Ambitious in sentence

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But then come the Millennium Development Goals, eight ambitious targets to be met by 2015.

So in late 2014, we launched an ambitious project to do just that: explore and protect.

And yes, this is ambitious, but there is momentum on this issue, and over the years I have seen the sheer power of momentum, and it's just starting on this issue.

And then whatever that number is, we are going to kickstart, sort of, because you can't use KickStarter for political work, but anyway, kickstart, sort of, first a bottom-up campaign where people will make small dollar commitments contingent on reaching very ambitious goals, and when those goals have been reached, we will turn to the large dollar contributors, to get them to contribute to make it possible for us to run the kind of Super PAC necessary to win this issue, to change the way money influences politics, so that on November 8, which I discovered yesterday is the day that Aaron would have been 30 years old, on November 8, we will celebrate 218 representatives in the House and 60 Senators in the United States Senate who have committed to this idea of fundamental reform.

Well, this was an unbelievably ambitious idea, ambitious because communities had to approve those plans.

Adam I is the worldly, ambitious, external side of our nature.

Before long, ambitious Norman knights were looking for new challenges.

She launched an ambitious plan to start a green revolution in her country, and before we knew it, we were importing tons of fertilizer and seed and telling farmers how to apply that fertilizer and plant.

The support staff, the friends and family, people who lifted our spirits, and never let us give up on our ambitious endeavors.

Leandro has ambitious plans to take his model to other low-income communities in Rio, and Jovita is volunteering at the police unit that she helped created.

I've been leading polar expeditions for most of my adult life, and last month, my teammate Tarka L'Herpiniere and I finished the most ambitious expedition I've ever attempted.

So the paradigm isn't exactly working, and I think our policymakers realize that, because in 2012, Mayor Bloomberg signed into law what he called the most ambitious and comprehensive open data legislation in the country.

And later, when it was a company valued at over three billion dollars, and I'd made 70 of the staff into millionaires, they sort of said, "Well done, Steve!" (Laughter) (Applause) You can always tell ambitious women by the shape of our heads: They're flat on top for being patted patronizingly.

But critically, they were flexible and gave us autonomy to work out how we got there, giving us the space to be creative, ambitious and take risk.

By taking a long-term, ambitious view and giving people the autonomy to be creative to solve our world's biggest challenges, we've disrupted entire industries.

Here in California, there's a very ambitious emissions target to cut emissions.

And governments are very ambitious around the world.

President Tong told me about his ambitious idea to either build up or even float the little islands where his people live.

And as the world's largest and most ambitious wetland restoration project, the international spotlight is on us in the Sunshine State.

But that ain't easy, because the Global Goals aren't just ambitious, they're also pretty complicated.

Now, the Global Goals are certainly ambitious, but they're not about turning the world into Norway in just 15 years.

"Form follows function" had become modernity's ambitious manifesto and detrimental straitjacket, as it liberated architecture from the decorative, but condemned it to utilitarian rigor and restrained purpose.

She had the technical ability to spearhead some of the most ambitious space missions of our time, and she perfectly understood her place of being exactly who she was in any place she was.

And now that space-time is an experimentally confirmed part of reality, we can get a bit more ambitious.

But we're about to embark upon an extremely ambitious approach, in which we aim to turn on whole suites of genes that are already present in every crop.

Margaret was beautiful, ambitious, and ruthless in persecuting any threat to her power, and she distrusted Richard of York, most of all.

But when I started this over 10 years ago, I didn't have a word for it, I didn't have any ambitious notions about it, I had no visions of grandeur.

And even when we're ambitious, even when we're leaning in, that socialization of perfection has caused us to take less risks in our careers.

Because even very basic advances in digital technology have enabled them to operate increasingly independently, in or out of a commercial context, to pursue ever more ambitious and eclectic objectives.

That's too ambitious."

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