Indeed, it is going to be a struggle bargaining with the powers that be to achieve our aspirations. |
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The decline in status that colonial life entailed must have dealt a severe blow to their aspirations. |
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You wax idealistic, which uncages a backlog of dreamy aspirations you've kept in lockdown. |
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The film is also interesting as an illustration of newfound working class affluence and aspirations. |
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They head back to that very base this summer after a year that has comfortably exceeded any aspirations they held before the season's start. |
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In defenders' eyes, he may appear bothersome, but the man himself is keeping his aspirations in check. |
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How in the world could a school with such a dinky gym ever help a league with big-time aspirations? |
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Learning how to serve had begun to yield to women's changing aspirations and increasing economic emancipation. |
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They have nothing to do with the aspirations of the Kashmiris or the Afghans. |
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Regardless, it raises interesting questions concerning the ways in which sexual attraction is bound up with aspirations. |
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Can the dreams, the aspirations and traditions of the ancient Gael be translated into English? |
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For someone who had aspirations of becoming London's top citizen, he ought to be aware that metal watchbands are non-U in the best circles. |
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We must win the argument for the investment we require in order to realise our collective aspirations. |
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One little girl struggles to separate two stacked chairs as she discusses her aspirations. |
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Their aspirations for independent statehood has been consistently frustrated since the days of the Ottoman Empire. |
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Gay marriage is, obviously, completely consonant with liberal aspirations to make marriage something that everyone can aspire to. |
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The survey would not only be of the buildings, but of the attitudes and aspirations of the community. |
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Her descent partly explains her son's baronial aspirations and his love of his personal heraldry. |
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In their attempt to adopt the norm of this group, they manifest their aspirations of upward social mobility, but they overshoot the mark. |
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In my inauguration speech last year I expressed my hopes and aspirations for the year. |
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As a consequence the works do not seem to have much relevance to the needs and aspirations of the local community. |
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It is always easy to achieve equality for the many if we keep our aspirations fairly low. |
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She works hard for the money, and she also has aspirations to move on up into management. |
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Until reality can catch up with aspirations, this emotional deprivation will continue. |
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It amuses me that with all his literary aspirations he can't even spell his own surname. |
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The team was well prepared and focussed and had genuine aspirations of bring home the cup. |
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For Telugus world over, Ugadi has a special significance, as it heralds the onset of a new year, the beginning of new hopes and aspirations. |
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That should never be a reason for ignoring the rights and aspirations of any group of people. |
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It spoke of the hurt as well as the hopes and aspirations of an underclass. |
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So since you have replaced your law career with a career as a prizefighter, do you have some other aspirations when you leave boxing? |
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Government and landlords tried to keep the lid on rising wages and changing social aspirations. |
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A vibrant economy would help sustain the tribe's social and cultural aspirations, he said. |
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It was time to get on with several aspirations that I'd been consistently pushing to one side for several years. |
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They certainly seem focused on the needs and aspirations of a real customer, rather than jockeying for celebrity endorsements. |
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The effect is like combining the highest culinary aspirations with the vaguely desperate glitziness of a downtown nightclub. |
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Inside, concourses and shop units are suitably smartened up to indicate the centre's new aspirations. |
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They called these aspirations pierres d' attente, toothing stones, that jut out from a wall in order to mesh with an eventual addition. |
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It is not only the culture of MTV that defines the lives and aspirations of young, urban Balinese. |
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Some will smirk at such lofty aspirations, calling them silly, if not impossible. |
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His wasp-waisted, long-limbed figures express the era's aspirations and opulence with disarming force. |
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Do they have the same lofty goals and aspirations as able-bodied individuals? |
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It mixes first-order statements about rights and responsibilities with second-order legal arrangements and often vague policy aspirations. |
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It did its best to prevent any cricketers with aspirations of representing the USA in internationals from playing for ProCricket. |
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Some students have trouble coping with friends or family members who are antagonistic to their teaching aspirations. |
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Academia remains too strong a lure but with over three years left on her study roll, will twin aspirations prove too burdensome a load? |
