Sentence examples for ambition for that from inspiring English sources

My ex's ambition for that down-home life was odd to me, because his family was not working class by any means.

"Appearing on the show was the fulfillment of a lifelong ambition for that lady," Trebek said, before offering his sincere condolences on behalf of the entire show. .

But the west suspects that Tehran, especially Jafari's elite forces, might still have or once had military ambitions for that programme.

Sherman did not run for president again after 1888, and so Hanna could support McKinley's ambitions for that office wholeheartedly.

That is raw, unrestrained ambition for power that cannot accept the will of the voters.

In planning my programme for the next four years, I have one burning ambition for London that will guide every decision I make – ensuring that all Londoners can have the same opportunities to get on in life that London gave me.

But, at times, some of these scandals seem to be driven by the ambition for superlatives that has given China the world's largest shopping malls and bridges and the like.

At the time Oakey was working as a hospital porter in a plastic-surgery theatre and had no musical ambitions "or any ambitions whatsoever, for that matter", but it was his combination of height, eyeliner and lop-sided hairstyle that went on to give the 1980s one of its most enduring images.

Yet it also provokes the thought that Richard Powers is such a good novelist good at dialogue, good at rendering the dramatic, fine-grained reality of a human situation that perhaps he should take the risk of writing a book that does not find a kind of safety in hierarchically approved notions of ambition or, for that matter, brains.

He testified last month that the defendants had ambitions for attacks that included possibly buying Stinger missiles to shoot down commercial airplanes.

Do you think that Franks has similar political ambitions, or, for that matter, political abilities?