Sentence examples for lack aspiration from inspiring English sources

But again, what makes white working-class people more likely to lack aspiration?

Young people from more deprived backgrounds do not lack aspiration, but rather knowledge of the routes to realise it.

Black students do not lack aspiration, but the opportunity to get into the most prestigious universities, Berkeley argued.

The problem, as Cameron told us last year, is that young working-class people and ethnic minorities lack "aspiration".

It is unfair on them to say they lack aspiration – the evidence is that they have conventional aspirations for decent jobs, but the unusual English and Welsh education system has been tilted against them.

Not that the Bennetts lacked aspiration: "common" was his mother's deadliest putdown.

Mrs Follett, 65, the millionaire wife of best-selling novelist Ken Follett, said many children lacked "aspiration" in their lives and "application" at school.

Of course it's too easy to blame the parents of children who fail at school for lacking aspiration or failing to read to them.

In an upbeat speech peppered with swipes at David Cameron and George Osborne for being out touch and lacking aspiration for the country, Mr Miliband repeatedly used the phrase "We're Britain, we're better than this" to cheers and applause from Labour activists.

The next generation certainly isn't lacking aspirations to be the next Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg.

The terms that were bandied about by many of the respondents no matter their background was that the poor were "unmotivated," "lacked aspirations to get ahead," and "didn't work hard enough".