Sentence examples for Central ambition from inspiring English sources

Others blame the long-held central ambition of every young Chinese man to become a Confucian mandarin, a bureaucrat, rather than an engineer or scientist.

He represents Mr. Jojola's ideal because his central ambition is not simply to become an artist but also to return to his town and teach glassmaking to other Indians.

Bring up the Bodies has been lavishly praised by most critics although the Sunday Times' Andrew Holgate was a voice of dissent, writing that there were too many characters and it was too mired in the historical detail: "The result is a book that is curiously flat and leaden, and one whose central ambition, to explain its chief subject, is frustratingly unfulfilled".

And this, ultimately, appears to be the hugely impressive novel's central ambition; to demonstrate that the gathering of stories, the marshalling of facts, the patient documenting of all the available evidence does indeed take us somewhere – but it cannot take us everywhere.

One central ambition of internalism that of fixing the meaning of 'aesthetic' by tying it to features peculiar to aesthetic experience has had to be given up.

There are various reasons why one should be loathe to accept the proposition that the one central ambition of AI research is to produce artificial people.

THE evolution of the European Union will depend largely on how it copes with two of its central ambitions.

"It has been one of the central ambitions of my administration to promote a fresh and distinctive reputation for Australia overseas", he said.

In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Talese said one of Mr. Williamson's central ambitions was for people to be honest about their personal and sexual lives and not be embarrassed about it.

The huge gap between the UK's target of 2Mbps speed and Singapore's 1Gbps was cited as an example of a lack of central government ambition.

Mr. Blair's central political ambition remains to transform public services, available to all, with a stable economy and sound public finances.