souhaiter

Quoique personne n’exprimât ainsi ouvertement cette pensée, il n’y en avait pas un parmi eux, sauf Judas Iscariot, qui n’eût souhaité être à la place de Jean Marc.
Though no man openly so expressed his thoughts, there was not one of them, save Judas Iscariot, who did not wish himself in John Mark's place.
Bien que la délégation ivoirienne eût souhaité des limites plus élevées, le fait de soutenir le compromis envoie un signal fort dans le sens de la défense du principe d'universalité.
Although his own delegation would have liked higher limits, support for the compromise text sent a strong signal of support for the principle of universality.
Si elle avait déjà établi davantage de contacts avec la population locale qu’elle ne l’eût souhaité, elle avait cependant aussi atteint les bornes de la discrétion et de la circonspection qui lui étaient naturelles.
She had already made more contact with the local population than she was comfortable with, and she was pushing up against the limits of her natural silence and stealth.
par écrit. - Notre résolution s'adresse au Conseil des droits de l'homme de l'ONU, une institution que l'on eût souhaité élever au rang de gendarme du respect des droits, des valeurs, des libertés les plus fondamentaux dans le monde.
Our resolution is addressed to the UN Human Rights Council, an institution that one would have hoped to promote to the rank of the world's enforcer of respect for rights, values and the most fundamental freedoms.
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