Sentence examples for without aspiring from inspiring English sources

He excelled without aspiring to heroism — content, always, to accept a base on balls rather than risk humiliation by taking a cut at a low-percentage offering.

However, some stringers may simply be informed residents or specialists of a given region or topic and may contribute to news organizations as a side or secondary job without aspiring to a career in journalism.

"In a city so crowded with art galleries, not to mention lampposts," he said, "artistic expression can be conveyed in hundreds of places without aspiring presumptuously to the Metropolitan Museum of Art".

Especially in the United States, the denominational society par excellence, Christian denominations have lived side by side, without aspiring to encompass all believers in a territory, as Roman Catholic, Orthodox or many established national churches have historically done.

Feeling small is good if you can do so without aspiring to be big, you have a lot less to worry about.

Aigler opposed the move, saying: "You can't give athletic scholarships without aspiring to the sigma of professionalism.... Other schools have tried it, and if the practice enjoys widespread continuance, it will prove the doom of collegiate sport".

In 1887 he was elected president of the republic without actively aspiring to the office.

Chris Nash is one of those players who could be accused of playing county cricket without ever aspiring to international honours, but he's exactly the sort of resourceful cricketer that I, and many fans of the domestic game, enjoy.

Sometimes, as a special treat, he would turn over the page of the paper and we would gaze respectfully together at the unapproachable intellectual heights of what was then signed "Torquemada", in the way that two simple ramblers might look at the Matterhorn without ever aspiring to climb it.

Some midshipmen were older men, and while most were officer candidates who failed to pass the lieutenant examination or were passed over for promotion, some members of the original rating served, as late as 1822, alongside apprentice officers without themselves aspiring to a commission.

Somewhere beneath all this pain and suffering, though, the true heart of Gaza beats on: fishermen still dream of being able to take their boats out without being torpedoed; aspiring actors fantasise about bringing back an Oscar; a student of mine told me in class the other day that she plans to win Miss World.