The phrase "declared aspirations" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to ambitions or goals that someone has loudly and clearly expressed. For example, "The candidate for mayor declared her aspirations for the city, including increasing funding for public parks."
But anyone who has watched Belgian TV's De Slimste Mens Ter Wereld will quickly realise that the declared aspiration is very much tongue-in-cheek.
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.
In 2008, Howard Jacobson declared his aspiration to write a novel without any word containing the letter "j".
By pledging allegiance to one of the three major-league baseball teams then playing in New York, each of which represented an aspect of the city's personality, we could declare our aspirations, invent ourselves -- at the least disguise our fears.
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.
Respondents' declared or implicit aspirations are assumed, here, as a gateway into their "engagement with the future" (Adam & Groves, 2007), which migration itself epitomizes.
