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Examples of hanker


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There are real pleasures which accrue from country life and living and working in the country, as indeed the townsman knows and hankers after.
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He was quite clearly hankering again for the old days of opposition when he attacked this side.
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There are in the possession of hankers enormous quantities of securities of various kinds to which they have no legal title.
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We have hankers, captains of industry, barristers and other learned professions.
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We understand the reasons why that must be done, as do foreign exchange dealers and hankers, but the mass of ordinary people in this country do not.
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Presumably we have civil servants indulging in negotiations with companies about participation on a straight old-fashioned bargaining basis, the kind of bargaining which one employs merchant hankers to do.
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The fat does not last and you cannot keep on larding it on, although international financiers and monied interests in this country have hankered after the past.
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They are hankering after the means-tested society.
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They are hankering after a common currency.
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By 1999, however, only the security services still hankered after key escrow.
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Subsequently, the pilot resumes his career piloting the large passenger planes he had been hankering after.
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To those who hankered after the glamour of the pre-war seasons he was a minor figure among international maestros.
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The same sense is expressed by emotions such as craving or hankering.
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They hanker after a largely mythical 19th century vision of laissez-faire.
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We should not hanker after a parental golden age—it never existed—nor should we return to the practice of giving children so-called discipline.
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They hanker after the days when they were busy around the factory or the office.
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There are those who, even now, still hanker after isolation.
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We need not go abroad for a new form of government, nor hanker after anything which comes from foreign countries.
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They hanker for the days when we could draw our food cheaply from all over the world.
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They have a certain lack of reality as to our influence in the world, and each hanker after neutralism.
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They still hanker after permanent land bases, perfectly adequate if we can reach them, a death trap if we cannot in wartime.
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There are those who would hanker romantically after the old ways and the old days.
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I know that they hanker, as we all hanker, after putting the valuations on a more realistic and more up-to-date basis.
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I also believe that it will bring about a development where those who hanker after the constituency system are really and truly behind the game.
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In other words, they still seem to hanker after self-inspection, which, of course, we cannot accept.
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They hanker after the old days of interventionism, central planning, state finance, monopolies, and regulation of this and that—in fact, all the old stuff that we had in the past.
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They still hanker after that.
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I find it extraordinary that anyone should hanker after those three-hour debates during which, by their very nature, the non-participants in the detailed work used to make all the running.
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Most people at heart do not really like supermarkets and hanker after the old times when one could pick and choose and be served by an assistant.
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They hanker after the public school entry.
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Few people, other than those who hanker nostalgically for a feudal system of landholding or who have a vested interest in retaining the status quo, will object to the concept.
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He was simple in his habit and did not hanker after any luxury.
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Who does nt hanker for a doughnut now and then?
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The uncertainties and anxieties that accompany this fast pace of change leaves them hankering after the imagined certitudes and securities of a more 'stable' past.
He can perceive the beauty of women without hankering after them.
While some still hankered after large salaries and new careers, most appeared only too willing to take whatever they could get.
In contrast, the recently completed library possesses a verve and zest which conveys a dynamism that many of the more established universities might hanker after.
A lot of people hanker after making a big scientific discovery in their spare time.
I think he was hankering after the days when the drive was the drive of poverty and unemployment.
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They are hankering after military service because they feel that our society does not offer sufficient communal life to make it worth living in it.
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I have been hankering for the opportunity to tackle this through the taxation system.
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I sometimes believe that he hankers back to the 1960s—we all do in some ways.
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We know very well the alternative solutions which many of their wisest leaders hankered after.
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The older ones hankered a bit for the past, where perhaps everything was simpler.
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We shall be unable to face the real challenges because we shall still be hankering after past glories that we can no longer achieve.
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He hankers after an interventionist approach that has already been tried and found wanting.
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They are always hankering after what they call the "legitimate" poacher.
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If there is anyone who secretly hankers after that, let him get up and declare it now.
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