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The electric bull gives city folk the means to live out their rodeo aspirations. |
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In the first place it encouraged a certain folie de grandeur in terms of my literary aspirations and my estimation of my own talent. |
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What he disliked most about the Church was the association between its rigidly enforced doctrines and its historic political aspirations. |
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If things go on unchanged, by 2007 that disease will be incurable and give the lie to all our aspirations. |
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Blackpool, with its Las Vegas aspirations and seedy seafront reality, is a natural for television drama. |
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Their narrow minded ideas and aims are a threat to the aspirations of this town. |
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Oral folktales often expressed the hopes and aspirations of a peasant class where paupers became princes and virtuous girls princesses. |
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In high school, gymnastics and wrestling had an early hold on Stephan's athletic aspirations. |
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Their thinking, ideas, and aspirations should be a part of the planning exercise for their city. |
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Lee is perhaps the foremost symbol of Taiwan's aspirations to statehood and international recognition and his visit will be of huge importance. |
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She shares our vision and aspirations for this unique venture, and brings a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to the project. |
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Like all complex matters and processual moments in time, concerns and aspirations twelve years on from the Mabo decision vary markedly. |
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The young students are products of post-apartheid South Africa with its rainbow nation aspirations. |
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Poles, Hungarians, and ordinary Russians saw us as credible champions of their democratic aspirations. |
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She says my goals and aspirations inspire her, and frankly, I want to be worthy of her admiration. |
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Growing numbers believe that these humanist aspirations are essential for the well-being and continuance of our species. |
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Copeland evidently regarded such aspirations with deep hostility and responded by entering into fascist political activity for the first time. |
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She says money isn't everything, but it remains the key to unlocking aspirations. |
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Lower-class women were deprived of any way of voicing their aspirations and grievances. |
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The Italian Presidency will continue to support the efforts that these countries make in furtherance of their European aspirations. |
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As an organization, the Black Hand had aspirations to rearrange the whole Balkan peninsula. |
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From lawyers to lion tamers, some of their career aspirations may surprise you. |
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That's simply unacceptable for a junior varsity team, much less a team with Super Bowl aspirations. |
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The aspirations of these voters are far higher than other voters and hence, they are more demanding and impatient. |
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It is just that aspirations at the club have tended towards the more ambitious side. |
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I'm afraid I will have to crush your dreams and creative aspirations, for your own good. |
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More importantly, it reflects the lowering of all our aspirations and expectations. |
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Each person has values, plans, aspirations, and feelings about how that life should go. |
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Again, the bittersweet humour rested on aspirations never being truly realised. |
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How do you harness the aspirations of your staff through career development opportunities? |
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Keep in mind your summer job does not have to be directly related to your career aspirations. |
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Most important of all it aims to return to us a human face, a set of wants and needs, of aspirations and desires. |
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But with the humour comes the sort of frustrations one faces if you have aspirations above your status. |
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This completely fails to recognise the critical importance that success in business has in funding our aspirations for the public services. |
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Politicians have most of our aspirations pinned on them, with low expectations they will deliver. |
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Yet his vague unwillingness to discuss specific strategies suggests that these aspirations will merely remain a twinkling in Mr Simpson's eye. |
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These days, when he is not following the gee-gees, he has aspirations to be a screenwriter. |
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An outsider might simplistically equate this action with a straightforward crackdown on democratic aspirations for political freedom. |
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His enthusiasm for this activity, as well as malt whisky, was much touted as emblematic of new ideological and social aspirations. |
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Their concern is that utopian aspirations towards a new peaceful world order will simply absolutize conflicts and make them more intractable. |
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They don't yearn for the radical transformation of bourgeois aspirations devoutly wished by stalwarts. |
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He is a television regular, lacerating the aspirations of bumbling, wannabe chefs. |
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Educated young people who had failed to get into university were unfitted by their education and aspirations to enter industry. |
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His father was a poor cobbler with great cultural aspirations and his mother a semi-literate washerwoman. |
