Sentence examples for ambition of explaining from inspiring English sources

Shaun Nichols (2004) shares the Humean ambition of explaining moral thought without assuming an innate moral capacity or sense.

The same holds all the more for whether anything of Aristotle's ambition of explaining pleasure's value by some more basic value in living (as on his view, by the ultimately worthwhile activity of cognitive life capacities) may be filled out in a more modern and scientific way.

Then, by way of explaining the upgrading of his ambitions, Bush said to Robison, "I believe I'm supposed to" seek the White House.

Slaughter writes, "I would hope to see commencement speeches that finger American's social and business policies, rather than women's level of ambition, in explaining the dearth of women at the top".

That lack of ambition helps explain the crazy-quilt career he has stitched together over the years, ricocheting from highbrow assignments to low in movies as varied as Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs," Terry Gilliam's "Time Bandits" and Wes Craven's "Scream 2".

Measuring the speed of the neutrinos was only a side ambition, explained Antonio Ereditato of the University of Bern, the head of the Opera collaboration.

"It's sort of a lifelong ambition," Mr. Foster explained to reporters.

It is that same ambition that explains the recent wave of deals by other Internet companies.

That's the sort of ambition that might explain the costumes in the ice-dancing competition last night: the Russians were dressed for a trip to outer space.

This ambition also explains Mr Gandhi's single recent policy statement.

He abandoned his presidential ambitions in January 1999, explaining that an old wrestling injury made it impossible for him to endure the physical challenges of a national campaign.