Sentence examples for Long ambition from inspiring English sources

He never did fulfil his long ambition to score from his own half.

"One candidate once wrote to me saying his life long ambition was to work for Oxfam," says Salisbury.

On the one hand, the Iraq mission would fulfill Morgain's long ambition to serve his country in combat — he had been in the Army as a young man, but that had been during peacetime.

Cassel had a parallel career in the theatre, first in Jean Vilar's company in the 1960s for whom he played in Molière and Musset, and in 1976, he realised a long ambition to play in a Broadway musical.

Massey's part is an exhausting one, but playing Lincoln fulfills for him a life-long ambition.

To say that Johnson, forever upbeat and helpful, with never a whinge about his lot, deserves to realise his life-long ambition and become champion at last, at the age of 38, is one of sport's great understatements.

SMACK in the middle of Mark Wahlberg's cavernous home gym here, amid the racks of weights and rows of cardio equipment, is the emblem of a career-long ambition: a regulation-size boxing ring.

For her part, Ms. Schieffelin said, her sex was the only possible reason she was repeatedly told that she would not achieve her career-long ambition of becoming a Morgan Stanley managing director.

All that changed this autumn, when a local man fulfilled a life-long ambition to launch his own bus company to link up the villages of his valley, providing a "lifeline" to pensioners and teens without driving licences who were otherwise stuck in their homes.

Perhaps, becoming President of the Los Angeles Lakers was a life-long ambition.

Under Geely, Volvo has fulfilled an ages-long ambition to compete directly with the Germans.