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Is the disgust directed here at design actually disgust at its co-option by consumerism, its low aspirations? |
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When his political aspirations waned, he thought the video would serve as social commentary. |
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The talented chef, who says the crash cost him his job and marriage, said he still had aspirations to pursue a career in catering. |
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How can the highest aspirations of verse be linked to such rhetorical devices? |
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The film highlights the identity crisis of young Tibetans, their aspirations and their love for their nation. |
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An organisation which conducts itself in this manner can have no real aspirations to engage with the political mainstream. |
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Yet Matthew, 36, also intends his pieces to function as an ironic comment on the aspirations of society. |
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He was a pioneer of the holistic approach, who understood the anxieties, aspirations, and sensitivities of his patients. |
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I favour expeditiousness, to clear the path so that our aspirations are not twisted by protracted disputes over acre, rood, and perch. |
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It raises the aspirations of its pupils, both in the leafy suburbs and the inner city. |
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His celebration, his hopes and further aspirations should not just be seen as inspiration within the ethnic community. |
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Some of these aspirations are based in the undeniable areas of overlap between writing, editing and design. |
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This collection ought to be a set text for anyone with aspirations to humorous journalism. |
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From the start, his themes were expressive of his personal traumas, his aversions and aspirations, and above all conflict with authority. |
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It is intended that the plan will be an accurate reflection of the needs and aspirations of the residents of the village. |
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Scotland, despite a poor series of results leading up to the tournament, possess lofty aspirations. |
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Sleep is often chemically induced when the effort of trying to achieve those aspirations becomes too much. |
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She had a unique ability to express the aspirations of businessmen and trades unionists, professionals and council tenants. |
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By aligning the owners' aspirations with those of their emerging management team, the prospects of future success are greatly increased. |
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The art of painting, many artists believed, ought to have grander aspirations. |
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The film feels a pale imitation of something that came long ago but isn't quite living up to its yesteryear aspirations. |
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Entrenched gender roles in these families can act as suppressors to the women's educational and career aspirations. |
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One does not understand why the Congress legislators were keen for ministerships if they could not satisfy the people's aspirations. |
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That achievement, however tentative and imperfect, would ignite mounting aspirations for democratization from Iran to Morocco. |
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Later, as his literary aspirations stalled after the publication of a few early short stories, he acquired a day job. |
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So there go my aspirations of editing my inbox to have Sciby confess his want for some neons to put on the underside of his car. |
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I didn't really expect it to be like the movies, but I had the same hopeful aspirations every college-bound senior has. |
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Supported by parents and friends, the youngsters tied the harness of the parasail and were airborne like their aspirations. |
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For him, however, music is a medium that mirrors the world, reflecting the mores and aspirations of its young. |
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We must consciously and calculatedly plan to prepare our people to compete to promote and defend our interests and aspirations. |
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I have no aspirations to be a domestic goddess any more than Nigella does. |
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Today's commune members strive to reconcile communal responsibility with individual ambitions and aspirations. |
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The following track pushes their acid rock aspirations to the forefront. |
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Political instability means economic uncertainty, and popular aspirations for a growing economy and a stable, professional government seem increasingly quixotic. |
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What we want to find out is to explore all the points of view, the advantages and the disadvantages, the benefits and disbenefits, people's hopes, aspirations. |
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Nothing illustrated so well the disjunction between carefully formulated common aspirations and the reality of divergent values than the situation earlier this year. |
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They remain rather vague about how they will achieve these aspirations. |
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He explains that all these aspects contain a duality born of the reconcilability of African literary aspirations on one-hand, and Western standards on the other. |
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In war, for instance, we certainly mean to confine our aspirations for life to ourselves and our allies. |
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Apparently, the reason for our seemingly inexplicable discontent is simply that our whacking great aspirations have outstripped our ability to fulfil them. |
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Kingston Council is to carry out a mailshot of residents in the borough to find out more about the employment needs and aspirations of people with physical disabilities. |
