Angola has only to look around the continent, to countries like Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Africa; they are all at peace after long periods of upheaval, and like Angola, all aspire to influence and power on the continent.
This was the persona that went into the two-album "Oral Fixation" series, which made her more famous still, and rich, and took her to the point where she could aspire to influence the public policies of an entire region.
Luce, the creator of Time, Life, Fortune and later of Sports Illustrated, was a media tycoon at a time when, as A. J. Liebling put it, freedom of the press belonged to the man who owned one (rather than, as now, to anyone with an Internet service provider), a time when a lone publisher could aspire to influence the course of world events.
But there is also a feeling among Pope Benedict's senior advisers that in rejecting intelligent design as it is understood in America they must not go too far in endorsing the idea that Darwinian evolution says all that needs to be, or can be, said about how the world came to be.The net result has been the emergence of two distinct camps among the Catholic pundits who aspire to influence the pope.
Certain political pressure groups, like terrorist organizations, might also be considered "political communities," in that they are associations of people with a political purpose and, indeed, many of them aspire to statehood or to influence the development of statehood in certain lands.
In addition to celebrating various authors, the event also aims to influence aspiring authors with its informative workshops and empowering panel discussions.
That was the decade in which Churchill and Roosevelt defended the free world, combined British and American talent to develop the nuclear bomb, and arranged the burden-passing that Macmillan later described as Britain becoming Greece to America's Rome ("We can at most aspire to civilize and occasionally to influence them").
But the Senate's main deficiency is that for someone who aspires to broad influence and the mantle of leadership, it is simply not the place to amass a portfolio of politically portable achievements.
The N.A.C., which tries to influence Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his social policies, is the conscience of the government and it aspires to be the halo.
In the months following the end of the war, Cilicia had also become a source of dispute between the British and French, who both aspired to establish influence in the region.
