How To Use Ambition In A Sentence

Our ambition is to build a prosperous, inclusive and outward-looking country. Times, Sunday Times
The US had once looked upon Japanese ambitions with a level of sympathy, even indulgence.
Golub was an odd man out, one of those who kept alive certain ambitions scuttled by the artists who followed Abstract Expressionism.
She even has ambitions to return to college and major in interior design and business.
She has the ambition and talent to make something of herself.

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Even among the veterans, there is no consensus: is it an economic area or something much greater with supra-national ambition? Times, Sunday Times
It was a responsible situation he felt for a boy of thirteen, and he meant to do his very best to keep it now that he had been lucky enough to get it; in the far-off future, too, he saw himself no longer the van-boy, but in the proud position now occupied by Joshua as driver, and this he considered, though a lofty, was by no means an unreasonable ambition. Our Frank and other stories
This could provide funds for each son and so fulfil one of his personal ambitions. Times, Sunday Times
She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.
A rare total eclipse of the moon will make your emotions a useful bit tougher and ambitions stronger. The Sun
Tomorrow night they will headline the venue - and take another step towards achieving their ambitions.
Ambition never dies until there is no way out.
It also has ambitions to broaden its product range and expand geographically. Times, Sunday Times
Negotiations will be preceded by what the leaders called a "scoping exercise" to ensure that both side share the same goals and level of ambition for the negotiations. The Seattle Times
Certainly, it is a masterclass in grand ambition thwarted. Times, Sunday Times
** Ariftotle, "fays Lord Bacon, * 'thought, like the Ottoman princes, cfaat fee cottid not reign fecure, unleis he. deilroyed all his brethren; *' nor was his Hterary ambition more exclufive than exorbitant* The Monthly Review
Its images tumble, proliferate and cross-hatch; they are extravagant and loopy and defiantly enormous in their ambition, making everything else look petty and piddling.
Light entertainment is amusement without apology or ambition. Times, Sunday Times
The council claimed its ambition to support the results of the scheme financially could not be achieved unless more than 120 employees were made redundant.
It is in Latin elegiac verse, and as being directed against ambition and discontent may be compared with the first satire of Horace. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
The project successfully integrates ecological ambitions with the design of architectural and sculptural elements.
A chance to fulfil your top ambition may come at an awkward time, but you'll make the most of it. The Sun
But his ambition had its limits.
Neither side show ambition as the dismal opening round hits rock bottom. Times, Sunday Times
He fulfilled a long-held ambition to take the company upmarket.
Their ambition to succeed seems to be matched only by their hard-headed realism about selling and how to do it.
It is a sumptuous and intelligent film about love and thwarted ambition. Times, Sunday Times
The people who live here are belittled with irony and satire for their neat ambitions and their careful pleasures. Times, Sunday Times
Your poverty of ambition is breathtaking. Times, Sunday Times
You could achieve your greatest ambition, Mikhail - space, the stars.
His ambition for approbation sets bounds and limits to his ambition, so to speak.
The development of western civilization is predicated on the ambition to achieve mastery over nature and to manipulate it unrestrictedly.
The Adventures of Pinocchio is the story of a wooden marionette whose greatest ambition is to become a real boy. Archive 2007-07-01
He made no secret of his ambition .
Most writers harbour a modest ambition for their work to live on after their deaths. Times, Sunday Times
In this light, George W. Bush’s mendacity is not different in kind but in ambition from that of other presidents. Letters to the Editor
What he has brought is a sense of urgency and ambition that has helped maintain a sharp focus.
On the other hand, it would be surprising if they had equal levels of ambition.
His ambition to become a pilot was thwarted by poor eyesight.
Curiously, her mother never saw it either and died at a ripe old age with that particular ambition unfulfilled.
Every step which led him to the summit of power was prefaced by what he called seeking the Lord; that is, attending sermons and prayers, by which the suborned performers of those profane and solemn farces prepared their congregations to desire what their employers had previously determined to do; thus giving an air of divine inspiration to the projects of fraud, murder, and ambition. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
Greed and ambition composed his personality
Some of these tools: the ambition, the fixation on data, the subsequent doubt about what to do with that data taken on dexterously by Justin McGuirk, and the photographs. Todd Reisz: Making Sense of the City
She was goaded on by fierce ambition.