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We, meanwhile, struggle to din some culture into our own young people whose aspirations have been hijacked by the consumerism of big corporations. |
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More than a few were willing to be open about their sexual, if not romantic, aspirations. |
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First, Michelle raised the aspirations and sense of urgency for the entire reform movement. |
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And for the inescapably materialistic aspirations of that blacksmith, DuBois did not have much regard. |
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Neil's job aspirations have not matched up to what was expected. |
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I feel like a dunce in this company, until I get talking to some of my mates in the group who share a lot of my frustrations and aspirations, and are a holy if unruly group. |
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Though Fallon and Kimmel have similar roots, both born in Brooklyn, they differed in their aspirations. |
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The dilemma is how to satisfy their separate demands and aspirations for a tiny piece of land. |
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When dirk abandons his artistic aspirations to become a bond trader, even Selina seems to lose interest in dirk. |
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Aside from an occasional strip-club foray, Phoenix appears to have tabled his hip-hop aspirations. |
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Her aspirations are exactly what you'd expect from a budding beauty queen. |
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She is always being asked how she came to write a latter-day Greek tragedy with such an insight into gang culture, social warfare and male aspirations. |
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Her father, Jules-Joseph, a retired army captain of the Zouaves who had lost a leg in the Italian wars, was a tax-collector with local political aspirations. |
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Here, her subjects range from the aspirations of a little girl in Harlem to Bessie Smith's vocals, angel food cake and the goings on at the local shooting range. |
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It must be relevant to people's dreams, hopes, desires, aspirations. |
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It's an embarrassment, a sign of succumbing to the ever-increasing pressures of society, failing the sisterhood, giving in to the boring aspirations of the perfect body. |
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Hertli also is considering creating lower-price items for those with shallower pockets but gilded aspirations. |
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In her silver jubilee speech she said that while she understood independence aspirations, she wanted to see the UK remain united. |
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He admired Tom Wolfe, and he had shockingly grand, novelistic aspirations of capturing full men. |
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And yet, surreally, DSK's Manhattan arrest would prove only the very beginning of the end of his aspirations to power in France. |
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In his long, miserable chauvinist career, he has done more to block women, their views, and their professional aspirations than any journalist I know. |
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For hundreds of years into the empire, the preferred language of the sultans was Persian and their courtly customs and aspirations were shaped by Iranian models. |
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As a result, the Cultural Revolution proved to be something of a non-event, in comparison with the chiliastic aspirations with which it had begun. |
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These critics have rightly emphasized Tourgee's influence on Chesnutt's career as a writer, as one of the sparks which ignited his literary aspirations. |
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That also meant losing any feeling for the real aspirations of those whom he purported to come from, who are the real swing voters who decide elections. |
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And at the same time, it's essential, because of what is now happening in Ukraine, that we indicate a willingness to be responsive to Ukrainian aspirations. |
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But where to draw the line between present needs and future aspirations, between particularism and universalism, between cultural difference and economic progress? |
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If Wright had aspirations to fight in one of the war's main theaters after enlisting with the Sixth Iowa Cavalry Regiment, he was quickly disabused of the idea. |
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During the last century, Finland has reinvented itself as a highly sophisticated, socially urbane culture with the highest aspirations for design and for architecture. |
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The human skull is familiar from the tradition of vanitas paintings where it serves to indicate the futility of human aspirations by stressing the ephemerality of human life. |
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The poem seems to punish the romantic for no knowing enough, for not guessing at the fervourless state of a culture shorn of idealistic aspirations. |
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His ascetic aspirations did not make him wish to be a hermit. |
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But Arctic Bay residents have received little help and support in advancing their proposal, and their aspirations are now drowning in bureaucratic inertia. |
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And what of her wider dreams and aspirations or even her immediate thoughts as she slipped home with her sack of groceries and her pocketful of coins? |
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He got over his thespian aspirations pretty quickly and signed up to the infant Radio station as a vision-mixer, then a cameraman and floor manager. |
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The guy has brought all his resources to bear to pay tribute to blue collar heroism, dignify mundane aspirations, memorialize the dead, and console the survivors. |
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After acquiring the basic skills, the learners are made to write down their life experiences and aspirations and what they have gained from the programme. |
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Once that was done, they were supposed to revert to docile, compliant citizens, content to cooperate with allies no longer supportive of their aspirations. |
