Sentence examples for ambition over from inspiring English sources

Wong is an unusual politician – her professional success something of a triumph of ambition over temperament.

But it also allowed for mechanisms that "increased ambition over time".

That's a pretty lofty ambition: over the past few years we've actually been consuming less fruit and veg.

That it's a longer journey that we're on and we need to raise our level of ambition over time.

This is all highly intelligent stuff and frankly more realistic than I first feared when Professor Webb first mooted 'defined ambition' over a year ago.

Paradoxically, by enlarging the scale of the individual building, architects were taking a step toward contracting the scale of their ambition over entire cities.

And having attended two lengthy Third Way seminars as a member of Blair's communications team, in Washington and Florence in 1999, I can testify that the detail was copious, the scope wide-ranging and the ambition over-arching.

In reviving Chelsea, Hiddink's even greater effect may have been to inflame Abramovich's ambitions all over again.

"The address was an implicit acknowledgment that his once-grand legislative ambitions are over," writes Dana Milbank of the Washington Post.

Commission officials similarly plead European ambitions over national interests.

For one, Desso has made a huge public show of its sustainability ambitions over recent years.