Sentence examples for Realized an ambition from inspiring English sources

When he stepped into the thin air at the summit of power, he realized an ambition that many here have long thought unrealistic.

In 1929 he realized a longtime ambition by establishing the Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology, Orange Park, Fla.

Wyman noted that it "realized a cherished ambition [of Jones] to put blues music at the top of the charts, and meant his guilt of having 'sold out' completely to pop fame was diminished".

By the end of the '80s, I was in an emotional deep-freeze that I didn't start coming out of -- didn't even know I was in -- until the late '90s when I realized a childhood ambition and finally started teaching while in grad school.

In Buffalo he realized an even grander ambition, creating a vast network of parks and parkways that he hoped would have "a civilizing effect" on the "dangerous classes" populating the American city.

The Live Oak Friends Meeting House was an opportunity to realize an important ambition for the artist -- integrating his art with his faith through the design of a working place of worship.

Bianca Jagger's efforts to realize a similar ambition apparently failed.

Behind her scientific success, however, is a difficult journey to realize a childhood ambition.

The result on today's Wilshire is a lurching, piecemeal utopianism that can take you from a world-famous piece of architecture to a weed-choked lot, from a realized ambition to an abandoned one, in the space of a few blocks.

EXCHANGE ALLEY At 43, Paul Gerard is about to realize a 30-year ambition.

The decision also promises to open the way for Brazil to realize a long-held ambition: to export its low-cost versions of AIDS drugs to countries without the resources to produce their own.