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Example sentences for "aspirations"

Lexicographically close words:
aspirate; aspirated; aspirates; aspirating; aspiration; aspirator; aspire; aspired; aspires; aspireth
  1. But national aspirations exist also in these districts, and it is only natural that the national wishes of the Southern Slavs be duly considered.

  2. The Allies have noted with satisfaction the declaration of the American Secretary of State, to which they adhere, expressing the greatest sympathy with the national aspirations of the Czechs and Jugoslavs for freedom.

  3. The aspirations of the Congress of Oppressed Races of Austria-Hungary, which was held in Rome in April, were indorsed by Secretary Lansing in a statement issued May 29.

  4. The flower is no longer a simple passive victim in the busy bee's sweet pillage, but rather a conscious being, with hopes, aspirations and companionships.

  5. Manifestly, it is better for a plant having aspirations to colonize the globe to set even self-fertilized seed than none at all.

  6. Again, some white flowers which are in a transition state show aspirations after color, often so marked in individuals as to mislead one into believing them products of a far advanced colored type.

  7. He is the idealizing poet of the hopes and aspirations and of the purer and happier life of which the age seemed to contain the promise.

  8. It re-echoed the sentiments, the notions, the aspirations of the people.

  9. Perhaps unconsciously, but nevertheless emphatically, the Republican party in its ensemble was a providential agency; it became the incarnation of the loftiest aspirations of the best among the American people.

  10. This made me laugh, remembering Falkner's aspirations and the cocksure way in which he had "warned me off" that night in Majendwa's country.

  11. At this Dolf Norbury's language grew vehement and sultry again, and was interlarded by many aspirations after just one glimpse of the man who could knock him senseless or knock him anything else.

  12. Let me say at least that they were a poor sequence to the aspirations of Oxford of 'the barbarous Middle Ages.

  13. It was not given to Cicero to stem the tide and to prevent the evil coming of the Cæsars; but still the nature of the life he had led, the dreams of a pure Republic, those aspirations after liberty have not altogether perished.

  14. The reader feels, as he goes on with it, that he who had such thoughts and aspirations could never have been altogether unhappy.

  15. Outside of these was Cicero, who certainly was not a fitting leader when fighting was necessary, and who as to politics in general was fitted rather by noble aspirations than supported by fixed purposes.

  16. The Proprætor would have been forced to abandon his aspirations either for the province or for the Consulship, and no consular governor would have been eligible for a province till after his fiftieth year.

  17. We are driven to wonder that there should have been, at such a period and among such a people, aspirations so noble joined with so much vanity of expression.

  18. I have no aspirations such as those you impute to me.

  19. There had always been a hard worldly leaven of the love either of income or power in the strains that she had heard; there had been no panting for the truth; no aspirations after religious purity.

  20. Have not often the profoundest efforts of genius been used to baffle the aspirations of the reader, to raise false hopes and false fears, and to give rise to expectations which are never realised?

  21. Now the Lookalofts would boast that their aspirations had been sanctioned by the gentry of the country; now they would declare with some show of truth that their claims to peculiar consideration had been recognised.

  22. But he did not deduce from this any assurance that his aspirations were in vain.

  23. The nolo episcopari, though still in use, is so directly at variance with the tendency of all human aspirations of rising priests in the Church of England.

  24. If we look to our clergymen to be more than men, we shall probably teach ourselves to think that they are less, and can hardly hope to raise the character of the pastor by denying to him the right to entertain the aspirations of a man.

  25. To be true in his ideas, unanswerable in his syllogisms, and just in his aspirations was not enough for him.

  26. Then her own heroic aspirations welled up again, bringing intoxication at the prospect of ending the distasteful routine of nursing, by taking an active part in what would be a grand event of history.

  27. Her amusements were trivial, her taste vitiated, her education neglected, her rights violated, her aspirations scorned.

  28. Happily, in our day, the aspirations and ambitions of exact scholarship are more and more directed to the elucidation of the sacred Scriptures of Christianity.

  29. The old civilization was a dismal mockery of the aspirations of man.

  30. Her death was as serene as her life was lofty; repeating, as she passed away, the aspirations of the prophet-king for his eternal home.

  31. And hence their teachings, if they are true to their calling, have reference to interests and duties and aspirations and hopes as far removed in importance from mere temporal matters as the heaven is higher than the earth.

  32. He regarded his change of opinions as rather an act of will than conviction, and believed that in his inner heart he would be haunted by what Shelley considered the better and holier aspirations of his youth.

  33. Prince Mavrocordato was warmed by those aspirations for the independence of his country which filled the hearts of many of his countrymen.

  34. It would matter little whether this aim would agree with my own ideas or be opposed to them, so long as it should be an ideal which would lift the aspirations of the young people out of the fatal grasp of egoistic interests.

  35. The majority of the Arabs were heathen and their religious aspirations were satisfied by local cults of the Old Semitic character.

  36. Here amid the most beautiful manifestations of Nature's power and grandeur they have gained broader hopes, higher aspirations and a purer life.

  37. Surely influences of nature so beautiful and profound should touch our feeble hopes and lowly aspirations with new life, inspiring grander visions.

  38. The day on which Italy will undertake to realize those aspirations she will find full and unconditional support.

  39. Happily our aspirations in the Adriatic, our interests in the Central Mediterranean and in Northern Africa coincide admirably with the policy which it is easiest for us to pursue.

  40. With aspirations to conquer the enemy that would tarnish his name" is merely a phrase flung in for the sake of the sound--let it not mislead the reader.

  41. The deep thoughts, the beautiful sentiments, and the high aspirations expressed in our literature first existed and found expression in the lives of people.

  42. Taste degenerates, and the higher aspirations of art are crippled by distorted products.

  43. The national spirit of the Greeks, inspired by common interests, swayed by the very highest aspirations in arts and sciences, suddenly collapsed into a narrow-minded, particularising egotism.

  44. The utilitarian incubus is as bad as the hierarchical canon; both expel all higher aspirations from the realm of art.


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