Sentence examples for ambition of placing from inspiring English sources

He is reborn after 400 years and fulfils his ambition of placing her on the throne by making her a Chief Minister or a popular social worker like Medha Patkar.

Mr. Bush should tell his Nigerian guest in no uncertain terms that the United States will not support his deplorable goal of placing his personal ambitions ahead of his nation's interests.

Part of his ambition in placing Marx within his 19th-century milieu is to allow us to understand a man in his times, but also distance him from present controversies about globalisation and capitalism.

Walking past the back of 1 East End Avenue, there is a still a whiff of the ambition of the place.

Laurent Blanc faced a dilemma over whether to recall the fit again midfielder Yann M'Vila in place of Alou Diarra, who didn't put a pass (most of which were of limited ambition) out of place against England.

It was a poorer town then, a harder one, but still a place of vaulting ambition, of indelible beauty.

Unlikely as it seemed only a few months ago, when Novak Djokovic was grinding the rest of tennis underfoot, Roger Federer entertains realistic ambitions of reclaiming his place as world No1 by the summer.

This imposing 28-story monument to Soviet ambition would not be out of place in the fictional Gotham City.

And everywhere I went on the island, I would run into another person from the States who had gone for a visit, abandoned all sense of ambition, bought a place and stayed.

This place is amazing in terms of the sheer scale of ambition of companies and people here.

Ferrante's 1950s Naples is a chaotic mire of sweat and stymied ambition – a place her characters all struggle to escape.