Mr. Abbott has got $12 million in the bank — this is a guy without his name on the ballot right now, with no declared aspirations — and he appears to be comfortably aligned with Republican voters.
The motion from the leadership at our conference welcomes the declared aspirations of Andrew Lansley's healthcare reforms, and then seeks to justify them with dodgy statistics that depend more on eating and smoking habits 20 years ago than any previous structural reform.
In 2008, Howard Jacobson declared his aspiration to write a novel without any word containing the letter "j".
Drawing support mostly from madrassas near Chittagong, a southern port city, it recently declared national aspirations.
If you had a dime for every show with declared Broadway aspirations, you could put on a full production of "Young Frankenstein" in your kitchen.
I can't think of a more alienating, transgressive choice for an entertainment venture that vehemently declares mainstream aspirations.
In 2001, a splinter group called the World Kumdo Association — kumdo is the Korean counterpart of kendo — was established in South Korea and declared its Olympic aspirations, along with its willingness to make extreme modifications, like use of electronic armor.
Mr. Obama also is expected to redress what some Israelis regard as a major affront in his speech to the Muslim world in 2009, when he declared that the aspirations for a Jewish homeland were principally rooted in the tragedy of the Holocaust.
But shortly after Edwards declared his White House aspirations, the footage all but disappeared from public view.
In China, however, Samsung will have to ward off ambitious competitors like Xiaomi, which is busy building up its brand cachet and plans to sell 15 million smartphones this year and Lenovo, which recently declared that it's their "aspiration" to overtake Samsung as China's top smartphone maker.
