Sentence examples for lacking in aspiration from inspiring English sources
Well, here at last is a final solution he never considered: put all poor people in distant dumping grounds where nobody wants to live because there is no work, then call them workless scroungers, lacking in aspiration for the children they have taken out of class to throw together in schools where nobody's parents work.
Why do our conservation groups appear to be so lacking in ambition and aspiration?
It is so lacking in any aspiration for American greatness, so dominated by the narrowest visions for our country and so ignorant of the fact that it was not tax cuts that made America great but our unique public-private partnerships across the generations.
6 However, the skills to perform diagnostic joint aspiration are often lacking in primary care, 9 10 where the majority of patients with gout are diagnosed and managed.
This one is often muttered by someone insecure in their own abilities, and lacking any aspiration to improve their lot in life.
Mrs Follett, 65, the millionaire wife of best-selling novelist Ken Follett, said many children lacked "aspiration" in their lives and "application" at school.
Hardly the type lacking for aspiration I would suggest.
Now, three academics have used a piece in the Lancet to damn these plans as "inconsequential" and accuse ministers of lacking "clear aspiration to reduce the impact of cheap, readily available and heavily marketed alcohol on individuals and society".
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.
Amanda Spielman, the chief inspector of schools in England, puts this down in part to white, working-class communities suffering the "full brunt of economic dislocation in recent years and, as a result, can lack the aspiration and drive seen in many migrant communities".
