How To Use Ambitious In A Sentence

The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
Suddenly, seeking high office, Liddy Dole was described as over-ambitious, chilly and nasty under the "syrupy" Southern accent. Caryl Rivers: Bad, Mad Michelle
Born Princess Sophia of the minor German principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, reared by an ambitious and self-centered mother, she was plucked out of near obscurity by the Russian czarina, Elizabeth, in 1744 as a bride for the heir to the Russian throne, Peter III. The Rise Of an Empress
Reporter - unquote "unquote" is looking for a confident, competent and ambitious reporter with language skills, specifically French or Scandinavian, to work as part of the unquote "team. News from Journalism.co.uk
The bond struck between these ambitious men was to endure.

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But it has a depth and ambitiousness that are worthy of praise.
A less ambitious painter would have been content merely to bask in the glory that his canvases had earned him.
This sort of decentralising of empowerment would be welcome if it was not for the government's ambitious home-building programme. Further urban sprawl solves nothing | Editorial
Jack's hobby was model making and he was currently engaged in a vast and ambitious project.
I'd never met anyone so ambitious and as single-minded.
It is zeal for the salvation of souls which makes the prelateship desired, if you will believe the ambitious man; which makes the monk, who is destined for the choir, run hither and thither, as the restless soul himself will tell you; which causes all those censures and murmurings against the prelates of the Treatise on the Love of God
It used to be the case that ambitious people went into politics in the hope that they would one day become famous.
A whole generation of experienced, ambitious politicians had been left by the wayside. Times, Sunday Times
It is an ambitious target, but Leblanc believes it is attainable.
Nigel, by opting out of the computer course, had already made his compromise with ambitious dreams.
Perhaps his most ambitious project is Hitlab.com, launched last September, an online community where aspiring artists can promote and sell their music outside record-label auspices. Akon's Recession-Proof Tune
The government is persisting with its ambitious public works programme.
Especially the flowerage of spring time, with its many wild flowers and the rows of fruit trees along the fairways, make even the most ambitious golf player stop and contemplate nature's dazzling beauty.
More ambitious compositions include a male flautist and a seated harper.
The "ambitiousness" - meter really undermines this. Daring Fireball
Takla Haymanot of Gojjam, another of John's powerful and ambitious subjects, was also motivated solely by self-interest.
They are ambitious although they are poor.
Thackeray said the BJP had touched the pinnacle of success under Vajpayee's leadership and lamented that some ambitious leaders in the party were eyeing his place.
A firm nexus has been established between amoral politicians, ambitious bureaucrats, unscrupulous businessmen and hardened criminals.
Union policies for new technology represent an ambitious project and negotiation of technology agreements is still at an early stage.
Dora is engaged to a pompous young bigwig of local fascist society, to the evident delight of her ambitious mother.
Jupiter adds the luck that helps make an ambitious family reunion happen. The Sun
Livia is desperately ambitious that her son, Tiberius, become Emperor on Augustus’s death, never mind that there are quite a few other heirs before him, or that neither Augustus nor Tiberius himself is very keen on Tiberius being Emperor. Dissecting the Devil «
Here also there was an ambitious programme of church building in the twelfth century, as favoured churches and chapels were transformed into parish kirks.
A steady flame of love is ignited when you are introduced to an ambitious Virgo. The Sun
They are ambitious people and want the club back in the top flight. The Sun
Do you feel ambitious enough to attain goals that previously you might have thought were out of your personal reach?
Two men recently died, an ambitious neophyte politician and his political rival, in a bizarre shooting in New York's City Council chambers.
Luck is building for an ambitious plan for a family reunion - it takes teamwork and you have a key role to play. The Sun
He is an ambitious man.
An ambitious reclamation scheme on the south coast also came to nothing around this time.
It is a wildly ambitious essay that has been anthologized elsewhere, but it resonates here more than ever, finally nestled among the other work that occasioned it.
Despite challenges to pricing, they will benefit from an ambitious reform of the health system to restore universal coverage. Times, Sunday Times
He does not press ambitious claims, and each of his opinions is firmly anchored in the law.
And they are humbled by the task of transforming so many ambitious individuals and obstreperous regions into a harmonious but innovative whole.
Their sprawling theme park of paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations and videos amounts to a surprisingly ambitious exhibition.
This is an ambitious 18-track programme piece redolent of the history, mystery, and eloquent loneliness in the Border hills of the composer's childhood.
