Sentences with phrase «cap on aspiration»

When more details of the new exam were leaked at the weekend, Labour said it supported more rigorous exams but only if they do not act as a cap on aspiration.

That would be as morally reprehensible as failing to create better GCSEs; and it would in effect put a cap on aspiration for large sections of the community.

Above all, as Bryan Gould, later a hero of the left, put it after Labour lost the 1992 election, the plan was seen as a «cap on aspirations».

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As a call to action, it is quixotic: its aspiration of a 1.5 °C cap on global warming seems almost totally unachievable (see «Paris climate deal is agreed — but is it really good enough?

Other works play on the association of basketball and young black men, such as drawings made by repeatedly bouncing a dirty basketball on huge sheets of clean white paper set on the floor; a series of larger - than - life basketball hoops, meticulously decorated with bottle caps, evoking Islamic mosaic and design; and Higher Goals (1986), where an ordinary basketball hoop, net, and backboard are set on a three - story high pole - commenting on the almost impossible aspirations of sports stardom as a way out of the ghetto.

Action on climate change is required across all countries, and it need not cap the aspirations for growth of rich or poor countries.