Every time you talk about leadership ambitions, you can rest assured there’s a chainsaw behind you cutting you as you speak, so I’ll just taihoa.
Ambition burned within her.
In 1898 he started a County Fair to spur the ambition of the Negro farmers of the county. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization
I found a quote on Anatoli Boukreev's chorten especially touching: "Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve," he said. Simply Because It's There?
For the romantic and postromantic traditions of poetics in which Benjamin and Adorno participate, modern lyric ambition stands as a, or even the, high-risk enterprise, the "go-for-broke-game" [ "va-banque-Spiel"], of literary art: The lyric poem must work coherently in and with the mediumlanguagethat human beings use to articulate objective concepts, even while the lyric explores the most subjective, nonconceptual, and ephemeral phenomena. Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics
A chance to fulfil your top ambition may come at an awkward time, but you'll make the most of it. The Sun
He and Graham Gordon, another young Scot soon to join the paid ranks, have big ambitions.
He feels no need to conceal his personal ambition.
He arrived with attitude as well as ambition, but those who were offended at the time concede now that he has the game to go with it.
She had ambition; she didn't intend to end her career as a brigadier in Hollands Midden. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Modi is helped in his ambition by the general atmosphere of civilizational tension. India’s New Face
Grand ambitions can be denied for any number of market-driven reasons. Times, Sunday Times
Baxter rode solo on an unmodified, high-performance Kawasaki Ninja ZX - 12R for the St Dunstan's Blind Ambition Campaign.
An unfancied, mid-table side with little ambition to rise any further should not be quite as easy as this to step over. Times, Sunday Times
On the contrary, it should be to rekindle and harness the ambition of the Victorians for a more tolerant and enlightened age. Times, Sunday Times
Her father had found an outlet for his ambition in his work.
So Parliament offers no forum for considered debate and no brake on the unbridled ambition of an unscrupulous Prime Minister.
Such acts, he said, only served envy and the ambition of enraged parties or satisfied the cravings of lust.
But with little ambition to go wide and a lack of composure when they tried to, they were containable.
The truth is that communism cannot exist without force because it depends so heavily upon squelching individual human ambition and making it subservient to the community.
Simpson's ruthless ambition and weakness for self-promotion has not made him the most popular journalist in the BBC.
The early ambitions of youthful enthusiasm soon become tempered with realism. Everything You Need to Know for Success in Business
On the other hand, ‘bitter envy and selfish ambition’ does not come from above, ‘but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish’.
Control of the arts by government is a Soviet ambition and, as such, should strenuously be resisted in a free society.
Everywhere are evidences of faded ambitions and forlorn whistles in the dark…
It was his ambition to accumulate a million dollars before he turned thirty.
The only way we can start to demand (request?) that Iran give up ambitions to weapons is to stop pointing our nukes at them. Cheney Must Be Very Angry « Antiwar.com Blog
Still, there was something going around in the mid to late 90's in the gaming industry that doesn't really seem as prevalent today: Outrageous, preposterous ambitions to cram a complete history of everything into every plot point, every gameplay system, every FMV sequence ... it was like the late Romantic period at the turn of the 1900's, where Gustav Mahler could say "To write a symphony is to construct the world" and mean it. Great Big Bites
He offered his services to the Edinburgh Missionary Society as an overseas candidate, thus fulfilling a youthful ambition.
The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition. Rabindranath Tagore
Are there no bounds to his ambition?
He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions.
It is always a dream of greatness, not simply an ambition to succeed.
Among the rarest copper coins was one of Carausius (our English Carew), with two heads on it symbolling the ambition of our native usurper to assert empire over East as well as West, and among more treasure-trove was a unique gold coin of Veric, ” the Bericus of Tacitus; as also the rare contents of a subterranean potter's oven, preserved to our day, and yielding several whole vases. My Life as an Author
Tired and discontented housewives found their vague sorrows and vaguer longings were only the result of their "unregenerate" state; the lazy country youths felt that the frustration of their small ambitions lay in their not being Trent's Trust, and Other Stories
Ambition can sometimes be a force for good.
