Sentence examples for aspiring to settle from inspiring English sources

It is known from the guild archives of several towns that a master aspiring to settle elsewhere had first to serve an obligatory period of one or two years in the workshop of a local master before he could be admitted to the guild.

Evidently Microsoft now aspires to settle in as the Sears of operating systems and the Buick of the office desktop.

Mary Leo, a romantic comedy author who once wrote for Harlequin but then found their doors closed to her, urged aspiring authors to "settle for more".

They're working better, but, again, we're kind of settling for mediocrity rather than aspiring to excellence.

They are blueprints aspiring to be buildings.

That sentence is a fair sample of Asaro's prose, which aspires to poetry but usually settles for a kind of muted bombast.

Of course, not everyone aspires to become Mr. Universe some of us settle for just being fit.

Marco Rubio recently said that the decision "is not settled law," and that he aspires "to fix it because we think it's wrong".

They aspire to become Americans, they said in phone interviews, but would settle for less if they could work and drive legally, and visit relatives outside the country.

Upending British political traditions, the battle lines are being redrawn under a coalition government led by Conservatives whose political fortunes once rested on those who had either settled comfortably into middle-class privilege, or aspired to do so.

Let us aspire to these kinds of businesses, and others that create value across stakeholders, rather than settling for value only to shareholders.