Sentence examples for blocked aspiration from inspiring English sources

But he wrote best, I think, about the gray world of blocked aspiration that his parents inhabited in the barely middle-­class town of Shillington, Pa., where his mother was an unpublished writer and his father a schoolteacher at a time when teachers were "well below machinists and full-fashioned knitters in the scale of prestige".

Marching through the city on May 31st, some of the 8,000 demonstrators chanted: "Tsang doesn't represent me .The greatest frustration of post-handover Hong Kong is perhaps its blocked political aspirations.

While Moscow has not directly blocked EU aspirations for Serbia, Montenegro, as well as Republika Srpska, it has actively sought to deter NATO membership for these Orthodox Christian majority states/regions.

Of course, the Liberal Democrats were able to block that aspiration in coalition.

This illegal structure acts as a prison wall, blocking the aspiration of all Palestinians to freedom and self-determination".

Mr. McCain also favors blocking Russian aspirations to join the World Trade Organization.

We will work for an end to austerity, for equal pay, more and better jobs and to end the barriers that still block the aspirations of too many women in Scotland and across the UK".

To his credit, President Lula has not reversed these changes, as many feared he might.The clash between a growing middle class and a government that often seems to be blocking its aspirations is creating a rather American story about the determined little guy being constantly pulled back by the dead hand of bureaucracy.

Daw Suu is 69 and seemingly in excellent health, but her political aspirations remain blocked by an uncompromising military.

While the bloc wants to avoid disappointing Belgrade's European aspirations, progress is blocked by Serbia's failure to arrest Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect.

In blocking any Palestinian aspirations at the UN, America is helping extremists on both sides.