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"hanker" Definitions
  1. to have a strong desire for something

51 Sentences With "hanker"

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You did not have to hanker after it: It fell into your lap.
He wants the whole world to see how many important people hanker to work for him.
We in the West still hanker after new and exotic ways to make our lives better.
They also hanker after some of the benefits overseas teams have access to — sports psychologists, for example.
What makes this work so strong is that it doesn't hanker after some illusion of a golden moment.
For years, Ms. Vosper seemed to hanker for a "heresy trial" in her op-eds, public statements and books.
Traditionalists hanker for the papacy of his predecessor, Benedict XVI, who retired to a life of prayer three years ago.
Some agents hanker to go hard after the Clinton Foundation, their superiors resist, and accusations of bias flow both ways.
Dining | Connecticut If margaritas are what you most hanker for when sitting down to a Mexican meal, Casa Margarita, in Southington, Conn.
But, like the young Mr van Beurden, many poor countries still lack readily available fuel supplies, and hanker for the modernisation energy brings.
They hanker for strong leaders who can embody the will of the people, surpass these encumbrances and provide seductively simple solutions to problems.
Meanwhile, if you hanker for real dairy milk but don't want to trouble cows, another startup, Perfect Day, is working on a solution.
In fact, the number of young people who hanker after the same 10 professions — 47% of boys and 53% of girls — has grown.
If surprisingly few Swedes hanker for punitive taxes on the rich, that is also because many have concluded that they do not work.
But in the end, Ms. Legaretta and Mr. Araiza agreed, Mexicans should not worry about the tumbling peso unless they hanker for expensive imports.
Instead, I'm fascinated by the potential for autonomous, driverless vehicles and the mass adoption of electric cars; I hanker after a Tesla, not a Testarossa.
Still, they no longer hanker for an alternative to Wengen life and have shelved the idea of building a second home in the United States.
There is an anger about being sidelined, and I suppose that does hanker back to a period when Derry mattered, for all the wrong reasons, but it mattered.
This group had good reason to hanker for change: in recent years its economic performance has lagged behind that of American men as a whole by ever-greater amounts.
Deceptively simple scenes — like a stunning, slow-motion shot of Rose posing for her school photograph — insinuate a wealth of information, but the movie doesn't hanker to be understood.
If that's not possible, I go by word of mouth and my own mood — sometimes I just hanker for a book that's deep and dark; other times I want something droll or topical.
This is shaking up a society that has long prized stability, opening cultural divides between those who embrace the new Germany and those who hanker for the familiar; between urban and rural voters; between young and old.
Richard Branson — who turned 69 on Thursday — lives a life many hanker after: as a billionaire who resides on his own privately-owned island and the head of global corporation Virgin, it's not hard to see why.
Mr Nyusi hopes all will be settled before national elections next year, though some in Frelimo still hanker after a "Savimbi solution": that Mr Dhlakama should just be killed, as was Angola's rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi, in 2002.
It builds on an image -- hatched in the Obama era when Iraq and Afghanistan's forever wars made the hyperpower hanker for a break -- of a tired and bankrupt US that would prefer to let others take the front seat.
Efron's smoothly manipulative performance makes a mockery of their devotion, so much so that at times the movie appears less about the psychology of a specific sociopath than a general comment on women who shield such men and even hanker after them.
What the 10-year-old me could never have imagined was that someday I would hanker for my ancestral meals, for eto (mashed plantains and palm oil, topped with a boiled egg), for abom (boiled green plantain with mashed cocoyam leaf), and for ebunuebunu and fufu.
The experience is akin to all those period-instrument performances over the past 40 years of scores by Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart: While I sometimes hanker for the inauthentic post-Petipa poetry and heroism I used to love in other productions — "Beauty" is a ballet I've watched literally hundreds of times over 41 years — I'm already learning to love the wealth of detail here.
He also produced murals for the in 1705 and Saint James' Church. His last known painting was a portrait of someone named Johann Hanker for St. Peter's Church. Much of his work has been lost or destroyed.
The Diaries of A. Christie. London. > It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and > flamboyant women. Poirot had never been able to rid himself of the fatal > fascination that the Countess held for him."The Capture of Cerebus" (1947).
The Memphis Trust Building is a historic building in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.. It was built in 1904 for the Bank of Commerce and Trust. It was designed by Hanker & Cairns. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 25, 1980.
Jones & Furbringer's successor firm "brg3s" displays an image of the building in its history webpage. It was also a work of architects Hanker & Cairns. Sometimes a building is the work of more than one architect, or a later renovation or extension is done by another firm.
