Sentence examples for ambition of putting from inspiring English sources

His ambition of putting his name on a building in Russia persisted.

With these bold steps, he pursued Publisher Otis Chandler's ambition of putting the Los Angeles Times on the level of its more established rivals, the New York Times and the Washington Post.

I think, in general, what we've seen is that there are not very many places that have the ambition of putting people with very different points of view into conversation with each other.

Presumably pitched as a warm-hearted warning bell to the dangers of putting corporate ambition ahead of personal morality, as well as a clarion call to individuality and eccentricity, Dinner for Schmucks is in reality a mealy-mouthed collection of seemingly random acts of tomfoolery perpetrated by a sumptuous cast who are hugely let down by the screenplay's complete absence of emotional core.

When it was opened last year, the Library of Birmingham was hailed as a manifestation of an ambition to put learning at the centre of the city and regarded as a glittering symbol of civic confidence.

Buono repeatedly tried to use Christie's presidential ambitions against him, accusing him of putting his interests ahead of New Jersey's.

Responding to George Osborne's budget statement on Wednesday she also accused the chancellor of putting his personal ambitions to become prime minister at the heart of the budget.

Mightn't Lammy, who declared early and began campaigning straight away, be accused of putting his personal ambitions before those of his party?

Citing unnamed sources, James Delingpole, a London-based columnist and hard-line skeptic of climate science, accused Pruitt of putting his political ambitions ahead of his promise to "take on the Green Blob".

'Part of my ambition in putting together the work for that show was to make people rethink me,' Teller, dressed in his trademark denims and scuffed Converse sneakers, tells me in the kitchen-cum-living room of his studio near Ladbroke Grove in west London.

There's a "joining system" modeled on clams with ambitions to put bolts, screws and nails out of business.