The moves represent a small but significant challenge to one aspect of Qatar's ambitions for the emirate, which also has drawn global attention by winning the staging rights to soccer's World Cup andfor funding and supporting the revolution in Libya. Qatar, Unveiling Tensions, Suspends Sale of Alcohol
Whether they had much bearing on the ambition of Otto and his successors to be emperors may be doubted.
The Coens unashamedly celebrate and aggrandize American culture and sense of place, using it to enhance stories that convey and explore love, betrayal and ambition.
Eric wasn't particularly intelligent but he had plenty of ambition.
And until you see that, his ambition is surely a pipe dream. The Sun
In short, I felt I could justify my ambition to travel upwards in the ecclesiastical hierarchy. ULTIMATE PRIZES
Our daredevil ambitions are never so roused as when we're our own audience.
And I could act as if running a new household was an ambition f could concentrate on and fall in love with.
At base there is an enormous arrogance and an overweening ambition.
The whole picture is one of apparently endless, urgent ambition fuelled by bottomless reserves of cash. Times, Sunday Times
Frustrated ambitions can fuel the fire of anger and resentment.
Her ambition was to be a famous singer.
I have high ambitions and an exacting eye for detail. Times, Sunday Times
It is the biggest town he has visited so far and he is nursing big ambitions. Times, Sunday Times
Ambition for power and other venal motivations are built into the structure of democracy.
It had been her lifelong ambition.
Its main ambition was to liberate individuals from the arbitrary authority of place, family, and folkway, and to permit them a life of material success amid an economic system that generated an endless bazaar of values ... Conservatism after the consumer society
[Illustration: page226] and this passage particularly seems to be a reproof to man, who, while with his domestic animals he is curious to improve the race, by employing always the finest male, pays no attention to the improvement of his own race, but intermarries with the vicious, the ugly, or the old, for considerations of wealth or ambition. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
As he wrote the commissary in 1752, he had no ambition to Presbyterianize the colony.
Alumni, researchers, graduates, postgraduates and campus companies were all amongst those with entrepreneurial spirit and ambitions to establish their own companies.
A professional career as such seemed out of the question; his only ambition in life was to be an artist.
The hands of some called for kingship and irresponsible and numerated power; other hands called for ambition, for wealth in untold sums, for disgrace and shame, or for women and wine. Chapter X
The best entrepreneurs have the right balance of inner certainty and self-deprecation to cope with problems and not lose their audacity and ambition. Times, Sunday Times
He was accused of sacrificing all, including justice, to his insatiable ambition.
Every success against the terrorists is a reminder of the shoreless ambitions of this enemy. Text of Bush's State of the Union address
His ambition for approbation sets bounds and limits to his ambition, so to speak.
I think this ordinance is addressing a problem that doesn't exist ( "aggressive panhandling" is not my issue downtown) -- unless we're talking about Burgess 'mayoral ambitions (and, hey McGinn, way to set up a preview of the next election by vetoing this). Tim vs. Tim: The Aggressive Panhandling Ordinance « PubliCola
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You know which personal ambition you should focus on and which you should put on hold. The Sun
He was spurred on by ambition.
The main qualities required are preparedness to work hard, ability to learn, ambition and good health.
By that time, the papacy had established its territorial ambitions. Christianity Today
His original ambition was to be a painter, and in 1933 he enrolled at Goldsmith's College School of Art.
Mr Fu wants to expand his business with the lofty ambition of competing with the industry leader, Rosetta Stone.
Our ambitions for this tournament have been defeated by the weather.
He was smitten and conceived an ambition to become a cartoonist. Times, Sunday Times
I *think* "moreso" has a sense of "more importantly," at least as my students use it: Macbeth's ambition is more important than the witches' prophecy in determining his actions. Ferule & Fescue
Friendships help ambition and dreams you share turn into positive action. The Sun
Where will he find more happiness to have ambition and drive him? The Sun
My ambition was to travel upwards in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
Thrown out of two schools, John eventually graduated and bummed around the world with the stated ambition of ‘becoming a beggar.’
Her lifelong ambition had been to learn how to fly.
Here, he again paints a distressing picture of a church in denial, a feudal hierarchy where obvious facts and urgent problems remain undiscussed out of loyalty, ambition, or arrogance.
