My main ambition was to be an actor.
Whatever its primary ambition, Live Mansion represents the marketing world's growing fascination with audience empowerment.
"I want to get rid of the combustion engine," John McKibben, an activist from Vermont, declared as his primary ambition.
In any given year at the fringe, there'll be young male standups whose primary ambition, visually, is look a bit puppyish and keep Russell Howard's fans onside.
The program of the Quiet Revolution, certainly not as straightforward at the time as it appears to us today, had as its primary ambition the decolonization of Quebec on three fronts.
He had already turned down his alma mater, Michigan State, and, according to Leland, "would have been out of here a long time ago" if money were his primary ambition.
Throughout the 60s Keillor's primary ambition was to write, but it was radio that first provided him with an income, although he saw the work as "a fallback, something anybody could do and get paid for".
In straightforward prose, Lightman tells the story of a divorced and childless forty-two-year-old man whose primary ambition has been to "understand the world," rather than change it.
The witty responsiveness necessary to a full experience of the book is doubtless more likely to turn up in urban readers than elsewhere; a primary ambition of the work seems to be, in fact, to teach its audience how to understand - i.e., how to inhabit to some purpose and with some joy - a great city.
Already, by the close of the first day, New Zealand, at 250 for one, had the solid foundations of a draw and thus a drawn series that one suspects has been the primary ambition since the first two matches ended in stalemate, with anything beyond that a bonus.
