Example collocations logo

Ambitions in sentence

661 examples of Ambitions in a sentence

Beijing's seeming silence over the nuclear ambitions of North Korea has left US, Japanese, and South Korean officials alike wondering when it will "stand up" to assert its influence over its neighbor and erstwhile ally.
The 2003 Iraq War exacerbated Sunni-Shia tensions and removed a critical barrier to Iranian ambitions.
Israelis are primarily concerned about Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
While this is hardly his first – nor even the first time he has been given the boot – there are questions now about whether this will hurt his political ambitions, which many believe were the main motivation behind his decision to act as a leader of the campaign to withdraw the UK from the European Union.
Never again should others decide the future of peoples and countries; at the very least, nobody should undertake such decisionmaking without knowing and respecting the legitimate and freely expressed ambitions of the nations concerned.
China’s leaders know that realizing their global leadership ambitions requires them to adhere to global norms and accept greater responsibility.
The best plans combine national ambitions with recognition of local economic realities and include priorities and trade-offs that allow governments at all levels to be flexible with implementation.
Indeed, the Silk Road is integral to President Xi Jinping's “China dream" ambitions, which entail restoring China's past glory and status.
Unlike in the past, it stems neither from hegemonic ambitions nor from the sort of weakness that might tempt aggression.
There is, however, no evidence that even the most radical students ever had such ambitions, and the demonstrations had been entirely peaceful.
What will their relationship mean for the 2015 international agreement that has, for now, frozen Iran’s nuclear ambitions?
But what if Turkey were to abandon its European ambitions and align itself strategically with Russia or even Iran?
These leaders’ departure from office reflected their countries’ internal politics, and their successors will focus more on declining support at home than on regional ambitions.
But old and unresolved rivalries within Asia are finding new expression as political ambitions and military budgets expand.
As graduation nears for the first class to complete their Master of Business Administration since the onset of the global financial crisis, students are circulating an oath that commits them to pursue their work “in an ethical manner”; “to strive to create sustainable economic, social, and environmental prosperity worldwide”; and to manage their enterprises “in good faith, guarding against decisions and behavior that advance my own narrow ambitions but harm the enterprise and the societies it serves.”
German geopolitical ambitions, it was believed, would invariably seek greater proportionality with the size of the country’s population and the dynamism of its economy.
This, in turn, would set back China’s ambitions to be the region’s trade anchor.
But MBS’s ambitions extend far beyond his country’s borders.
On the issue of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iranian government’s equivocal position also is a source of growing concern.
He delivered the clean bill of health that Saddam had hoped for when he began hiding his atomic factories and ambitions.
Too many worn out ghosts of past or altered cultural ambitions and ideals litter today's scene.
Strongmen tend to self-destruct, owing to colossal mistakes that doom their grandiose ambitions.
Child marriage also thwarts ambitions to eliminate extreme poverty and promote gender equality.
Before a lasting peace can be achieved, the US will need to reflect on the mistakes that characterized its post-Cold War period of hegemony, when its unilateral military adventures and neo-imperial ambitions left it overstretched, highly indebted, and locked in perpetual war.
But China’s ambitions extend beyond the South China Sea: It aims to create a strongly Sino-centric Asia.
To the east looms Iran, with its anti-American, anti-Western rhetoric and vast regional ambitions.
Likewise, efforts to weaken Iran's disruptive influence in the region must be maintained, while Turkey's regional ambitions must be kept in mind.
OSAKA – Japan’s alliance with the United States is widely viewed as a crucial counterweight to China’s hegemonic ambitions, which pose significant threats to Asian security.
But the JCPOA is clearly – and deliberately – focused on curbing Iran’s nuclear-weapons development, not its missile programs, regional ambitions, or animus toward Israel.
Anxiety about such ambitions ignores China’s history.
BackNext