Sentence examples for aspiring in from inspiring English sources

But that doesn't mean that, as Kate Winslet bakes yet another pie, I won't sometimes wonder if those five hours might be more profitably spent aspiring in a different direction: exercising, maybe, or reading a book or just watching 10 episodes of the hilarious (and not at all contemplative) cartoon "Bob's Burgers".

N.Y.U. would be forward-thinking, Clintonesque in the breadth and voraciousness of its embrace and eager to capitalize on its downtown urbanity, aspiring, in Sexton's words, to be "the world's first global university in the world's first truly global city -- the intellectual epicenter of the world's epicenter".

The word "aspiring" in front of all three labels.

Louise and her husband Heinrich, also a tailor, were conventional middle class Americans, aspiring in the turbulent world of the Gilded Age to "keep up" by providing a home with material comforts and other signs of respectability.

And they would be there, exercising their humanity, at the invitation of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, which has been around for 25 years and has grown into one of the most significant events of its kind in the world: a meeting ground for the great, the good and the aspiring in pursuit of all things new.

"I've never aspired in the way people are supposed to aspire.

Trying to get noticed they played open-mike nights in New York City and aspired, in vain, to move up to the small clubs on the Lower East Side.

On Herbert's latest album, "Bodily Functions" (Soundslike/K7), his songs aspire, in both music and lyrics, to the sophistication of pop standards.

Its statement on Wednesday expressed "utmost regret" for actions that "fell well short of the standards to which Barclays aspires in the conduct of its business".

At the London Olympics, 58 gold medalists were wearing Nike branded garments; their achievements epitomised the standards to which the company aspires in all facets of its operation.

In volunteering four hours a week at a nonprofit employment service called Jubilee Jobs, Mr. Hisle aspired to more than doing good; he aspired, in the spirit of the season, to approach an understanding of Jesus' mission and sacrifice.