Disconsolate after the death of one son in the White House, she harangues the president not to indulge their firstborn's ardent desire for military service. (nypost.com)
This case does not give us much clue except as a reminder that underneath the all the publicity for the new system lay a bunch of owners whose ardent desire was that «Matt stops smoking in his unit». (law-tech-a2j.org)
By its harshness, the second injected perhaps sufficient realism and an ardent desire for checks and balances, so as to make a new experiment more likely of success. (firstthings.com)