Sentence examples for a certain ambition from inspiring English sources

"You need a certain ambition - call it ego.

I also gained a certain ambition in life because I was very aware, growing up, of being on the periphery of the civilized, technical world.

But so far the plans seem to lack a certain ambition.

Once a certain ambition is set, it is easy to check whether the plan has delivered the expected level of sustainability.

"There's a certain ambition," he said.

Do you need the masses every day telling you that they agree with you?" There is a certain inspired ambition to what he seems to be attempting.

Some may find this prospect for my country to be deserved, but even they should remember that Russia will retain certain ambitions and nuclear weapons for a long time to come.

Some visitors come to Adam with certain ambitions.

The show featured drawings and models by architects who, in Gill's words, share "certain ambitions in respect to expanding our conventional notion of architectural design … in a fashion that is sometimes exhilarating and sometimes exasperating".

It is true that certain ambitions that some perfect being theologians have harbored — for example, to provide an a priori argument, in the style of Anselm's ontological argument, for the existence of an absolutely perfect being — would have to be abandoned if any divine perfection is exhibited at most contingently (Guleserian 1985).

You have to have a certain amount of ambition to want to do all that.