Sentence examples for mere aspiration from inspiring English sources

But this is another mere aspiration.

Bozon suggests that integration is no mere aspiration but an inescapable fact — albeit one that is distorted by politicians, police officers, and criminals alike.

"Having Arab women in senior management shows the younger generation that this is no longer a mere aspiration or exception, but has become a standard in the work force," said Ms. Hoteit.

But they cautioned that the Treasury would have to commit substantially more funds if the industry was to gradually fill the energy gap, and warned that the government's decision to turn its target of 20% of power from renewables by 2020 into a mere "aspiration" would deter investment by the City.

A recent eruption, in blogs and beyond, was provoked by two sensitive issues: first, the affirmation that the Tories were likely not to reverse the new 45% rate of income tax for earnings over £150,000, due to take effect in 2011; then the blurted remark from Ken Clarke, the shadow business secretary, that the inheritance-tax cut was a mere "aspiration".

(America, Canada, Japan, Russia, China and New Zealand have all won prizes America winning a special Fossil of the 21st Century award after its head negotiator described the effort to limit warming to two degrees as a mere aspiration).This green action has a lot going for it.

These goals should go beyond mere aspirations to clarify a company's dual purpose for employees, customers, suppliers, investors, and regulators.

Given these systemic problems, some activists want the summit to frame the UN goals not as mere aspirations but as human rights anchored by legislation, as a way of holding governments to account.

It became a project to assist the functioning of the economy even further; a project in which basic universal rights have been reduced to mere aspirations and - as Mr Bruton said - postponed to some indeterminate date in the future; a project that limits the Eastern European countries' involvement in Europe to the role of auxiliary policemen in the fight against organized crime.

Give me a slightly chill wind and the merest aspiration of auburn leaves and the dormant dandy within me returns gleefully.

There is interestingly little, in the ways in which interviewees retell their earlier migrant experience, of aspirations as mere "dreams of fantasy" out of touch with reality.