Sentence examples for aspired merely from inspiring English sources

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They had aspired merely to secure a couple of the city's western neighborhoods, but they quickly reached the Tigris River, which snakes south through the middle of Mosul.

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Big firms no longer aspire merely to train competent managers.

(Even here a caveat is needed, however, since those FA theories that aspire merely to capture some values may not accept normative reduction as a general thesis).

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

It was his impulse, he added, "whenever I found myself alone, to remove my coat, rip off my tie, loosen my collar and roll up my sleeves -- a gesture aspiring not merely to comfort but, in a more symbolic sense, to freedom".

The former Abercrombie & Fitch building at the northwest corner of Madison Avenue and 45th Street, which once housed the store famous for outfitting big-game hunters and those who merely aspired to look like them, will soon be growing, both upward and laterally.

Much to the contrary, San Francisco State was praised by its accrediting agency for its commitment to social justice and civic engagement, representing "the gold standard" for an urban university, "not merely aspiring to be responsive to diversity but embracing it wholeheartedly as the intellectual and civic lifeblood of the university".

When we convey that mission, in plain terms, we achieve more than when we merely aspire to satisfy frameworks.

What the comfortable want, what even those of us who merely aspire to be a little less uncomfortable want, is an experience that feels authentic.

Ideally, he would like to set a target that the Bank actually has to hit, rather than, as now, merely aspire to.

Smiley, memorably incarnated first by Alec Guinness in the 1979 BBC series and now by Gary Oldman, emerges as a flawed philosopher-priest who merely aspires to limit the harm and pain that human weakness spreads.

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