Sentence examples for ambitious desires from inspiring English sources

Cerularius' ambitious desires for political power, coupled with his inflexible belief in the autonomy of the Eastern Church, led him to thwart Constantine's attempts to ally the Byzantine and Roman empires in defense against the Normans.

No sooner had Aldo hit the floor than Conor brought the featherweight division to a standstill, with his ambitious desires for solidifying his legacy as a double UFC title holder.

Her ambitious desire, however, to reflect the challenges, prejudices and solutions facing "brown bodies" is too much to chew.

For how did the neoconservatives propose to reconcile their ambitious desire to combat despotism around the world with their cautious aversion to social engineering?

By the nineteenth century, the dream of constructing a philosophical language capable of expressing universal truths had given way to the equally ambitious desire to unite the world through a single, easy-to-learn, politically neutral, auxiliary language.

The elements of my deception were a cell phone, the Kinko's on Astor Place, and an energetic but perhaps overly ambitious desire to get attractive women to have sex with me.

'There are issues around the IT being able to deliver.' Brown's spending plans also depend on an ambitious desire to sell off £30bn worth of public assets over the next five years.

They may not be interested in supporting Mr. Silverstein's ambitious desire to replace all of the trade center's 10 million square feet of office space and 500,000 square feet of retail space just now because of the slowing economy and potential tenants' concern about further terrorist attacks.

He is also ambitious, desiring a challenge commensurate with his abilities, but this ambition is not tempered by any consideration of the rights of others.

A man set up by his social class and education to thrive in the heart of the British establishment, Boris Johnson has long combined a talent for personable jocularity with a ruthlessly ambitious desire to say and do whatever it is that brings him more power and attention.

There was a battle raging between my introverted nature and my ambitious external desires.