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Ambition in sentence

646 examples of Ambition in a sentence

If you would have asked me what my ambition was, I would have told you I wanted to be a megachurch pastor.
But seriously, if you'd have said, "What is your ambition?"
Surely, we need the same level of ambition if we're going to serve the most vulnerable in our societies.
So we need to take steps that will be monitored and reviewed, so that we can keep increasing the ambition of how we cut emissions, and how we move more rapidly to renewable energy, so that we have a safe world.
My ambition always was to be a pilot, to fly a plane, to feel free to fly the sky, to touch the sky.
Wealth was never the primary ambition in our house.
And maybe I also had the ambition to do more with less.
It turns out, the reaction was, um ... It was a long-held ambition of mine to bring down a statistics website due to public demand.
Now, what was even more interesting about this is that the boy was a sweet, gentle soul who had no interest in patrolling the class with the cane, while I was full of ambition to do so.
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller, we say to girls, "You can have ambition, but not too much."
Robin Hood had this ambition to improve these buildings in some way, but what they realized was to fix the buildings would be too expensive and impractical.
CA: And what's the scale of ambition here?
Sadly, my father took his own life when I was 15, and left an awful lot of unfulfilled ambition.
The data I use is the ingredients in my kitchen, the time I have, the ambition I have, and I curate that data.
In this study, children who had engaged, interested parents, ones who had ambition for their future, were more likely to escape from a difficult start.
And I know that the questions I have to ask myself are: One, am I honest about the scope of my ambition?
Because it's easy to figure out that once you didn't get what you wanted, then maybe you should have set your sights a little lower, but I'm here to tell you to be aggressive about your ambition.
We need ambition without arrogance.
We need the ambition to restore the atmosphere, to draw down carbon dioxide back to a level that is compatible with a stable climate and healthy oceans.
As for that first sphere of work, I think what Abraham Lincoln's life suggests is that fierce ambition is a good thing.
He had a huge ambition.
And that worthy ambition became his lodestar.
So fueled by that ambition, he returned to the state legislature.
So in the end that powerful ambition that had carried Lincoln through his bleak childhood had been realized.
That ambition that had allowed him to laboriously educate himself by himself, to go through that string of political failures and the darkest days of the war.
When I went back, this journalist called me and said, "You know, your name has been cited for the president of the republic," I said, "Ma'am, you must be mistaken, because I have no ambition whatsoever."
Now, the ambition of the study is large, but the premise is actually quite simple.
Actually, I realize fear of embarrassment drives me as much as any ambition.
But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there: women washing their babies, washing their clothes, hanging them out to dry.
We need development agencies, donors and the conservation establishment to raise their ambition to the scale of investment urgently required to deliver this vision.
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