But as it is attached to an important esoteric stream with political ambitions in which the United States of Europe is absolutely central—i.e., synarchy—a movement with many faces, the idea begins to seem almost reasonable. The Sion Revelation
The surreal depiction of the title ballet is the high point of this film's cinematic ambition, a Alibi.com Blog
And Kuznetsova, with her dark hair and plaintive eyes and sometimes obnoxious laugh, has become a new emblem — an emblem not of suffering, but of anger with the place that Russia has become, a parallel world cordoned off from Europe and the United States that lacks drinkable tap water and a genuinely independent judiciary, and is led by a criminal regime driven by the puniest of ambitions: theft. From Russia, With Self-Loathing
She was spurred on by a strong sense of destiny and ambition.
She tends to live in the present, without any plans, ambitions or goals.
The prospect was pleasing to many young white men in the ranks; and ambition went far to irradicate prejudice against Negro soldiers. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
What I find contemptuous is the naked ambition of most of the contestants.
His burning ambition was to study medicine.
Sarah and I could talk about stuff that professional Moms our age talk about: The rush of being in charge; the need to wear seriously rimmed glasses, even if your eyes don't require it; and techniques for gagging and hogtying that persistent little voice in the back of our heads that suggests our ambition comes at the obvious expense of our kids. Sarah and Me: Junior High with Sarah Palin
The forward-thinking family policy has to be gender-blind, assuming both sides of a couple will choose to maximize their earning power and ambitions.
But her annoyance over the pictures could not distract Catherine from her latest - and biggest - ambition.
I am somewhat miffed that if I am ever to achieve this ambition, I will have to put up with rather too much of this idiot's writings.
It is a sumptuous and intelligent film about love and thwarted ambition. Times, Sunday Times
Honestly, we made the target because we managed, for once, to keep our ambitions closer to something realistically accomplishable.
What wretched ends on curs'd ambition wait I See! where, a prey, unboned Curio lies, The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets
The concept of discovery and desire for mathematization propelled a new language, apparatus of concepts, and set of ambitions. The Times Literary Supplement
European leaders meet Friday to debate a package to resolve the euro zone's debt crisis, but investors fear the deal will underwhelm due to political differences that have led Europe to scale down the measures' ambition. What's News
Among its ambitions could be a campaign to establish a professional quarter in the city where similar firms would be encouraged to locate.
It is a laudable ambition. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of blazing new trails -- something the band appears to have more than enough ambition to try -- it seems happy to follow an over-trodden path to the summit of rock-and-roll's Mount Olympus. Kings of Leon bemoan their rock stardom on latest album, 'Come Around Sundown'
I remember good learning and running gags and reasonable ambition.
Until all is over one's ambition never dies.
Chun was coy only about his ambition for the presidency, and then only to preserve the formalities.
As Leeds United battle to stay in existence, Birmingham City directors continue to mould the midlands outfit into a club with ambitions to join the Premiership elite.
Her greatest ambition was to represent her country at the Olympics.
Let us then feede his flocke with a trebble zeale, expressed in our prayer, preaching and living: Let us make it appeare to the consciences of all, that the top of our ambition is Gods glory: and that wee preferr the winning of soules, to the winning of the world. A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
These diarised moments of brutal honesty, twinned with hesitant uncertainty, are typical of Woolf's swings between self-doubt and dogged ambition.
If what we as a society generally laud is the end result of ambition, the movie is fascinating for laying bare the ugly and insecure process to such a polished end product. Elizabeth Nicholas: There Goes Your Social Life
Any parliament is always going to be a seething cauldron of ambition.
I firmly believe that sloth and indolence are much kinder to the environment than greed and ambition.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was re-elected last month by a wide margin, largely because of support from the country's Sihanalese majority, said Tamil leaders should not "misguide" people or harbor political ambitions based on ethnicity. CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports
Clinton arrived, of course with a more mundane ambition than his grand Republican predecessor.
In the old days a young chef with ambitions to write their own menu would have raised £1.5m to launch something gilded and marbled and sconced. Restaurant review: Pitt Cue Co
After the Cuban revolution, U.S. lost its hegemony . But its ambition has never lost.
But it was quite clear to friends and colleagues that his ambition remained undimmed. Times, Sunday Times
And some miserable being, to secure the great object of his ambition, has frontlessly presented it as a sure and glorious passport to success over the head of a rival, who was so unfortunate The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II
Ambition, in a private man a vice, is in a prince, a virtue.