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Eloquent on workers' aspirations, Lyons retells their stories, creating a flowing account of t heir tastes in literature and growing awareness of their own interests. |
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His failure to understand human aspirations made utopias hard to find. |
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Reflecting the rivalrous aspirations of a tumultuous, multilayered and multicultural society, it voices itself in a multitude of apparently incongruous vocabularies of form. |
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The origins of this project lie in the aspirations of the EU to foster and develop greater links of communication and co-operation between Europeans. |
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For the Viennese positivists, Heidegger's work is the return to a reactionary, anti-scientific metaphysics, which is allied politically to pan-Germanic aspirations. |
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Losing faith in the customary avenues for change, they began to seek new outlets for their aspirations in Masonic lodges, provincial academies, and political clubs. |
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The aspirations of the various nationalities of the empire were rigorously suppressed, and a determined effort was made to fuse them into one state. |
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Darn my parents for their early starts in their careers and their relationship together, setting me up with these ridiculous aspirations and expectations! |
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His paintings were the product of a fertile imagination, love of the sea, and the transcendental aspirations common to several 19th-century American painters. |
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The mismatch between the assimilationist aspirations of young immigrants and the discriminatory instincts of the French was highlighted by two polls in this period. |
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Solahudin suggested a periodic dialog among religious organizations to communicate their aspirations and define the clear direction of their respective struggles. |
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It should be no wonder that they abandon books, manifest lower intelligence quotients, fail to achieve academically, and have depressed professional aspirations. |
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The film has clear mass appeal in spite of the intellectual aspirations. |
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In both cases large, impersonal, bureaucratic structures proved incapable of responding to the needs of a more diverse population and their non-material aspirations. |
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You can almost imagine him at the school dance as the wallflower, smiling a secret smile to himself as he watched the gyrations and romantic aspirations of others. |
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These conditions create the possibility for a new political force to arise quickly and fill the abyss between the ruling regime and popular aspirations. |
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After comfortably accounting for Haydock away and Newton-le Willows at home they destroyed the hopes of Highfield who themselves had aspirations to become league leaders. |
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Unintentionally, Anne's step showed her to be a wise and unpretentious woman, whose only aspirations for her children were that that they live happy and fulfilled lives. |
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More generally, they regarded him as unsympathetic to popular aspirations and intent on imposing a restrictive arrangement with precipitate haste. |
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The nations that wrap themselves most tightly in international law are actually those responsible for turning that law, and its aspirations for the world, into a dead letter. |
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Symptoms of laryngeal FBs differ from other tracheobronchial FB aspirations, and they are often more difficult to diagnose. |
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That phenomenon is not limited to peaceniks with spiritual aspirations. |
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One of my real aspirations of this is I wanna see interstellar wars between Care Bears and Klingons. |
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This speaks of unfulfilled and unfulfillable aspirations in our young men. |
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The students were unsatisfied with an education system that did not meet their aspirations and gave limited prospects for future employment. |
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However, the idea was unacceptable to the British, who had their own aspirations of contiguous British territory running from Cairo to Cape Town. |
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It also puts human and enviroenmental security at the center of its aspirations. |
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As Pietism spread, the movement's ideals and aspirations influenced and were absorbed into early Evangelicalism. |
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The industry is based around people's dreams and aspirations, and network television can be a fair-weather friend. |
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The seat must fit the fundaments of all while up above the artiste does his or her best to match the stylistic aspirations of the client. |
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It may appear skillless for a preacher to snub the simple aspirations of his audience so brutally. |
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They could be vulnerable and reveal their fears and aspirations. |
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Gervinus wrote with elitist disdain about the mechanicals of the play and their acting aspirations. |
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Denmark's large colonial aspirations were limited to a few key trading posts in Africa and India. |
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Modern Irish nationalism with democratic aspirations began in the 1790s with the founding of the Society of the United Irishmen. |
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Many other factors involved resentments and aspirations given focus by the rise of Enlightenment ideals. |
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Rising aspirations of people are placing more demands on financial resources. |
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A soldier in the service of ideals and aspirations that formed his core. |
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Satan is very devoted to his cause, although that cause is evil but he strives to spin his sinister aspirations to appear as good ones. |
