Sentence examples for ambition occurred from inspiring English sources

His nearest approach to this ambition occurred at Johns Hopkins University, where he held a lectureship in logic from 1879 to 1884 while retaining his position in the Survey.

"And by the end it was: 'Can we be the next marketplace, the next eBay?' " Part of this exponential increase in ambition occurred when the founders showed Altman, who was then an unpaid mentor and fund-raising expert at YC, a slide deck they hoped would secure a five-hundred-thousand-dollar round of seed, or initial, funding.

The board took an unusual step to try to prevent the agency from getting mired in its former nuclear ambitions, as occurred in the 1980s when the T.V.A. set out to build 17 reactors but finished only 5. The board amended its staff's plan and voted not to resume construction on Bellefonte until after another stop-and-start reactor project, Watts Bar 2, was up and running in Tennessee.

It's an ambition that would not have occurred to him two years ago when his results slip showed just three GCSE passes.

I had more ambition than knowledge but it never occurred to me that I wouldn't succeed.

If there was another meaning to be found in Tina Brown's naming her first American cover "Blonde Ambition," it does not seem to have occurred to Tina Brown.

In addition to providing a narrative of events as they occurred, she wrote about her feelings, beliefs, and ambitions, subjects she felt she could not discuss with anyone.

In retrospect, though progress seemed agonisingly protracted and uncertain, Crick and Watson's breakthrough occurred at warp speed, driven by "the American's" obsessive ambition.

As I watched them, it occurred to me that Williams is a contemporary, extreme-sports version of Ernest Hemingway, without the literary ambitions.

The controversy occurred when the Protestant Swiss canton of Grisons invoked a treaty of protection with France against Spanish ambitions in the Valtellina valley.

Both trips to the early primary state prompted speculation about his political ambitions, with the latter occurring as he was being vetted by the Romney campaign.