The phrase "aspiring power" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a nation, organization, or individual that is seeking to increase their influence or status in a particular context, often in a geopolitical or economic sense.
Example: "The country has been recognized as an aspiring power in the region, striving to expand its influence through strategic partnerships."
Alternatives: "emerging power" or "rising power".
Senator Hillary Clinton has been burned twice lately by so-called bundlers — aspiring power brokers who harvest large amounts of smaller donations and bundle them into irresistibly giant packages.
As they have since 2008, a horde of aspiring power players will converge on New York City for the annual marathon of internet company presentations, the Digital Content NewFronts: YouTube, Vice, Hulu, Activision Blizzard, and old-media stalwarts like Playboy and the Economist trying to get in on the action.
It is exactly this fundamental misinterpretation (coupled no doubt with a contempt for the 10th amendment) and resulting worldview that allows him and so many other aspiring power brokers to become entirely unbounded as to what the federal government can get itself involved with.
Instead of trying to offset the advantages of a single, traditional adversary, the Pentagon faces challenges on multiple fronts, including large, technologically advanced nations such as Russia and China, smaller, aspiring powers such as North Korea, and independent non-state actors such as the Islamic State.
For example, the startup looks at the amount of college educated singles in each city before launching, which they aptly translated into a list of the best cities for aspiring power-couples.
Even so, in light of India's posturing, one may be forgiven for wondering if the nuclear powers disarmed, would aspiring powers fill the vacuum.
Nuclear bombs are useless weapons, playthings for the powerful or those aspiring to power.
Those in power want to stay there, while those aspiring to power are eager to claim it.
"Today, Brazil is an aspiring global power with regional interests and international responsibilities.
Why were people aspiring to power getting themselves into scrapes so frequently?
Its historical insularity is at odds with the cosmopolitanism that an interconnected world demands of any aspiring global power.
