Sentence examples for old aspirations from inspiring English sources

But with the closing, old aspirations are fading fast.

In his 1851 short story "What Christmas Is As We Grow Older," Dickens makes the case that the holiday is the time to "bear witness" to our parallel lives, our "old aspirations," "old projects" and "old loves".

Yet, when Yashin and several other N.H.L. returnees took the ice for the local Lokomotiv squad recently before a capacity crowd of 10,000 ebullient hockey fanatics wrapped like candy canes in the team's red and white, those old aspirations seemed not to matter.

Nearly 500 years later and thanks to the safety net of welfarism, the old aspiration has finally been realised.

It harks back to one of music's oldest aspirations, to replicate the delights of the natural world.

Palm Beach, that bastion of old money and even older aspirations, with its glittering palaces and yachts moored in attendance, attracts as many people as it repels.

A Jewish state that embodies the noblest aspirations of prophetic Judaism, as articulated in Israel's Declaration of Independence, is the fulfillment of the century-old aspirations of spiritual Zionism.

This is an age-old aspiration, dating back to the 19th century, but in recent years new organisations have been created to give this idea coherence.

When he became Communist Party chief at the end of 2012, Xi Jinping expressed this 200-year-old aspiration in his "China has a dream" speech.

Dreams of unfashionable, politically incorrect, old American aspirations that our generation isn't supposed to believe in anymore.

Frank and April's plans would hardly merit a raised eyebrow; if anything, they'd seem somewhat timid, even bourgeois, in their Old World aspirations.