The defile itself continues but you, unless you are hardy and ambitious, do not.
She had some grandiose ( ie overambitious ) plan to start up her own company.
Ambitious new proposals for York's vital Castle-Piccadilly area could see the car park at the foot of Clifford's Tower buried underground.
Such an ambitious target was dependent upon adequate financial flows, access to the North's markets and secure oil supplies.
It proposed an ambitious programme of investment and the designation of Cabinet colleagues as ministers for various decaying areas.
Oil had stimulated new industry, cities were being modernized rapidly and ambitious plans promised change in the countryside.
It was a bold and ambitious plan that took no account of the terrain or local conditions.
It's easy to perceive the Super Furries as too ambitious for their own good, as they cavort guilelessly from West Coast rock to nosebleed techno, from mariachi to calypso.
Jon Newby, now top scorer after his seventh goal of the season, would be a prime target for ambitious clubs.
She is an ambitious career woman.
The pair sensibly attempted a less ambitious integration of moderate-size compositions in the more restricted space upstairs.
The ambitious architecture student was furious when the Congo government closed a university in the capital Kinshasa. The Sun
Clever, ambitious and moderate as he is, I do not for a moment think he expects his party to win the election.
An ambitious style of play that enables them to play tight, wide or preferably a mixture of both is required - now. Times, Sunday Times
But his image belied a character which was scheming, ambitious and hungry for power. Times, Sunday Times
As Cesarani demonstrates, Eichmann was an ambitious man determined to do his job well.
There are enough fairways here to fill even the most ambitious itinerary.
Jeya feels that her ambitious nature made her unsuitable for an arranged marriage.
Where does chivalry at last become something more than a mere procession of plumes and armor, to be lamented by Burke, except in some of the less ambitious verses of the Trouvères, where we hear the canakin clink too emphatically, perhaps, but which at least paint living men and possible manners? The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
Commend an ambitious man, some proud prince or potentate, si plus aequo laudetur (saith [1954] Erasmus) cristas erigit, exuit hominem, Deum se putat, he sets up his crest, and will be no longer a man but a God. Anatomy of Melancholy
By no stretch of the imagination could you call him ambitious.
Negotiations reconvene one day after the top Republican lawmaker suggested an ambitious effort to trim future indebtedness by more than $4 trillion may be unworkable.
However, Lochhead argued, it is crucial that the new institution tries not to be too ambitious.
I never really enjoyed Pink Floyd, and Orange Can has successfully reminded me why: the dull, stagnant jams sound indifferent and unambitious.
This overly ambitious device is confusing and the action drags. Times, Sunday Times
It was, after all, the most ambitious amphibious operation in the annals of military history until the Normandy invasion.
Perhaps the main fault of the book is also its strongest virtue, its ambitiousness.
I agree I am ambitious, and I don't see that as a pejorative term.
Despite challenges to pricing, they will benefit from an ambitious reform of the health system to restore universal coverage. Times, Sunday Times
To preserve nonuse will require policies more ambitious and comprehensive than the obsolete bipolar deterrence strategy.
Reeking of managerial sub-thinking, the words chosen to sum up the new policy also sum up the current predicament of the party as a whole: stuck in the middle, unambitious and lazy.
There seems to be a subtle hint that Edwards is an ambitious showboater who just wants to be president. Compare And Contrast: Hillary Camp's Approach To Obama Vs. Approach To Edwards
This was one of the most ambitious threats from Norway and was aiming to establish maritime control over the western seaways.
These have huge potential but will only succeed with proper funding and real engagement by ambitious businesses. Times, Sunday Times
It was a brave gamble, a bid for power, by an ambitious, clever and canny politician who saw his career facing a premature end.
The fiction of Richard Powers sometimes resembles a dying satyr — above the waist is a mind full of serious thought, philosophical reflection, deep exploration of music and science; below, a pair of spindly legs strain to support the great weight of the ambitious brain. 2009 September | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
PARK CITY, Utah Hollywood Reporter - Weaving six different stories of the human devastation during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, "Kinyarwanda" is a very ambitious film. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The result was an ambitious target for Essex of 65 per cent of waste diverted from landfill without incineration by 2007.
These are not auspicious conditions either for future sales or the supply of ambitious workers.
They couldn't have gotten any firm to hire them as brokers, not when it was the Eighties and the market was booming and the Street was filled with ambitious preppies trying to make it in the business.
