Given his theme - the collision between human aspirations and the vast, chaotic forces of nature - these stories are awfully tidy.

Furthermore, there is an emerging tension between professional aspirations and managerial imperatives.

Whether negotiation can bridge the gap between black aspirations and white desire for assurances about the future is not so clear.

The novel of manners often shows a conflict between individual aspirations or desires and the accepted social codes of behaviour.

They found a link between low aspirations and the magnetism of gang culture.

Like the Caithréim, it shows the gap between aspirations and political realities.

Chicago then and after exhibited the tension between "horizontal ideals and vertical aspirations."

Still other readers see Faustus torn between superhuman aspirations and very human limitations.

"The gap between aspirations and possibilities-I think that gap has widened incredibly in the last fifteen years," she said.

Increasing urbanization heightened public awareness of the gap between social aspirations and reality of the young colony.