Flowers, salmon and milk powder, all hankered after by Asian consumers, have seen some of the strongest growth.
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The troops in India may have preferred darker, sweeter porter, but the wealthier traders hankered after more refinement.
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He again made reference to the margin of his Electoral College victory and hankered after the opportunity to run against Clinton again.
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He gave the distinct impression he wants to get Kavanaugh on the court without delay, cementing the conservative majority Republicans have hankered after for decades.
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But he always hankered after politics: he inherited the obsession from his grandma, with whom he would listen to the radio news every hour as a child, leaving him with an encyclopedic knowledge of 1970s Westminster.
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Mr Nyusi was hoping that all would be settled before national elections next year, though some in Frelimo still hankered after a "Savimbi solution": that Mr Dhlakama would just be killed, as was Angola's rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi, in 2002.
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But to the extent these lives are presented to us as something to be hankered after, as lives we would certainly want if only we could have them, we are presented with an image that asks us to forget what is important to us.
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Both countries after a while were so economically exhausted that they hankered after peace.
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Carlyle was named Lord Rector of Edinburgh University. Three weeks after his inaugural address there, Jane died, and he partly retired from active society. His last years were spent at 24 Cheyne Row (then numbered 5), Chelsea, London SW3 (which is now a National Trust propertyCarlyle's House. , commemorating his life and works) but he hankered after a return to Craigenputtock.
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Nehama Leibowitz contrasted God’s call of Israel’s prophets in and with Balaam’s preliminaries to communion with God in and . Leibowitz noted that Israel’s prophets did not run after prophecy, while Balaam hankered after prophecy, striving through magical means to force such power down from Heaven. Leibowitz marked a change in Balaam’s third address, however, when reports, “the spirit of God came upon him.”Nehama Leibowitz.
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Kennedy comments, "It is a stony heart that cannot respond to the urgings of this work's coda", but during the composition Piatigorsky hankered after a more bravura ending. Walton composed two alternative ones, but the original quiet conclusion was played at the premiere and has remained the standard version.Kennedy, p. 197 In 1974 the composer reconsidered the ending and wondered if Piatigorsky (and Heifetz, who shared the cellist's view) might have been right.
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Brymer was educated at Westoe Secondary School, South Shields, excelling at rugby football."Jack Brymer – Obituary", The Times, 17 September 2003 He hankered after a musical career, but as a profile in The Gramophone put it, "The virtual collapse of the orchestral profession when sound entered the cinema, and musicians were thrown out of work by the hundred turned his thoughts elsewhere."Wimbush, Roger. "Here and There", The Gramophone, May 1968, p.
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James Stourton, Clark's authorised biographer, judges the appointment to be the most rewarding his subject ever held, and notes how, during this period Clark established himself as Britain's most sought-after lecturer, and wrote two of his finest books, Landscape into Art (1947) and Piero della Francesca (1951).Stourton, pp. 224–225 By this time Clark no longer hankered after a career in pure scholarship, but saw his role as sharing his knowledge and experience with the wide public.Rothenstein, p.
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Born in London in 1918, Eric Lambert emigrated to Australia at the age of 2 with his parents – they settled in Manly, Sydney. He left school at the age of 17 and worked in a garage having been denied the grammar school and university education he hankered after. In 1940 he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. He saw action in the Middle East with the 2/2nd Machine Gun Battalion (January 1941 – October 1942) and the 2/15th Battalion (to January 1943).
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Widespread destitution, intensified by the burden on government finances of war reparations and, later, currency collapse, gave rise to continuing political instability across the country during the early 1920s. One symptom was the existence of various right-wing "Freikorps" militias, composed of unemployed former soldiers, many of whom hankered after a return to pre-war conditions. The Kapp Putsch in March 1920 was a revolt against continuing economic austerity and an attempt to topple the republican constitution put in place during 1919. It failed.
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He was MLA from Ahore in the Jalore district twice in 1977 and 1990. Mr. Singh, who had been a Raja under the former Jodhpur State, represented Ahore Assembly constituency in Jalore district of the State twice. Known as a gentleman politician, He was a much respected figure in western Rajasthan. Not a person who hankered after power and position, he devoted more time in the past one decade to conservation of water bodies and building of check dams in Jodhpur, Jalore and Pali districts than in politics.
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Bust of Themistocles It is possible to draw some conclusions about Themistocles's character. Perhaps his most evident trait was his massive ambition; "In his ambition he surpassed all men"; "he hankered after public office rather as a man in delirium might crave a cure". He was proud and vain, and anxious for recognition of his deeds.Plutarch, Themistocles 18 His relationship with power was of a particularly personal nature; while he undoubtedly desired the best for Athens, many of his actions also seem to have been made in self-interest.
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He was nominated one of the commissioners of the high court of justice attended each day of the trial of Charles I, and signed the death-warrant. After the execution he remained an active member of Parliament, involving himself in the sale of church and crown estates. He hankered after the chief ushership of the exchequer, then held by Clement Walker, and, after vainly soliciting the committee of sequestrations to sequester Walker during his incarceration in the Tower of London, persuaded the committee of revenue to confer the office on him "until the parliament declare their pleasure therein", by an order dated 1 February 1650. On the following 21 March, though the order had not been ratified by parliament, he took forcible possession of Walker's official residence.
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