Ambitious attitude essential.
Former colleagues of Usi describe him as intelligent, ambitious and volatile.
Others are sponsored by ambitious federal agencies, sometimes with total disregard for the recommendations of other arms of government.
He is the go-to guy for ambitious politicians and nervous CEOs who want to become great communicators.
Educated and ambitious, they are lured here by the promise of material acquisition.
A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble.
Politically he was naïvely ambitious and factious; he owes the epithet ‘Good’ only to his patronage of men of letters, including Lydgate and Capgrave.
My aunt Mary was petite, pretty, and very ambitious.
They have set themselves some ambitious goals.
A blouse was the most ambitious item we were taught to make - mine looked like a pillow case with armholes.
He was immensely ambitious but unable to conceive of winning power for himself.
What Mr. Obama was really doing was a lot of fence-mending, because the United States was seen as the principal obstacle - and Mr. Obama as the footdragger-in-chief - that prevented any ambitious agreements from being signed. NYT > Home Page
It is just that aspirations at the club have tended towards the more ambitious side.
He was immensely ambitious but unable to conceive of winning power for himself.
As he opens one of his most ambitious buildings yet, a $135 million glass-fronted pavilion that encloses two historic theaters and adds an innovative third, he is also working on a civic library in an unprepossessing edge-city near Vancouver. Profile of Vancouver architect Bing Thom
Jeya feels that her ambitious nature made her unsuitable for an arranged marriage.
We have a lot of ambitious people here and our appraisal is designed to stretch and challenge. Times, Sunday Times
There are equally ambitious plans to turn the former docks into a new berth for cruise liners, injecting £40m of tourism income into the economy.
This year we felt the sculptors were more ambitious then ever and our 120 exhibitors were delighted with the turnout.
Victims as we are of bad habit, unambitious as we are about our souls' progress we speak so unguardedly! Avoiding Idle Talk
As their budgets have increased, their music has become correspondingly more ambitious, embracing big ensembles along with bedroom turntablists.
So he who would not exploit or contribute to the cause of war must cease to follow tradition, cease to be greedy, ambitious, self-seeking.
The ambitiousness of Sebastian Junger's "War" is summed up in its title. Sebastian Junger's 'War,' reviewed by Philip Caputo
She tends to thrust herself forward too much , ie to be too self - assertive or ambitious.
He is a German refugee, a Jewish scientist specialising in relativity and its conundrums; she is a doctor's daughter, musical, ambitious, idealistic.
I am contented with my fortunes, spectator e longinquo, and love Neptunum procul a terra spectare furentem: he is ambitious, and not satisfied with his: but what [3944] gets he by it? to have all his life laid open, his reproaches seen: not one of a thousand but he hath done more worthy of dispraise and animadversion than commendation; no better means to help this than to be private. Anatomy of Melancholy
Management critique Hart is ambitious but not ruthless in achieving personal aims.
My aunt Mary was petite, pretty, and very ambitious.
It proposed an ambitious programme of investment and the designation of Cabinet colleagues as ministers for various decaying areas.
Worse still, engineering and manufacturing are still not viewed as sexy by ambitious youngsters.
And to compound the problem, the local planning authority had shown themselves unsympathetic to the owner's over-ambitious plans for rebuilding.
The President's wife is often politically astute, ambitious and very influential in White House policy decisions.
Such thinking in the scientific community prompted the ambitious plan to map the human genome.
Nowadays it's acceptable for women to be ambitious. But it wasn't then.
An ambitious programme of events will include a showpiece £5m international arts festival, tipped to rival Edinburgh's in scope and quality.
How many romantic misunderstandings and happy-clappy showstoppers must we endure before longing for the curtain to drop in front of those beaming, ambitious faces?
He moved in exalted circles - and was ambitious for greater things.
There are people with severe literacy problems who cannot find work, people dependent on alcohol and drugs, people unable to manage their ordinary lives or to ensure that their children become literate, numerate or even ambitious.
At 14, Mary was ambitious, intelligent and outstandingly pretty.
Chicago Spire could be a symbol of what has happened in real estate construction in general over the past year or so -- an ambitious project full of promise and hope, left lingering in a state of undoneness due to the economic shift. Luxist
Her latest play is more pedestrian and less ambitious than her earlier work.
