The phrase "a certain aspiration" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific but not explicitly defined goal or desire someone may have.
Example: "She has a certain aspiration to become a leader in her field, though she hasn't shared the details with anyone."
Alternatives: "a specific ambition" or "a particular goal".
A second aspect of American exceptionalism is that while in other countries citizenship is a function of birth and blood, you become an American by assimilating to a certain way of life, a certain aspiration.
One is infusion of NO-free air into one nostril, at a certain aspiration flow, while extracting air from the other nostril where it is analyzed, and the other is direct sampling from the nose with an airstream generated by the analyzer.
The pleasure of magazines has always been about a certain deluded aspiration – the "you, but better" philosophy.
For some people who knew him, Mason captured a certain liberal aspiration for what the city could be.
In the three essays of Part 2, in which he revisits Robinson and goes on to less weighty essays about black athletic performance and the disappearance of African-Americans from baseball, he is "a writer about sports (not a sportswriter)" with "a certain literary aspiration".
Because it was what couples of a certain age, with certain aspirations to family life, did.
We all start off in our career with certain aspirations and goals and, if we are successful (and a little lucky), we get an opportunity that calls for us to make this kind of a critical choice.
But while the euro has already disappointed certain aspirations and has not been popularly embraced, it has hardly been a failure.
In this way, oddly enough, the liberal view is consonant with certain aspirations of the Bush administration.
But his mistakes illuminate useful truths: that all people share certain aspirations and that history is wide open.
But the poets Alexander told Dwight Garner of the Times that she's been reading in preparation for her task — Virgil, Auden, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Gwendolyn Brooks — suggest that she has certain aspirations in mind: linguistic clarity, moral intensity, historical resonance, intellectual power.
