"The Islamic nation which sent you the New York and Washington brigades has taken the firm decision to send you successive brigades to sow death and aspire to paradise."

Today more nations can aspire to nuclear status, and the number of potential aspirants will grow in the future as the price of building these weapons drops further.

If a nation cannot aspire to a higher moral standard than its killers, it can only be labeled as barbaric.

The Universal Declaration was not a binding treaty, only a "standard of achievement" to which nations should aspire.

Batsiua stated: "Had the referendum received the required support, the constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms of the people of Nauru would have been something that all nations of the world might have aspired to.

No other nation possesses, or aspires to, anything like the reach of American armed forces.

Many nations now share our love of liberty and aspire to the ordered progress of democracy.

Michael Collins, the republican leader who had led the Irish negotiating team, argued that the treaty gave "not the ultimate freedom that all nations aspire and develop, but the freedom to achieve freedom".

Pro-Treaty forces, led by Michael Collins, argued that the Treaty gave "not the ultimate freedom that all nations aspire to and develop, but the freedom to achieve it".

As the 20th century entered its final third, it was already apparent to chess historians and enthusiasts that the USSR had raised standards to a level that other nations could only aspire to.