Sentence examples for ambition on which from inspiring English sources

They taught us to have dreams and ambition, on which we'll build a future.

In a work of Wagnerian ambition on which he spent all of 20 years, Enescu chose to tackle the entire Oedipus story, from his birth amid dire prophecies, to his death and (in this version) redemption in Colonnus.

Which either counts as good business, or lack of ambition, depending on which side of the fence you sit.

For most of the rest of his life, until becoming debilitated by illness and then dying in 2002, he worked as fervently as ever, drawing circles and triangles on plans of huge ambition, to which the rest of the world paid less and less attention.

With Republicans favored to keep their majority in the House, much of the success of a Romney administration's ambitions will turn on which party controls the Senate.

The buildings became a mark of their wealth and power, and of the ambition to build an empire on which the sun would never set.

The words rise, but to no effect, like the blinded dove mentioned in Francis Bacon's essay on ambition which "mounts and mounts, because he cannot see about him".

She seemed to address her own ambition on "Gimme Sympathy," which hinged on this refrain: "We're so close/To something better left unknown".

But more often than not, "The Tempest" has been a dramatic island on which musical ambitions have been shipwrecked as surely as the denizens of the Neapolitan court.

These ambitions reflect the progressive mandate on which Mr. Modi was elected, and should be welcomed by the international business community.

But, on a deeper level, I was struggling with adapting to college and with my inchoate ambitions, for which I had not yet found a productive outlet.