aspirational

“This is not what you call aspirational behavior by a main character.”

Mike Bonifer: McChrystal Method

“In Baghdad, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States and Iraq have agreed to what she called aspirational timetables.”

CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2008

“Officials said they found what they call "aspirational" items - things al-Qaida operatives were interested in trying to make happen.”

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“The American fetishization of work as an ideal removes it from practical reality every time it is described as aspirational.”

Simon & Schuster: MY EMPIRE OF DIRT

“The APEC Leaders agreed towork to achieve a common understanding on a long-term aspirational global emissions reduction goal.”

Speech at the Major Economies Meeting

“As part of this decision, Australia will set a long term aspirational goal for reducing national greenhouse gas emissions in 2008.”

Speech at the Major Economies Meeting

“Australia would like to see the APEC Leaders agree for the first time that a new international agreement should include an agreed long-term aspirational goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”

Speech: Future Challenges Facing APEC and the Asia-Pacific Region

“The APEC Leaders agreed to work to achieve a common understanding on a long-term aspirational global emissions reduction goal.”

Speech: High-Level Event on Climate Change

“Her own personal taste is at the opposite end of the spectrum, but it too could be called aspirational—or by its more old-fashioned names, hung with Didionesque class opprobrium: arriviste or nouveau riche.”

Simon & Schuster: I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen