noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
satisfy sb's aspirations (= provide the things that someone hopes to get )
▪
The new government failed to satisfy the aspirations of the people.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
▪
While other seagulls fly in order to catch food, he has higher aspirations .
legitimate
▪
I entirely reject it because I want to be able to help my constituents to achieve their natural and legitimate aspirations .
▪
We aim to confront the legitimate fears and aspirations of both communities.
▪
The brazen response of some was to smirk, for beating the system-any system-was a legitimate aspiration .
national
▪
There was no sympathy with the national aspirations of the inhabitants.
▪
The railway none the less became the symbol of progress without which national aspirations had no hope of achievement.
political
▪
Dulles did more than make the customary recommendations that the policies of the colonial powers keep abreast of local political aspirations .
▪
Though these institutions may have fundamentally disagreed on tactics, both served as catalysts for black political and economic aspirations .
▪
The underclass has therefore become separated, both in terms of income, life chances and political aspirations .
▪
It is also the most important measure of political alienation and aspiration .
▪
She had three husbands, the first with political aspirations whom the Democrats dumped as soon as she did.
social
▪
The stories in these comics reflected the social attitudes and aspirations of the times.
▪
Changing economic circumstances and social aspirations have led to increased interest in rural life and in the particular problems facing rural people.
■ NOUN
career
▪
Your future and present career aspirations should very clearly match your individual skills package-see later chapters for more about this.
▪
Youth has few models on which to base career aspirations in the social servIces.
▪
Giving your children a first-hand look at your work can have a significant impact on their career aspirations .
■ VERB
achieve
▪
However, soon after graduating at Oxford, Hunt had achieved a long-held aspiration upon his ordination at Winchester in 1878.
▪
How many existing people must learn new skills and behaviors for the initiative to achieve its desired performance aspirations ?
reflect
▪
They have explored the extent to which they reflected mass aspirations and their role in the political outcome of the revolution.
satisfy
▪
If views are enough to satisfy watery aspirations , the Somerset coastline should be on your list.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Did Cuomo have presidential aspirations?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
But then its aspirations all went horribly wrong.
▪
Charming and enthusiastic, Crowhurst's life up to the voyage had been defined by crushed aspirations.
▪
I had written a learned book, Architrave and Archetype, a thesis linking human aspiration with human-designed structures, cathedrals in particular.
▪
It is through other black kids that some aspirations are fostered and others snuffed out by stories of racialism.
▪
Many who vigorously disparaged his accomplishment came to share his aspiration ...
▪
Such criteria have, therefore, to be general and highly flexible allowing for sensitivity to people's aspirations.
▪
Today its atmosphere is more convivial, its aspirations more leisurely.
▪
We can see in this Nietzsche's aspirations towards a total philosophy of life.