In this section, epigraphy is surveyed for information about how past civilizations lived; their religious beliefs and practices; their business, financial, legal, and social relations; and what shape their aspirations assumed in terms of verbal creativity.
It could be argued that such a build-up of pressures causes students to think of their educational aspirations only in terms of gaining success in the examinations.
I think about aspirations less in terms of the end goal and more about the process.
In spite of this shortcoming, we found the partial aspiration technique to be a substantial improvement over the whole-cell aspiration technique in terms of operation time and the percentage of cells transferred successfully.
A summary comparing the two aspiration techniques in terms of these measured parameters is shown in Table 1.
The urgency of food, water, healthcare or shelter needs in Syria or eastern DRC displaces but does not diminish the longer-term hopes and aspirations of people in terms of wanting economic progress, a functioning healthcare system or political empowerment.
Their aspirations were valid in terms of their own experience; and, if they were casualties of history, they remain, condemned in their own lives, as casualties".
In Committed, Elizabeth Gilbert's sometimes irritatingly chirpy but also often wise study of marriage, she argues that we choose partners partly as an expression of our deepest aspirations for ourselves – in terms of education, appearance, achievement: "Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world".
There is much debate in the literature about the business entry motives and aspirations of immigrants, in terms of whether these motives are economic (to overcome disadvantage and/or improve their financial prospects), social (to improve their social status) or explained by cultural or historical factors (Basu, 1998).
"Modest theaters, modest budgets, modest aspirations, but big time in terms of human richness".
