Sentence examples for basic aspirations from inspiring English sources

But local Tibetans seethe at China's refusal to recognize their most basic aspirations.

"It is presumptuous and insulting to suggest that a whole region of the world, or the one-fifth of humanity that is Muslim, is somehow untouched by the most basic aspirations of life," he said.

After two weeks of recalibrated messages and efforts to keep up with a rapidly evolving situation, the Obama administration is still trying to balance support for some of the basic aspirations for change in Egypt with its concern that the pro-democracy movement could be "hijacked," as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton put it, if change were to come too quickly.

We all know someone who is openly gay or lesbian, and almost all of us share the same basic aspirations: a safe town and an affordable home to live in; a good job to provide us and our families with economic security; good schools for our children; quality health care; and, perhaps most importantly, someone to love and share our lives with.

I believe that basic aspiration to run away and desire to escape is something everyone, young or old, can relate to".

To score 100 runs — called a century in the game's jargon — in a single innings is a cricketer's most basic aspiration.

"We just want to be able to live like human beings": It sounds like he was quoting a young woman who spoke to the Guardian newspaper over the weekend, on the phone from "her barricaded home on the outskirts of Benghazi," and used those words (others may have, too; as Obama said, it is the most basic aspiration).

Focused on ultra-affluent greens, the media, Wall Street and the public sector, gentry liberalism generally gives short shrift to upward mobility, the basic aspiration of the middle class.

These are the basic political aspirations of the Tamil people.

It is the most basic of aspirations that is driving this change.

There are many aspects to this bill to highlight: reducing maternal mortality, banning small weapons and arms trading, and ensuring basic universal aspirations for peace.