Sentence examples for ambitions and influence from inspiring English sources

The United States has suffered a double blow to its ambitions and influence in postwar Iraq after losing out in two key power tussles with Iran.

Now the Obama administration has to deal with another, albeit unexpected, Bush legacy in the Middle East: a powerful Iran whose ambitions and influence threaten the current regional status quo.

The administration's apparently trusting approach puts private companies in a unique position, making the investment conference an unusually significant — and controversial — affair, testing the ambitions and influence of Mohammed, hailed by outside admirers as a reformer.

When the new terminal opened in 1956 at the city-owned airport on the site of an old balloon launching field — nearly 10 years before the Gateway Arch would be completed on the bank of the Mississippi River — it was a testament to the ambitions and influence of a city that was still the country's eighth largest.

Some Afghan officials, aware of Mr. Khalid's public criticism of Pakistan's ambitions and influence in Afghanistan, voiced suspicions that Pakistani interests may have approved of the attack — a frequent, though mostly unprovable, pattern of blame after high-profile attacks here in recent years.

Has Clinton given up on busting though that glass ceiling, or will her ambition and influence move her to run for president once again?

And in that respect, it is not unlike most of the other business organizations in the Washington region, including the Federal City Council in the District and the Greater Washington Board of Trade, whose ambition and influence have declined over the past decade.

At first, a lot of them were quite chuffed by the sight of turmoil in Iran, since they have long felt edgy about their big neighbour's rising ambition and influence in the region.

The museum is a declaration of the brothers' growing ambition and influence in the city's art scene — a bold step for the family, which has shunned the limelight in recent years (Paul Marciano would not speak for this article), following an ugly fight with investors over control of Guess in the 1980s and prolonged public criticism of the company's labor practices in the 1990s.

The protection of the small states against the ambition and influence of the larger members, could only be effected by arming them with an equal power in one branch of the legislature.

The Wilshire Center-Koreatown Neighborhood Council wrote a letter to the city opposing it on the ground that it would cause "irreparable harm" to Koreatown's commercial ambitions and cultural influence.