Zapa is a slow, passive, unambitious 32-year-old locksmith, working in a small country town in Argentina.
Prophets is a book-length poem with an ambitiously epic scope, a sensibility and language that is rooted in Jamaica and a work with a markedly religious overtone — not doctrinaire or even ideological, but openly exploring the day-to-day implications of Pentecostalism in Jamaica through a language that is sensual, that invokes myth and reggae and that is best described as risky and experimental. Poetry Terrors : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Roman law, flocked into such centres; a tenacious and ambitious race of men issued from among the burgesses, who equally hated the naughtiness of the lords and what they called the lawlessness of the peasants. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution
‘She was a wonderful, beautiful ambitious woman and she will be missed,’ his deep voice boomed between sobs.
Diplomats now expect the mission to be much less ambitious.
An ambitious infrastructure project is also on the cards including 2.3 billion to improve rural roads. Times, Sunday Times
They themselves were youthful, ambitious artists channeling the hubris of their own oyster-worlds into these coltish, intelligent alter egos.
The club is showing that it is very ambitious and people can see how hard we work. The Sun
Thus, to dismiss writer-director Darren Aronofsky's hyper-ambitious third feature The Fountain - a heady fusion of science fiction, metaphysics and a melodramatic quest for immortality both romantic and spiritual - for simply believing in its own sentimental grandiloquence is to deny one of the most exquisite and strangely moving trips to the multiplex this year. GreenCine Daily: Interview. Darren Aronofsky.
They were very ambitious, they gouged money out of businesses and governments and so on and they really fought for something.
An ambitious family project may ask more of you than anyone else because you are the one with the most energy and ideas. The Sun
Lakshmi and Dell began dating in November 2007 and remained romantically involved until she dumped him in September 2009, telling him he was "unambitious" and had an "uninteresting" career, his lawsuit said. SUED For Custody, Name Change Of Baby
An ambitious infrastructure project is also on the cards including 2.3 billion to improve rural roads. Times, Sunday Times
His ambitious attempts to go for early winners inevitably produces a higher proportion of unforced errors than is healthy. ITF World of Tennis
But it is the structure of the song that seems, still, so extraordinarily ambitious for a musician in his early twenties. Times, Sunday Times
I have had to stay competitive and ambitious. Times, Sunday Times
Extending the pier, providing extra slipways and an off-shore marina acceptable to residents, are all part of ambitious plans submitted for funding.
In the novel, scenes of daily hardship alternate with those of stronger historical forces colliding: officers of the secret police rounding up suspected counter-revolutionaries as the city's inhabitants starve; ragged soldiers fighting without adequate ammunition or food; officials studying the files of suspects and reading anonymous denunciations through the night in the only heated building in the city; ambitious party bureaucrats eliminating their enemies; idealistic revolutionaries explaining away gross injustices as "historical necessity. The Revolutionary Novelist
It is an essential part of a competitive and ambitious growth agenda. Times, Sunday Times
So what unambitious project are all these brains working on?
I think I was overambitious in the number of books I brought on vacation.
These are just the starting points for a much more ambitious project: a kaleidoscopic portrait of today's Russia.
She was aware of a whole host of ambitious young managers waiting in the wings.
Neither does he know what it is not to be ambitious like him.
Loyal and fiercely ambitious, she only sparingly shared need-to-know information with her own colleagues.
Now they are going for a more ambitious target - one company-wide registration to include safety, personnel and management services.
I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
As for the main course, the menu is long and ambitious, at least in terms of the types of fish available: halibut, salmon, orange roughy, and ahi tuna among others, all of which are grilled or pan-fried, as well as bouillabaisse.
But what do we know about this sparkily ambitious politician? The Sun
Space Shuttle Endeavour has launched on an ambitious mission to deliver a new science laboratory and robotic system to the International Space Station.
Then, if the first foray into manscaping is successful, they may get more ambitious. Times, Sunday Times
You combine dual aspects by being ambitious professionally and domesticated in the home and family situations.
It's useful to be reminded, amid all the nods to history and perdurable heritage, that this was, at one level, a party for close to two thousand socially ambitious people.
The President's wife is often politically astute, ambitious and very influential in White House policy decisions.
Phases 2 and 3 seem overly ambitious given the present circumstances.
