Under his weak chairmanship, the commission, most of whose members lost interest in its arcane disputes and stopped attending, fell under the influence of a politically correct faction that vigorously transformed an ill-conceived aspiration into an electoral disaster.
At the far eastern end of the M104 bus route is the United Nations: another country, another state of mind, housed in a towering blue-green tourist attraction that symbolizes aspirations conceived in another time.
Blair and Brown may have rowed, but they rowed themselves to three general election victories, rebuilt our public services, put themselves on the side of aspiration, boosted equality, and conceived a new global identity for Britain.
Besides that, my analysis cannot do justice to the diversity in respondents' demographic and socio-economic backgrounds, and to the socio-cultural variation in their ways of conceiving and articulating aspirations.
At the same time, however, the life of the intellect was conceived as being driven by a passionate aspiration for what was eternal and universal.
They may have already envisioned the path to their dream job or conceived of a business that they'd love to found and develop, but student debts or the need for startup funding dampen their aspirations.
In the meantime, the jailer's daughter has conceived a passion for Palamon, whose princeliness makes her aspirations hopeless, painful and distressingly consequential.
For women, "there were no alternative lifestyles and aspirations either offered or considered — no inkling that Romano-Grecian women ever conceived of a world different from the one they were born into".
They reflected on their existence and the conditions thereof; conceived of and put into practice ways to endure without succumbing, ways to struggle against enslavement and the curtailment otherwise of their lives and aspiration; and conceived and acted on ways to escape.
