What is "aspirations"

Usage examples of "aspirations".

Saddam assumed, perhaps only briefly, that the United States would continue to condone his pursuit of a wide range of weapons of mass destruction and his aspirations to become the dominant power in the Persian Gulf region.

In addition, Saddam was looking for greater glory and resources for Iraq, to realize his aspirations to dominate the Gulf region and make himself the leader of the Arab world.

Once or twice he stopped and bent down, ascertaining which kind it was, living its little life down there, then passed on in that mood of stammering thought which besets men of middle age who walk at night--a mood caught between memory of aspirations spun and over, and vision of aspirations that refuse to take shape.

She denies her wishes, hopes, dreams, aspirations, sexual needs, psychological needs, material needs, and much else besides.

I could not assimilate the string of miracles: the coincidence of remeeting her, her apparent forgiveness of my crime against her person and her aspirations, her absolute agelessness.

Hopes and aspirations of each new age lost under the weight of human frailties and plain bloody-mindedness.