Sentence examples for ambition to reshape from inspiring English sources

The Dome By the time we reach the Gasometer, Prix's ambition to reshape the face of Vienna no longer seems far-fetched.

We learn, too, about the Seattle fire's effects, seeing melted and fused artifacts, and how the destruction led to an ambition to reshape the city, which grew rapidly in the 1890s during the Yukon Gold Rush.

UK Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude and Chris Tremain, New Zealand's minister of internal affairs, wrote this year of their shared ambition to reshape public services around digital technology, and how the two countries were helping each other.

Today continental-scale empires like the United States, China and Brazil combine large populations with the financial resources and ambition to reshape foreign structures to suit their economic and strategic goals.

Though in the beginning he exhibited a disdain for international institutions and treaties and took some tentative swipes at Russia, China and the axis of evil, there was little to suggest that the early Bush harbored an ambition to reshape the world, or for that matter had much real interest in foreign affairs.

Founded in 2009 by four graduate students in economics at MIT and Harvard, GiveDirectly has big ambitions to reshape international giving.

Mr. Macron's mea culpa on national television signaled a remarkable step back from his ambitions to reshape France's economy and become the European Union's foremost leader.

Timidity about how to cut spending is less of a problem than their leader's vaulting ambitions to reshape British capitalism, just when voters have lost faith in the ability of experts of all sorts to improve anything.

Now it's clear that Zuckerberg's ambitions to reshape the world through politics are even grander than would fit in a two-year term.

Speaking in Brussels last month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized "powerful countries and actors whose ambition is to reshape the international order in [their] own illiberal image". Pompeo was targeting American adversaries such as Russia and China, revisionist powers trying to overturn the international liberal order constructed and sustained by the United States.

She argues that the most underappreciated element of Mr Xi's ambition is "his effort to reshape norms and institutions on the global stage in ways that more closely reflect Chinese values and priorities".