Sentence examples for ambitions to spread from inspiring English sources

Writing in the British newspaper The Observer in July, Peter Beaumont noted that Qatar's "huge ambitions to spread influence around the globe were fueled by enormous wealth and devotion to a strict interpretation of the Koran".

China supported Tanzania after it emerged as a new state in the 1960s, and in the 1970s China helped build a railway line that linked Tanzania to Zambia, a project that came to symbolize Mao's ambitions to spread his revolutionary fervor to Africa.

Since Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the establishment of a caliphate from the city in June 2014, Mosul has been central to the group's ambitions to spread its ruthless interpretation of Islamic law throughout the Arab world and beyond.

The ambition to spread democracy is noble and just.

Others have a grander ambition, to spread Christianity in the North.

Now, with Rajasthan green, it was his ambition to spread his techniques across the world.

But France, which shares Brown's atomic ambition to spread nuclear power worldwide, got in first in nuclear collaboration with Iran.

Speaking in 2006 on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, Cameron caused great offence in the US when he said: The ambition to spread democracy is noble and just.

Strangely enough, dozens of soldiers from elite Brazilian military units, as well as members of special operations forces from around the world, vie each year for coveted spots in the courses at the center, which is emerging as a cornerstone of Brazil's ambition to spread its influence into parts of the developing world, especially in Latin America and Africa.

Within the same year, 1789, both the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the American Bill of Rights were drafted.Above all, each nation believed in the universalism of its model the Americans stressing liberty, the French civilisation and shared an ambition to spread it abroad.

Abroad, Xi makes no secret of his desire for China's voice to be heard more clearly on the world stage: His assertion of maritime territorial claims in the South China Sea and his ambition to spread Chinese influence through his country's global Belt and Road investments are just two examples of a more confident, assertive nation.