Sentence examples for local aspirations from inspiring English sources

Still, local aspirations die hard.

They touched popular sensitivities and local aspirations, values, worldviews, and cosmologies.

Defenders of Mr. Chrétien's plan say it comes from Africa's leaders themselves and reflects local aspirations.

Britain does not emerge well: it sought to protect its interests with minimum cost and without thought to local aspirations.

The Belgian territories were then under Dutch rule, and the revolutionary overtones of Auber's opera, which depicts a peasant revolt in seventeenth-century Naples, became associated with local aspirations toward independence.

Such idiosyncratic arrangements, however much they satisfy local aspirations, were not welcomed by a committee of backbench Australian MPs, who decided that the island should be assimilated to free-market Australia, and its ethos of self-help and community service should be ended by direct rule from Canberra, 1,800km away.

The move comes three years on from the much-heralded Localism Act 2011, and yet there are repeated clashes between central diktat and local aspiration.

These have become an accepted local aspiration, and risk drowning out alternative visions for the future of these cities.

As a case study, we report the Israeli experience in developing a national plan relevant to local needs, aspirations, and means.

They can point out as is true that stirring Democratic victories like those of Gray Davis in the California governor's race, or Charles Schumer in the Senate race in New York, can be mostly attributed to local gripes and aspirations.

Qatar, the tiny Gulf nation that juts out into the Persian Gulf from the expanse of neighbouring Saudi Arabia, is a country of vast local and international aspirations.