Sentence examples for ambition to break from inspiring English sources

"I had a burning ambition to break through and be famous in England and America.

The Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction has also announced a new ambition – to break America and become "the leading non-fiction book prize in the world".

The Rembrandt show will be the first in-depth exploration of Rembrandt's late works, a time when his creativity and ambition to break conventions burned brighter than ever.

Mr. Smith was impressed by the young man's game, but more than that, he was moved by Mr. Awet's burning ambition to break out of his hermetically sealed world.

Mr. Castro, a towering figure in Brazil's art scene, gained prominence in the postwar period when Brazilian sculptors, painters and architects were imbued with ambition to break away from the grip of European artistic traditions.

At the moment two glaring instances of the ambition to break through the frame are visible in Chelsea Matthew Ritchiee's show at Andrea Rosen and Fabian Marcaccio's at Gorney Bravin & Lee.

Now, in 2014, it has a new chief executive and renewed ambitions to break out of its niche.

"We have ambitions to break into the top six of the Premiership and then the top four, so the final is a stepping stone to that.

The technology giant has long had ambitions to break into TV and recently announced an exclusive deal with HBO, home of Game of Thrones.

Then Susie Rushton wrote in this newspaper earlier this week of HBC: "That she has been lucky is true: not lucky to have won the best roles, but to have been born into privilege and wealth, into a feather bed of security that most young people with ambitions to break into the unpredictable acting profession do not have".

Small titles with lofty ambitions to break the trend have come and gone in Britain, but The White Review, a sumptuous, cream-colored journal that mixes interviews, essays, fiction and artwork by up-and-coming writers and artists, might just contain the youthful wherewithal to stick it out.