Sentence examples for aspire not from inspiring English sources

Was I not raised to aspire not only to a doorman but private bathing facilities as well?

The musicians who performed at 60 clubs around the city, and during daily convention sessions at the Hilton New York, generally aspire not to conquer the Top 10 or to fill arenas, but to become more potent rumors.

America's brightest and best aspire not to govern Mesopotamia, but to manage MTV; not to rule Hejaz, but to run a hedge fund; not to be a C.B.E., or Commander of the British Empire, but to be a C.E.O.

They aspire not to disclose the timeless, but to discern the transient, to clasp the texture of experience — a passing moment, an instant's glimpse, a sensation as compressed and meticulously evoked as a haiku.

Too many African rulers still aspire, not perhaps to ties and jackets, but to Rolex watches and Mercedes cars.Yet, if Africa was a disappointment, at least in France Mr Dumont lived to see the Greens join the government in coalition with the Socialists.

But maybe it's the sport of tennis that's also helped to de-lace the cultural corset of the old gender binary, because when I think of the woman I want to be, it's Serena Williams's example to which I aspire, not Agnieszka Radwanska's.

He aspired not to make outsiders respectable but to destroy the complacency of insiders.

In short, "The Sound I Saw" aspires not to be about jazz but to be jazz.

And everything looked impeccable in his collection, as if he were aspiring not to ready-to-wear, but to couture.

This represents a marked deflation of the lofty ambitions that followed the disaster, when the world aspired not only to repair Haiti but to remake it completely.

From its inception it was clear that communal government aspired not merely to political independence but also to control of the contado.