Wright planned the house himself but the final design (with Wright's approval) was by Edwardsville, Illinois, architect, C. H. Spilman. The builder was Charles Hanker of Toledo, Illinois, for a $17,965 with the owner furnishing the materials. The total cost, not including furnishings, was approximately $35,000. The house has 18 furnished rooms, including seven bedrooms.
The dance demonstrates how Bolivian gender roles remain quite male- dominated. Throughout most the dance, the women simply sway their hips side to side, whereas the men turn in circles and do more complicated movements. This dance is designed for women to show off their beauty and men to demonstrate their talent. The women always follow the male lead because when they are facing each other, it is up to him to decide if he’d like to flirt with his partner by putting his hanker chief near her neck and shoulders, if he’d like to hold the hanker chief behind her neck holding it with both hands, or if he doesn’t want to flirt with her, he will simply continue waiving his handkerchief near his shoulder and waist.
The B. Lowenstein & Brothers Building is a historic building in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. It was built in 1924 for the Lowenstein Company, a clothing company founded by Benedict Lowenstein, a German immigrant, in 1855. It was designed in the Beaux-Arts architectural style by Hanker & Cairns. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 16, 1983.
Translation . For explanations, continue along It shan't! This we hope, for this we hanker: this we say and this we vow: as long as we fight back, we: It shan't, It shan't, It shan't! The distinction between Dutch and Flemish literature, often perceived politically, is also made on intrinsic grounds by some experts such as Kris Humbeeck, professor of Literature at the University of Antwerp.
On 25 November 1925, St. Bede's and its affiliates received the news of the passing away of Rev. Fr. George Tomatis at St. Martha's Hospital in Bangalore. Fr. Thomatis was the leader of the first pioneering group of Salesians who came to India from Europe in 1906, he directed the San Thome Orphanage from 1901 till his death in 1925 at the age of sixty. Fr. Hanker, S.D.B. takes charge of the Orphanage.
Oscar August Hankner (June 18, 1908 – October 3, 1946) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois in 1938 and at East Carolina Teachers College—now known as East Carolina University–in 1939, compiling a career college football coaching record 1–14. He was also the head basketball coach at Eureka from 1937 to 1939, tallying a mark of 13–18. Hanker was born in Tripoli, Iowa.
The Joseph Newburger House is a historic house in Memphis in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It was built in 1912 for Joseph Newburger, a businessman from Mississippi who was the founder of the Newburger Cotton Company as well as the president of the Memphis Packing Corporation, the Memphis Rice Mills, and the Joy Rice Milling Company. With The house has been home to the Memphis Theological Seminary since 1963. The house was designed by Hanker & Cairns in the Beaux Arts architectural style.
61(3) Edmundson, Mark According to Robert Tobin, a writer for Philosophy and Literature, "Readers who still hanker for expository prose without digressions might on occasion be frustrated with this book, as will readers whose politics differ from Sedgwick's. Nonetheless, it is probably precisely those readers who could learn the most from Epistemology of the Closet, which reestablishes Sedgwick's position as one of the most important thinkers in American gay studies."Robert Tobin. Philosophy and Literature, Volume 15, Number 2, October 1991, pp.
The story ends with the farmer saying: "I kin eat a crow, but I be darned if I hanker after it." Although the humor might produce a weak smile today, it was probably a knee slapper by 19th-century standards, guaranteeing the story would be often retold in print and word of mouth, thus explaining, in part, the idiom's origin. In 1854 Samuel Putnam Avery published a version called "Crow Eating" in his collection Mrs. Parkington's Carpet-Bag of Fun.
Seeking out a radio tower he envisioned earlier, Red encounters The Chemist, a mysterious drug manufacturer, who tells him where to find the Children of the New Dawn. At their makeshift wooden church in a quarry, Red kills Brothers Swan and Hanker with his axe and kills Brother Klopek in a chainsaw duel, sparing only the life of Sister Lucy. Traversing the tunnels beneath the church, Red finds Mother Marlene and decapitates her. He then finds Sand, taunting him by rolling out Marlene's severed head.
There are also many other examples of a fairy mistress bestowing favor upon a mortal man within Irish folklore. After providing many examples of this theme within early Celtic literature, Cross states that, “Those given (examples) above demonstrate beyond the possibility of doubt that stories of fee who hanker after mortal earth-born lovers and who visit mortal soil in search of their mates existed in early Celtic tradition…”.Cross, Tom P. “The Celtic Elements in the Lays of ‘Lanval’ and ‘Graelent’.” Modern Philology.
In 1918 the school name was changed to Crockett Vocational High School, with four teachers and 232 students. In 1921 the name was changed again to Crockett Technical High School. Soon a new building was required, and it was decided that the nearby palatial Van Vleet mansion on Poplar Avenue would be demolished in favour of a modern school building. The school board paid $90,000 for the property on which the home was located, and spent $500,000 to build the new school, built by the architectural firm of Hanker, Cairns, and Wallace.