The big house on the hill is my ambition.
His restless ambition has never quite been containable within one government department, even the Treasury.
One of his unfulfilled ambitions is to write a scientific book on a particular forest and its inhabitants as well as write a book on wildlife photography.
Of all the grand ambitions laid out by President Obama, the nerviest might be his promise to transform American politics. The Washington Post's Humbug: Business as Usual in DC
This, quite apart from political ambitions, will be necessary to prevent the EU's already sclerotic decision-making process simply seizing up.
In the end, if some of Smith's ambitions elude him, it is perhaps because they are so grand.
Some observers think that Dukes has not been entirely purged of ambition to regain the leadership of the party he lost over 10 years ago.
We are ready to accept liberal capitalism but with the ambition of achieving social, humanist goals.
Having lost his northern provinces, he does not hide his ambition to re-establish his gruesome tyranny over them.
Surely the summit of no man 's ambition is to push a chair under a royal bottom? Times, Sunday Times
McClernand's unbridled ambition is no different from that displayed by some senior officers today.
I have watched you and your crew, how you preach up selfish ambition for divine charity and call prurient longings celestial love, while you blaspheme that very marriage from whose mysteries you borrow all your cant. The Saint's Tragedy
The result of years of research, the book portrays the regent as a woman of ambition, taste, and faith.
The wolves gather again the following day, a few suspecting the hero is purblind to all but his own ambitions, caught up as he is in the hysteria of his last days.
This is where client service meets international ambitions. Times, Sunday Times
To achieve that status, a player needs - besides a natural talent - a burning inner ambition.
Ambition often drives a thinker to stretch evidence, ignore nuance and disregard exceptions. Times, Sunday Times
Gerry's ambition was to become a portrait painter.
What I do oppose is the line that being an older mother is a really marvellous ambition and easily achievable. Times, Sunday Times
Once the Blackburn Rovers boss began talking in terms of helping Cole achieve his one unaccomplished ambition, there was no going back for the 30-year-old.
And yet there was something rather "uppish" in commanding a frigate at the very first set-off, and little spread was left for the ambition. Dream Days
I think he sees his cause with the eyes of love, and such lofty ambitions are mostly wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
Will new ambitions change your world of love? The Sun
But investors and analysts fear the deal will underwhelm, owing to political differences that have led Europe to scale down the measures' ambition. World Watch
You have the can-do attitude that inspires others and instead of playing down your ambitions, you are ready to see how far they can take you. The Sun
These are men and women who work not off of political ideals or even insight, but rather are driven by careerist ambition and opportunist fear.
Get driven into your ambition, pursue your goals passionately and you will see your dreams come alive. Dr Roopleen
With a shrug, he shrugged off alien concepts such as responsibility, maturity, ambition and commitment.
She doubts whether she'll ever be able to fulfil her ambition.
After having been subjugated to ambition, your maternal instincts are at last starting to assert themselves.
The main ambition of the club is to take people from all walks of life and teach them public leadership, thus opening up a whole new avenue for its members.
With calls for Senator Clinton to abandon what is now seen as little more than a schismatic adventure that risks a fracture along a racial fault-line dividing the Democratic Party just as the Whig Party was fractured by race, some have deduced that the probable motive driving the sinking campaign deeper into the mire is a misplaced belief some attribute to James Carville that they can torpedo Obama's presidential ambitions; survive the disaster of his loss to McCain and prevail as owners of the Democratic Party through the agency of the now discredited Democratic Leadership Council. Michael Carmichael: The Political Titanic
Her prime motive was personal ambition.
They offered an outlet for the ambitions of land-hungry knights and noblemen.
Instead of concealing your secret ambitions it is time to show what you can do. The Sun
It has been my ambition ever since watching Burt Lancaster, in his barrel-chested pomp, swim home through the pools of his Californian neighbours after a little chat with each on the way.
Your success in the field of your especial ambition will be assured if you win your first chance there by making an _initial_ pleasing impression and then _keep right on pleasing_. Certain Success
But in today's cost-conscious world the cutting edge concept car is a broader and more complex expression of a company's heritage, abilities and ambitions. Dream Cars
Her ambition is to swim the English Channel.
It's taken artist, Chris Fiddes, 60 days to complete, the realisation of a lifelong ambition.

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