When it looked like they weren't going to make it, she had admitted to Rick her lifelong desire to be a bride.

Mr. Leeson, now 44 years old, brought to the school a lifelong desire to be a police officer.

"He gave me a lifelong desire to be there to give any sincere young person with dreams whatever I have to teach," he said.

She was left with a lifelong desire to truly belong in a family, and to bring up children of her own.

She also induced in me a lifelong desire to make my own discoveries, and to share them with others.

She decided to fulfill a lifelong desire to be a professional artist and writer; she quit acting.

But she said yesterday that she has been motivated by a lifelong desire to help patients who suffer with incurable diseases.

Judy helped fulfill a lifelong desire by giving us a home to make our music.

Some of that fascination with memory and time, he said, is a result of his lifelong desire for a mentor.

"I didn't become a president thanks to some latent lifelong desire for the presidency," he said in the interview.