The motion from the leadership at our conference welcomes the declared aspirations of Andrew Lansley's healthcare reforms, and then seeks to justify them with dodgy statistics that depend more on eating and smoking habits 20 years ago than any previous structural reform.
Mr. Abbott has got $12 million in the bank — this is a guy without his name on the ballot right now, with no declared aspirations — and he appears to be comfortably aligned with Republican voters.
In 2008, Howard Jacobson declared his aspiration to write a novel without any word containing the letter "j".
Drawing support mostly from madrassas near Chittagong, a southern port city, it recently declared national aspirations.
If you had a dime for every show with declared Broadway aspirations, you could put on a full production of "Young Frankenstein" in your kitchen.
Mr. Obama also is expected to redress what some Israelis regard as a major affront in his speech to the Muslim world in 2009, when he declared that the aspirations for a Jewish homeland were principally rooted in the tragedy of the Holocaust.
They have--the strikes have declared, have explained, the position or the complaints, the malaise, the--you can say even the aspirations, the hopes, of several segments of the Egyptian society.
By pledging allegiance to one of the three major-league baseball teams then playing in New York, each of which represented an aspect of the city's personality, we could declare our aspirations, invent ourselves -- at the least disguise our fears.
But shortly after Edwards declared his White House aspirations, the footage all but disappeared from public view.
I can't think of a more alienating, transgressive choice for an entertainment venture that vehemently declares mainstream aspirations.
