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14 total sentences available.
Young people underestimate the huge aspiration that the learning of a foreign language demands and they begin to learn multiple at the same time, distributing their effort, which quickly leads to a lack of motivation when they take note of their poor results.
Source: tatoeba (5172733)
Disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people.
Source: tatoeba (5415853)
He studied day and night in aspiration to possibly become a lawyer.
Source: tatoeba (5675594)
That seems to me a rather pathetic aspiration.
Source: tatoeba (8657121)
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Closest matches include ambition, dream, inhalation, academic emulation, aim.
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