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"I would like to manage my own club one day because the job at Moors whetted my appetite.

"It's whetted my appetite for international football.

Morgan said: 'The Cup run was amazing and it is fair to say it has whetted our appetite.

Accordingly, the reader's interests are whetted by the prospect of a substantive analysis of the ways in which welfare states can indeed be overhauled so that they meet the needs of their citizens through judicious and appropriate state intervention.

Given the scope of Stieglecker's work this frustration on a reader's part is perhaps inevitable: While his linguistic analysis of the poems was sufficient for me, a Neo-Latinist might find her appetite similarly whetted but not sated.

Recently, several exhibitions have brought the artist back into view: A pair of shows at the Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart and a retrospective at Magasin in Grenoble gave European museumgoers a chance to reappraise Goldstein's output, while last year's rehanging of Douglas Crimp's 1977 "Pictures" exhibition at Artists Space whetted appetites in the United States (see Artforum, October 2001).

Just as it is a healthy eating practice to get up from the table a little bit hungry, so perhaps here we English-speaking Catholics are being served a healthy diet in terms of our history because Nicolson has whetted our appetite and we want to know more about the historical evolution of the Catholic Church in English Canada.

My advance enthusiasm for this comic novel had been whetted by a combination of affectionate reviews, and the droll pedigree of author Erik Tarloff, a Hollywood screenwriter who had been treated to a spouse-of-an-insider (his wife is Laura Tyson, the former head of the Council of Economic Advisors) view of Clinton's first term.

Some of this might sound a little color bland, but there was an intrigue that whetted the fashion appetite with freshness.

In the past, Cammermeyer said, she shrugged off suggestions that she run for office, but her involvement as cochair this year in the campaign for Initiative 677, a Washington State ballot measure that would extend job protections to gay men and lesbians, has whetted her appetite for politics.

Wending its merry way through a borrowed classical plot (something about a life-or-death search for an heirloom of hanging scrolls), the company - including Kanoh himself, a rubber-faced, transformative actor with the physicality of Jerry Lewis - risks bad taste, overacting, even nudity as it lampoons its time-honored targets with whetted precision.

Companies also must address the evolving needs of end users whose appetites have been whetted by the power and flexibility of desktop computing applications.

Such results only whetted the scientific appetite, however.

As with many scientists, her interest was whetted way back in high school by a charismatic biology teacher.

THE start of the Premier League season is rightly an exciting time and the best Community Shield in recent memory more than whetted the nation's appetite for battle to commence.