aspiration
Example Sentences
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That collapse has erased hundreds of billions in market value from European luxury conglomerates and American beauty giants that bet heavily on Chinese middle-class aspiration.
From Barron's
"I'm pretty comfortable with the aspiration to be in a unique special relationship as long as we remember it needs to be created," he says.
From BBC
The U.S., she continued, should “support the aspirations of the Iranian people for a secular democracy.”
At 50, he finally gave up on his Olympic aspirations.
People-to-people ties, he argues, can only grow if India aligns its policy with the aspirations of Bangladeshis, not just the preferences of governments.
From BBC
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