The lowlights were a costly decision to establish a foothold in India through a deal with BSNL, and the departures of COO Gary Daichendt and CTO Gary Kunis, who had come up with an ambitious plan to remake Nortel. Networking Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
Ambitious plans have been unveiled for Winchester's first ever nightclub.
The plot sometimes passes people by because they couldn't see the whole picture, and the organisation is very ambitious in making sure that the actions of players have impact on the world outside the Elysia. Lextalionis IX The Queen's Gambit
You combine dual aspects by being ambitious professionally and domesticated in the home and family situations.
WASHINGTON -- The government is setting what it calls an ambitious goal for Alzheimer's disease: Development of effective ways to treat and prevent the mind-destroying illness by 2025. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
But being openly ambitious was considered unfeminine, and to be called unfeminine was the worst insult. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Latvia's attempts to get the ball forward quickly frequently ended in failure because of overambitious passes.
While they were in close pursuit of charity, and made this Christian disposition their chief scope, they might be zealous of spiritual gifts, be ambitious of them in some measure, but especially of prophesying, that is, of interpreting scripture. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The failure of ambitious projects within the Council was evident by the time of its second session in 1950.
It concerns how ambitious a reconstruction and reform programme should be embarked upon. Times, Sunday Times
Neither as witty nor as intelligent as it believes itself to be, the book is however ambitious.
We're all ambitious - it seems to run in the family.
The ambitious project was completed in only nine months.
It is an essential part of a competitive and ambitious growth agenda. Times, Sunday Times
A search for the "sublime" in nature coexisted with ambitious historical subjects, slick moralistic storytelling and an emphasis on technological virtuosity. The MFA's New Art of the Americas Wing . . .
Japan has an increasingly ambitious space programme and last month began to set up its first space laboratory, which was blasted off on the US space shuttle Endeavour.
I in turn don't contain even the merest trace elements of sympathy for the ambitious, vain and greedy trendoids who masquerade as contestants on these shows.
It's because vested interests in the teaching profession are colluding with miserly politicians and ambitious parents to preserve and enhance the privileges they've won for their own offspring.
The ambitious project is a great example of the investment needed if Britain is to remain competitive in the tourism business. Times, Sunday Times
We were going to do something more ambitious over Christmas this year but we never got it together.
an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time
Despite some overlong and self-indulgent sequences (such as the Japanese nightclub scene), the ambitious multi-country scope is handled well with several noteworthy performances. 2009 May : Scrubbles.net
Ambitious, energetic, and very able, Faulkner was clearly positioning himself for the succession to Brookeborough.
Money to help pay for ambitious future plans was at least one motive for seeking publication.
Governments, industrialists, colonialists, charities and individuals have all devised ambitious plans to develop it.
We therefore encourage elaborate, ambitious syntax, diversionary subordinate clauses, and other enriching linguistic techniques. LOVE YOU MADLY
Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame.
As the title suggests, the scope of the book is very ambitious.
The strategy is comprehensive but it looks overambitious for the resources allocated to it.
You're an ambitious man. You're not in politics for your health—that I know.
It is highly serious, extremely ambitious, densely written and rather pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
He had succeeded to the earldom in 1678 and embarked on an ambitious programme for refurbishing his Elizabethan ancestral home.
No repeat is likely of those simplistic pledge card promises - such as cutting hospital waiting lists - which seemed so straightforward and unambitious in 1997, but turned out to be a millstone.
Ambitious, brilliant entrepreneurs revolting against the old-line, hierarchical, East Coast work culture defined the Valley's earliest days.
It is refreshing to report that the piece is highly ambitious, biliously funny and right on the button. Neighbourhood Watch – review
This season the ambitious pair have taken off like a rocket. The Sun
He argues that Bismarck's misogyny stemmed from his childhood when he found himself in a triangle between his cold, intelligent and ambitious mother, whom he disliked, and his weak, kindly father.
There is also great use of ambitious men, in being screens to princes in matters of danger and envy; for no man will take that part, except he be like a seeled dove, that mounts and mounts, because he cannot see about him. The Essays
The Society has a full and ambitious programme laid out for the rest of the year.
Her books, bearing ambitious titles such as Women, Resistance and Revolution, helped shape one of the biggest political upheavals of the 20th century.
The camp residents have ambitious plans. Times, Sunday Times
Socrates, the fearless Utopianism of Plato, the ambitious encyclopaedism of Aristotle, mark the dawn of a new courage and a new wilfulness in human affairs. The Pivot of Civilization

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