

She wanted mom to read the news to her.

She wanted to be polite to her mother.

She wanted to make her father a professional.

She wanted to please her dying old father.

So imagine my delight when he emailed me saying he wanted to come to visit me.

That's when a fantastic life-changing idea popped into head: if I could get more money, I could buy more books l liked, buy anything l wanted.

The Athenians never thought that a man was free if he could do what he wanted.

The thing that I wanted to tell you today is this education is important.

The town elders wanted to learn about the world.

They wanted to live away from their parents.

They wanted to try their luck elsewhere.

Tube bosses claim that capacity was limited because so few people wanted to walk up—meaning only one side was used at all times.

What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them; and with this as the primary object, ideas of freedom and self-reliance and responsibility were neglected to the point of disappearing.

When Alice was sixteen, I was the one who wanted to run away from home.

When I was eighteen, I decided that I really preferred contemporary dance and that I wanted to do it professionally.

When she wanted to put the ring back on later, it was gone.

When the studio didn't want me for the film -- it wanted somebody as well known as paul -- he stood up for me.

Yet knowing we can have more can also create a problem, because when we go to change the way we do things, up come the old patterns and pitfalls that stopped us from seeking what we wanted in the first place.

But if Congress wanted to prevent states from using their own resources to check immigration status, it could.

Ellen Marram quit as chief of Tropicana a decade ago, saying she wanted to be a CEO.

McGee says leaving without a position lined up gave him time to reflect on what kind of company he wanted to run.

The Nobels were, of course, themselves set up by a very rich individual who had decided what he wanted to do with his own money.

The Olympic bidders, by contrast, wanted to get more people doing sports and to produce more elite athletes.

The researchers wanted to know if the optimism and inclination for risk-taking that comes with happiness would change the way companies invested.

The survey they asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to workless than full time or because they had no choice.

You are now not wanted; you are now excluded from the work environment that offers purpose and structure in your life.

You wanted to say something—the first word—but it just won't come out, it feels like it is stuck somewhere.