Their apparent wish to de-emphasize Karzai's visit, may also indicate the King Abdullah's desire to keep some distance and maintain his credibility as a potential reconciliation mediator.

Obama's apparent wish to stand above the fray is both unrealistic and undesirable, critics say.

My study of their health care program makes me sympathetic with the Clintons' apparent wish to hand it off to strangers.

The fact that I failed does little to mitigate my act, which contradicted your apparent wishes, Daneel.

Though often propositioned, he has no apparent wish to leave Birmingham.

With other regular penalty takers on the pitch, Trotta taking the penalty had been against the apparent wishes of Kevin O'Connor, his captain.

That purpose coincides, perhaps, with his apparent wish to tell a story that is at once universal and specific, a classical fable of love brought to contemporary Israel.

Hughes' apparent wish for redemption is realized in this autobiographical collection of poetry.

Plus what of Megan's apparent wish to be a copywriter now?

He repeated his worry this week about the changes to the unemployment and poverty registers and the apparent wish to change the basis of the retail price index.