Anniston is an Amtrak train station at 126 West 4th Street in Anniston, Alabama. It is served by the passenger train. The station was originally designed by Milo R. Hanker and built in 1925 for the Southern Railway, and was one of the last railroad-operated active passenger stations in the country, as the Southern Crescent (predecessor to the current Amtrak train) was still operated by the Southern well into the Amtrak era. In 2008, the city completed a full rehabilitation of the classical revival depot, primarily using funds obtained through the Federal Highway Administration's Transportation Enhancements (TE) program.
Morton is the son of Arnie Morton, founder of the Morton's Steakhouse chain, and his first wife.People: "Happy Days Are Here Again as Peter Morton Opens a Hot Spot That Makes Hollywood Hanker for the '50s" By Wanda McDaniel February 21, 2013 His father was of Jewish descent. In 1969, he graduated from the University of Denver with a B.S.B.A. in restaurant and hotel management.University of Denver Alumni Relations Bulletin: "Daniels Lunch and Learn with Peter Morton" March 1, 2013 His twin sister is Pam Morton; and his half-brother is restaurateur and businessman Michael Morton.
Frank Hayes Wheaton Sr. (March 16, 1881 - April 1983) was president of Wheaton Industries from 1926 to 1966 and chairman of the board from 1931 until his death. He is one of a handful of centenarians to chair corporate boards, and was the subject of a front page article in The Wall Street Journal shortly before his 100th birthday; it was titled, At 99, the Chairman Still Doesn't Hanker for a Life of Retirement. Residents of Millville, New Jersey turned out for a parade in 1981 to honor Wheaton on the occasion of his 100th birthday.Staff. "Millville puts on parade as glass maker turns 100", The Baltimore Sun, March 17, 1981.
Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, Ahmadiyyat: the renaissance of Islam, Tabshir Publications, 1978, p.189. Subsequently, Ahmad compared Douglas favourably with Pontius Pilate, declaring him to be a man of much superior character, stating, > In my opinion, Captain Douglas outshines Pilate in imparting judgment > fearlessly and in showing determination and steadfastness ... Pilate showed > cowardice due to fear of the High Priest and the Elders, and acted in a > cowardly manner. But Captain Douglas showed no sign of weakness ... Those > who are blessed with honour from above do not hanker after worldly honours. > This commendable courtesy by the 'Pilate' of our time shall be remembered by > all my followers when I am gone.
Between 1952 and 1975 he published more than twenty novels, as well as two collections of short stories, a heavily edited collection of his letters, a volume of memoirs, and a selection of his magazine articles. He continued to hanker after a revival of his theatrical career. A 1959 off-Broadway revival of the 1917 Bolton- Wodehouse-Kern Leave It to Jane was a surprise hit, running for 928 performances, but his few post-war stage works, some in collaboration with Bolton, made little impression.Jasen, pp. 241 and 275; and Wodehouse and Ratcliffe, p. 472 Although Ethel made a return visit to England in 1948 to shop and visit family and friends, Wodehouse never left America after his arrival in 1947.
He supported Chamberlain's efforts to negotiate with Adolf Hitler in September 1938, culminating in the Munich Agreement, and after Hitler broke the agreement by occupying Prague in March 1939 Butler continued to urge rapprochement with Germany and – up to the very outbreak of war – to oppose Britain going to war for the sake of Poland. After the outbreak of war he continued to hanker towards a compromise peace, and in June 1940 he had a mysterious meeting with the Swedish trade envoy Björn Prytz, at which he declared that British attitude to peace would be based on "common sense not bravado". Thereafter he retained his job at the Foreign Office until May 1941 but appears to have been kept away from serious decision-making. Butler's later claims in his memoirs (1971), that he had supported appeasement merely to gain time for rearmament, are not supported by contemporary evidence.
The feast day of the Virgin is celebrated every September 9 with much solemnity and joy for the people will carry her image in procession while waving their white hanker chiefs singing her joyful hymn. Her feast day was once celebrated every Sunday or Sunday near Pentecost until it was discovered by then Parish Priest Reverend Father Marcelino Prudente that in Onate, Spain, they celebrate her feast day on September 9 and through his efforts, Bishop Protacio Gungon, then the Bishop of the Diocese of Antipolo, declared that the feast of the Virgin will be celebrated on September 9 in 1989. Today, every ninth and Second Saturday of the month is dedicated for the devotion to the Virgin of Aranzazu that is still practiced in the shrine up to the present. The devotion to Nuestra Senora de Aranzazu continues to inspire the people of San Mateo to strive for their faith.

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