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Frustrated by his bandmates' limited aspirations, Bowie left the Konrads and joined another band, the King Bees. |
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She is reported to have been talented and respected, with aspirations of becoming a concert pianist. |
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There is a large transitory population in Tijuana due to border aspirations or deportations. |
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It examines with a fine toothcomb the aspirations of each character and how these are challenged by their relationships. |
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Many of his lyrics are heartsongs that will chord with human life as long as it has sorrows and aspirations. |
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Mulla called for adopting a group of national laws capable of dealing with the variables and meeting the aspirations of the Iraqi people. |
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This prohibition was unique to American slavery, believed to reduce slaves forming aspirations that could lead to escape or rebellion. |
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Parked atop a bed of rock salt, the auto stood as an objet trouve emblematizing the upward aspirations of the Motor City. |
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The Calvinistic Methodists are intensely national in sentiment and aspirations, beyond all suspicion loyalists. |
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Mills had harboured Derby aspirations for his pounds 100,000 recruit, but a suspensory ligament injury put paid to that. |
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Cooperativeness, cooperation, and partnership are the only aspirations which, in this context, do not stop. |
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Awen suggests both poetic inspiration and the general creative vision by which people and societies form their aspirations. |
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The doll is held during difficult procedures such as spinal taps or bone marrow aspirations that require the patient to be motionless. |
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Chelone, who died last year at 29, had his own Olympic aspirations, and Miller doubled over and cried when asked about his late brother. |
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Fatal complications have been reported following sternal aspirations resulting in cardiac tamponade. |
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But their aspirations could be canalised into a grant of effective autonomy. |
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Ghazi says Yemen's uprising is driven not by democratic aspirations but by bandits trying to incite chaos. |
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Those most likely to politically sympathise with the aspirations of indigenous people are those least likely to have a real and incommutable relationship to country. |
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Finland, small though it may be, had aspirations toward a Greater Finland, a union encompassing the Ingrians, Vepsians, and Karelians subdued within the great Soviet Empire. |
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Rookies are unencumbered, with no baggage to weigh them down, no resources to burden them, and no track record to limit their thinking or aspirations. |
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But it is the 'European' character of the ECHR that attracts politicians like Andrew Mitchell, and so well suits the aspirations of our closet Eurofederalists. |
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This system reorganized Europe into spheres of influence, which, in some cases, suppressed the aspirations of the various nationalities, including the Germans and Italians. |
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In short, there prevailed a sense of collective interest and purpose that gave substance to individual aspirations as well as to those of the group. |
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And they had fallen into something that was at least infatuation at first sight, woozily reconfiguring each other to match their own aspirations and illusions. |
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While accepting these theories as relevant, one must consider their origins, stemming from European culture and a tradition of universalizing aspirations. |
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Another common issue in federal systems is the conflict between regional and national interests, or between the interests and aspirations of different ethnic groups. |
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It's an alliance based on shared values and common aspirations. |
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Input from Calgarians will help the city identify perceptions of culture and its value, as well as collect ideas and aspirations for Calgary's cultural future. |
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Langland is, I think, optimistically insisting on the accommodatedness even of the fallen world of sin and suffering to the spiritual aspirations of man. |
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All the while Russian policy is driven by aspirations and assumptions fueled steroidally by energy revenue, temporarily diminished at this writing. |
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Luttrell wanted the drawings to reflect the current devotional, cultural, political, economic and dynastic aspirations that he and his family had. |
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For builders, these tie-ups are an attempt to capitalise on the growing aspirations of prospective buyers who want enhanced luxury experience and unique lifestyle. |
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Sovietologists had difficulty comprehending the organizational nature of the Soviet economy because they were uninformed about its Marxian aspirations. |
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At the instigation of Colbert, whose rigid honesty was scandalised by Fouquet's large-handed and prodigal corruption, Louis determined to curb these soaring aspirations. |
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Orderic Vitalis later recorded that Odo had aspirations to become pope. |
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Clearly enough, the suggestion is that equalitarian aspirations may find satisfaction in the social and cultural setting which graduates are said to enjoy. |
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When word of his aspirations to make himself king reached the Helvetii, Orgetorix was summoned to stand trial, facing execution on the pyre should he be found guilty. |
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He considered the dynamic forces of history as being the hopes and aspirations of people that took the form of ideas, and were often ossified into ideologies. |
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