Sentence examples for ambition to check from inspiring English sources

The framers anticipated some of this back and forth, but they wanted ambition to check ambition, and so they also provided a means to keep the naysayers from blocking the policy of the political party that achieved majority approval at the last election.

Louis's endless series of foreign wars, designed to advance his dynastic ambitions and to check the power of Protestant countries like Britain and Holland, had cost several fortunes.

Sooner or later, I wrote, I would've had to admit that in the blaze of my ambition I'd failed to check myself.

Once a certain ambition is set, it is easy to check whether the plan has delivered the expected level of sustainability.

The kingdom used all available means to try to check Nasser's ambitions — but it did not send troops.

Most scholars see no factual truth in the further tradition that Cincinnatus was given a second dictatorship in 439 to check the monarchical ambitions of Spurius Maelius.

The Eastern Partnership scheme was set up in 2009 in response to Russian actions in Georgia and was meant to check Russia's ambitions in what Moscow regards as its "near abroad", while offering the vaguest of suggestions of future EU membership.

Later, they were decisively defeated at the Tegea and Nabis was forced to check his expansionist ambitions for the time.

The company's certainly got the ambitions to match the big check Shasta and co. recently cut.

Coming a day after President Obama announced a revised missile defense system that aims to check Iran's military ambitions, the rallies underscored the continuing vitality of the domestic opposition movement, which has rejected the election as fraudulent and fiercely criticized the violence that followed it.

The key for Mr Obama will be to check Iran's nuclear ambitions without resorting to military force, Mr Sadjadpour says.