Sentence examples for modest aspiration from inspiring English sources

On the great continuum of ecological engagement, this is a modest aspiration.

In a similar spirit Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, has long entertained the modest aspiration of making British monetary policy boring.

Her family's story of steady self-improvement through hard work and modest aspiration underpins her attraction to the principles of so-called Blue Labour: opposed to over-reliance on the welfare state, business-friendly and in favour of decentralising power.

It was founded by the Little Landers, the cooperative agriculture movement of the early twentieth century that believed in the modest aspiration of "a little land and a living".

All this came on the heels of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's oft-repeated statement during his round of Sunday talk-show interviews that the military's goal is to achieve "sustainable quiet" for the people of Israel — a relatively modest aspiration compared to the war rumblings coming from some members of his coalition.

Sitting in the large house he built on a $95,000 plot of land in airy western Kabul and playing with his 5-year-old daughter, he is a member of a young Afghan generation whose eyes burn with modest aspiration for what would be by outside standards an ordinary life — access to electricity, schools for his son and daughter, rule of law, security.

"Modest theaters, modest budgets, modest aspirations, but big time in terms of human richness".

"We came here with modest aspirations, to work hard and educate my daughters," said Mr Gillard, 81.

It was an ensemble meant to announce its own modest aspirations.

When Mr. D'Errico became president, he decided he was not satisfied with the modest aspirations of his predecessor.

Seventy per cent of the population considered itself working-class and it now voiced modest aspirations with hugely radical potential.