Tchaikovsky wrote various letters to friends expressing his longstanding desire to work with this type of music, and his excitement concerning his current stimulating, albeit laborious task.

And their actions dovetailed nicely with the longstanding desire of Lasorda to become the club's general manager.

Degnan also oversaw the establishment of the Brewster Police Department during his time as mayor, the creation of which was a longstanding desire of his.

Germany has had a longstanding desire for a permanent seat on the Security Council beside Britain and France.

A longstanding desire of Parker's was to perform with a string section.

At the same time, however, Mr. Robaina repeated Cuba's longstanding desire to sit down with American officials to discuss a whole gamut of differences.

These still spaces, which are often empty of people but filled with a silvery light, inspired Gustafson to act on a longstanding desire to draw rooms instead of frocks.

Additionally, Pataki had a longstanding desire to reduce the role of the state in the University's funding which already led to one Chancellor's departure.

Mr. Fujita said he had no immediate plans for new ventures, other than a longstanding desire to purchase a Japanese professional baseball club.