Sentence examples for actuated by ambition from inspiring English sources

But there is not a period in Athenian or Roman annals, when great characters did not appear actuated by ambition of another kind; an unjust and dishonorable ambition; such as Pisistratus, Themistocles, Appius Claudius, &c.; and these characters were always more popular than the others, and were supported chiefly by plebeians, not senates and patricians.

In proportion to the populousness of towns, the inhabitants are filled with notions of vanity and actuated by an ambition of distinguishing themselves by trifles.3 If they are very numerous, and most of them strangers to one another, their vanity redoubles, because there are greater hopes of success.

For, without it, such is the competitive nature of humanity, that once more than subsistence has been achieved, people are actuated by vanity and ambition, and there is a war of all against all.

Cassius was a man of considerable ability and a good soldier, but in politics he was actuated by vanity and ambition and had an uncontrollable temper and sharp tongue.

This nanopositioner is actuated by piezoelectric actuators.

Generation of swirl flow was attained by a compact parallel link actuated by three piezoelectric actuators.

Our manipulator, actuated by three piezoelectric (PZT) actuators, is a suitable tool for generating swirl flow.

Villanueva, A., Smith, C. & Priya, S. A biomimetic robotic jellyfish (Robojelly) actuated by shape memory alloy composite actuators.

The effect is like materialized music, actuated by your movement.

"The oft-repeated charge that Kissinger was actuated by self-interest," Ferguson writes, "seems unfair".

The machines are banked in tiers on a circular platform & are actuated by perforated tape.