Sentence examples for ambitious classes from inspiring English sources

They point to parents' interest in rigorous-sounding coursework for their children, and to administrators' vanity in offering ambitious classes.

In 2002, voters passed one of the nation's most ambitious class-size reduction plans, over the objections of Mr. Bush.

Mr. de La Lombana, for example, also plays Lorenzo Daza, Fermina's ambitious, class-conscious father, who forbids his daughter to have anything to do with her passionate and poor suitor; Florentino's striving hits rather too close to home for this self-made man.

For middle-class or ambitious working-class kids, it seems counterintuitive to tell their parents: I don't want to go to college.

For middle-class or ambitious working-class kids, it seems counterintuitive to tell their parents: I don't want to go to university.

It also tells us nothing of his family background (ambitious, middle-class, small-town Republican) and doesn't explore in any depth the nature of the mathematical work.

On the contrary, he was an intensely ambitious middle-class boy (the family owned a brownstone in Brooklyn's chichi Boerum Hill; his father drove a Mercedes) who knew his art history – and was especially sensitive to the complex absence/presence of blackness in western art.

She was the voice of the ambitious middle class.

Though the city was bustling, and had a culturally ambitious middle class, its prosperity was fading.

An ambitious middle-class Soviet kid, Khodorkovsky began buying and selling in the late 1980s.

Ambitious middle-class parents, by contrast, are happy to give their first preference to the best local state school.