Sentence examples for abiding ambition from inspiring English sources

The larger structure in which Dante arranged poems written over a 10-year period and the generality of his poetic language are indications of his early and abiding ambition to go beyond the practices of local poets.

For three years, it has been one of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's abiding ambitions: to transform the warehouses, factories, parking lots and railroad tracks between Pennsylvania Station and the Hudson River into a glimmering high-rise business district.

But here – in a swirl of sloppy chocolate mousse – is an abiding problem for all who seek to judge anything from gastro-ambition to literary acceptance: where do acknowledged rules of excellence chip in?

Simon Cole "Its sheer ambition was something to behold and the interweaving of the criminal and law-abiding world was fascinating.

The book explains that the former are in command of the latter and are the protectors, not opponents, of Buddhism - although the flaw of pride or ambition has caused them to fall onto the demon road, they remain the same basically good, dharma-abiding persons they were in life.

Poverty is an abiding theme.

That's one abiding memory.

A — An abiding faith.

Soaring ambition?

Her ambition?

An ambition.