What is "aspiration"

Usage examples of "aspiration".

Her parents were instructed, via an English-speaking relative, to give her 250 milligrams of ampicillin twice a day, to clear up her aspiration pneumonia, and twenty milligrams of Dilantin elixir, an anticonvulsant, twice a day, to suppress any further grand mal seizures.

Against this tapestry of living light the jagged contours of the pyramids stood out in dark outline, and as any thoughtful individual might do, I mused upon the vanity of human aspiration and the brevity of human passions.

As is the case with all exoteric men, his political eyes saw a short way only, and his political aspirations were as limited.

I do, therefore, venture to say, that in embarking for Greece, he was not entirely influenced by such exoterical motives as the love of glory or the aspirations of heroism.

It was his mission to probe our moral ulcers to the roots and to raise moribund ideals from the dust, breathing his own vitality into them, till they rose before our eyes as living aspirations.

Sir Roderick Palle is the most ordinary of men with the most ordinary aspirations.

She suffered from pleural effusion, which, on aspiration, proved to be chyle.

We will need to move in with a framework for a market-style economy and a pluralistic political structure, but the Iraqis themselves must ultimately build their own system of government, choose their own leaders, and create their own economy consistent with their past, their cultural traditions, and their aspirations.

We will need to move in with a framework for a market-style economy and a pluralistic political structure, but the Iraqis themselves must ultimately build theirown system of government, choose their own leaders, and create theirown economy consistent with their past, their cultural traditions, and their aspirations.

Further, a negro delegate from Georgia portrayed the disaster which would overwhelm the political aspirations of his people if the Populist party, which alone had given them full fellowship, should surrender to the Democrats.

Kind: when it must take in something other than itself, its aspiration is the presentment of Matter to the incoming power.

My robotic aspirations have been repurposed toward a different world: the RFIDsphere.

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He understood their need for a scapegoat to take the blame for their sins, and he also understood their desires for someone better than themselves to represent their finest aspirations.

But all societies, all civilizations, all aspirations it seems must fail the unremitting tugs of shroudy time, finally, leaving only little bones, fossils, a shoe turned to stone maybe, a bone button in the sea perhaps, a jeweled memento of an old old love.