Sentence examples for Earlier ambition from inspiring English sources

Frustrated in an earlier ambition to kill Mr. Nixon, Mr. Bremer, had been stalking the Governor for weeks.

But now Musharraf had renounced the Taliban and his country's earlier ambition to dominate Afghanistan through support of its hard-line Islamist government.

She developed her artistic talent studying under the urban-realist painter Robert Henri and abandoned her earlier ambition to be an actress in favour of stage design.

Her decision to go back to London in the autumn of 1962 was an attempt to recapture her earlier ambition to be a brilliant literary figure, with "a salon".

And from the dribs and drabs of information we've got about her interests, it seems that she is setting aside her earlier ambition to be a pediatric cardiologist and moving in a more political direction.

Croatia has recently returned its old nationalist party to power, although the party has forsworn its earlier ambitions.

These days its earlier ambitions can be seen only in the 18th-century cathedral that rises over downtown with its hulking steeple.

At a minimum, a nuclear-armed Mr Hussein could be counted on to revive his earlier ambitions to intimidate his neighbours and dominate the Gulf.

The postal-reform bills that passed the lower house of the Diet on July 9th are a travesty of Mr Koizumi's earlier ambitions.

And it has continued to produce its own Web shows, albeit quietly, without any of the fanfare that accompanied its earlier ambitions.

Or if one believes that 10 or 20 years down those career tracks, when going back to earlier ambitions is rarely possible, those choices will be the ones that have created the greatest happiness for those individuals.