Reflecting on her own experience under house arrest in Burma, she explores the universal human aspiration to be free and the spirit which drives people to dissent.

The latter is often portrayed as an inevitable, universal aspiration, despite the fact that more women than ever are not having children.

Liberal democracy is one of the byproducts of this modernization process, something that becomes a universal aspiration only in the course of historical time.

The desire for free choice and autonomy is a universal human aspiration, but it is not top priority when people grow up feeling that survival is uncertain.

Modernists saw the "Kalevala" culture as a hindrance to the universal aspirations of their art.

Different cultures nurture different political values, but over the centuries the world has evolved international codes that express universal aspirations.

The great strides that it has made in the past decade and a half testify to the universal human aspiration to live in freedom.

Before modern science, representation was naturally contingent and the universal aspirations of science (metaphysics) were bound to the nature of the epistemological ground (arché).

To support the universal aspiration of families and their dependents to acquire quality education at a minimal cost.

For now, they are more concerned with what seems to be a universal aspiration in the tunnel: getting enough money to move into an apartment.