Sentence examples for which it aspired from inspiring English sources

The intrusion of the Putin personality cult into ever more aspects of public life is a demonstration that Russia is turning its back on a period during which it aspired to the trappings of a modern European state.The notion of a personality cult in Russia has its roots in the tsars, who were seen as having received a mandate from God.

Indeed, I wondered if I was observing the conceptual antecedent of the Breadman's fellowship, the original to which it aspired.

"I think Cuba has negotiated an agreement along the lines of which it aspired.

Some of its NATO allies and the European Union, which it aspires to join, have also expressed concern.

But Latvia is a special case for many reasons, including its desire to become much closer with the euro zone, which it aspires to join.

(914) 923-3100 GOOD ATMOSPHERE -- The drab dining room falls short of the elegance to which it aspires.

The tone means to be wise and wry, but the play never achieves the seriousness to which it aspires.

Compared with the film versions of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel "The Secret Garden," to which it aspires to be a sequel of sorts, it misses the point.

This is acting of the highest order in a play that, deriving from the Royal Court in 1973, struggles to achieve the global significance to which it aspires.

The reader must supply the labor -- and the good will -- required to bring his writing to the level of fullness to which it aspires.

While it may not yet have achieved the Olympian heights to which it aspires, Greek wine has unquestionably embraced modern tastes, with refreshing whites and fine reds produced from expressive indigenous grape varieties such as xinomavro, agiorgitiko, liatiko and mavrotragano.