Sentence examples for having aspired from inspiring English sources

There, surreally, he was convicted by a Soviet tribunal of having aspired to be king of Ukraine no less than 30 years earlier.

Instead, he found himself confronting not only a terminal illness, but also a profound identity crisis: having aspired to be "the pastoral figure … I found myself the sheep, lost and confused".

Having aspired to a singing career since she was in her church choir in Mizpah when she was 8, she learned the business by herself and has no manager or agent.

Having aspired to be a novelist since he was in high school, Wiley learned about the St. Martin's competition a few years ago while trolling the Web.

Having aspired to become the de facto leader of the Middle East after the Arab Uprisings of 2011, Erdogan ended up at odds with nearly every regional player: Egypt, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Russia.

He has aspired, he has said, to a nonjudgmental neutrality.

Despite this training, Marshall had aspired to become a dentist.

He had aspired to one day be ambassador there.

Artists have aspired to simulate human life since ancient times.

I'd aspired to that goal, and I got the title that I had aspired to.

He, too, had aspired to write revelatory stories about the inner workings of the I.S.I.