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It seems to have eluded Wolf that ancient Chinese women might have aspired to something better than life as a concubine.

In truth, I aspired to be a businessman. And not the type that merely sold things for the sake of money, but sold inspiration.

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night.

Second, she had always aspired to be a naturalist, or maybe a journalist, but the word "scientist" hadn't figured in her dreaming.

Later, he told me he had been a missionary in Tientsinbefore he "had aspired to become a Sinologist. "

People who knew Obama in the early 1990s said he made it clear that he aspired to run for public office.

For instance, I worked with one woman who, as a child, aspired to be a painter, but her parents told her she lacked artistic talent.

As a kid, you aspired to be a doctor, astronaut or princess. But as you get older, the innocent "What do you want to be when you grow up? "

A generation ago young people aspired to become lawyers and doctors. Now they yearn to be the next Oscar winner or celebrity pop star.

Prior to joining the industry, I aspired to be a pre-school teacher and was already attending school to become one.

To see her once again; he still aspired to this, but he no longer expected it.

The fame to which he aspired was quite beyond his reach.

Meanwhile, Dick aspired to be an Officer in the Marines and I fully supported his ambitions.

He aspired to save for a deposit on a roomy apartment for him and his child, who was living with his parents.

Jenny aspired to be a stardom when she was a little girl .

He had always one or two fellows with him, but never aspired to the command of above three or four.

For years India has attempted to enhance its global profile and leverage and aspired to be a global power by developing military strength.

What, I asked her, did she do if the long-only managers aspired to run hedge funds instead?

For centuries people have aspired to understand and control the functions of the mind and brain.

Ramadan was an aspired human that came to earth in search of something he could not find anywhere else.

He aspired to be the greatest transfusionist and acquired the nickname of Rama the Great as a result.

As a model , Marilyn Monroe always aspired to any acting career .

The fame to which Mr Hastings aspired was quite beyond his reach.

Born into a lower caste, Poggle bucked the strict societal structure of the Geonosians and aspired to leadership.

It was not that to which my heart aspired.

That LSE aspired to turn Seif towards democracy is not in dispute.

Yet in recent years graduates have rarely aspired to such a grubby job as teaching.

Millions played the lotteries or aspired to what they viewed on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" .

News, like education, aspired to be as interesting as possible but to have an uplifting civic intent.

Some Apple store employees, who aspired to move to a corporate position, say they left when they realized that such opportunities were rare.

Steve always aspired to make beautiful later. He was willing to be misunderstood.

But under its ambitious chairman, Chen Yuan, it has long aspired to do deals on the international stage.

He was born in 1946 in a Chicago suburb and had aspired to be a forest ranger, but ended up at Dartmouth and Harvard.

For Japan, which only two decades ago aspired to be number one, the slip to third place is a gloomy milestone.

In the 1980s the four great things to which the Chinese aspired were the refrigerator , television, tape recorder and electric fan .

He aspired to be a painter, but Gertrude Stein suggested he drop the brushes.

These guys are passionate about what they do, but none of them aspired to the careers they now enjoy.

Mr King once aspired to making central banking boring; John Maynard Keynes hoped economists might become humble technicians, like dentists.

She aspired to read good books and be friends with intellectuals, even going so far as to marry one.

His prime minister, Ruud Lubbers, aspired to the presidency of the European Commission.

On entering public life, disraeli aspired to be both scholar and orator.

Apparently, they felt if Best wasn't good enough for the recording sessions, he wasn't good enough for what they aspired to become.

Nevertheless the tiny island, with a population of just 80, 000, has long-aspired to become a leading space jurisdiction.

I aspired to them partly because I was ambitious and partly because I now saw my hobby as an unsatisfactory thing if it went no further.

But you still aspired to become a fashion designer after you finished your undergraduate course?

Al Qaeda and other terror groups have long aspired to blow up commuter trains and subways in the U. S.

Rather as Romans aspired to Greek virtues, the new Barbarian aristocracy aspired to live like Romans.

I've had those books for years. They represent the person I once aspired to be.

Let us brought up their hands and work together, everyone aspired to build a socialist harmonious society!

There were three or four others who also aspired to climb the political or spiritual ladder of recognition or humility.

As with the venus and infrastructure, the opening ceremony aspired to be the biggest and the best to date.

This research is aspired to lower the vagueness of WOM definition and upgrade the quality of future research.

The political and economic system that had once aspired to global domination was reduced to dust.

I can't say I aspired to be a columnist, however.

But for the vast majority ofwomen who aspired to respectable life, it was essential.

He had aspired so much for their respect, to become assimilated with them.

He aspired to anything grander than Moscow State University.

My parents were teachers, so I took my education very seriously and aspired to become a lawyer.

A young man who aspired to the study of law once wrote Lincoln for advice.

Then 2Wire, a Silicon Valley internet software firm it had aspired to buy, went to Pace of the UK instead.

He aspired to be their next leader.

I awoke at 5 a. m. on Saturdays to prepare for the mad rush of customers, many of whom were the families I aspired to emulate.

Steve always aspired to make beautiful later.

For another, they aspired, like their President, to the world of ideas as well as to the world of power.

Learning how to deliver services to the world's poorest consumers is not what MBA students aspired to.

She aspired to become the city's first woman mayor.

Art has often aspired to universal values.

I aspired to have a relationship just like theirs.

The boy aspired to become an engineer.

This is a level of responsibility few people have aspired to before they decide to become traders.

My father never aspired to the job of managing director, and was very surprised when it was offered to him.

Right at Bruce Lee aspired to finish Game of Death, on July 20, 1973, he died of medical allergy in Hong Kong at the age of 32.

Ever since the Shanghai Stock Exchange was founded in 1990, the city has aspired to supplant Hong Kong as China's dominant capital market.

I don't want what my parents aspired for, which was job security and a house in the suburbs.

In the pride of his young ambition he had aspired to be a steamboat mate;

Aspired Values in Landscape Water-colour Paintings of the Northern School

When i was a child, I aspired to be a knowledgeble and worthy person