aspired

Craig-Lewis was an 11-year veteran of the Philadelphia Fire Department, a position she had aspired to since grade school.

He had aspired to construct an epic figure after visiting the pyramids and sphinxes of Egypt in 1855.

I particularly aspired to be an obscure novelist, which sounds strange I suppose.

Raised from nothing, Harding aspired to greatness: she wanted to be the best female figure skater in the world.

She was active in the school newspaper and aspired to be a lawyer.

And, hence, a standing of Christian profession higher than has yet been attained to by any, has to be aspired at.

Indeed the grand end of the Church's continuance in the world, is aspired at by the efforts of all her true members.

In 1824 he practiced law and aspired to become a substitute judge.

Was it forgotten that the House of Austria had once aspired to universal dominion?

It aspired to rise to a knowledge of God as the supremest wisdom and grandest attainment of mortal man.