Sentence examples for ambitious figures from inspiring English sources
From his days as a law student in Melbourne in the 1970s, Mr Costello is remembered as one of the most politically ambitious figures of his generation.
Keith later wrote that the "most pregnant interviews" he had around this time "were with Mr Lloyd George and Mr Bonar Law" – two ambitious figures unhappy with Asquith.
Together, they reveal the workings of the shadowy court of one of China's leaders, and of the panic that set in when these ambitious figures realized their world was about to collapse.
As one of the more affable and ambitious figures on the circuit, it's no surprise that Lennon has hosted such on-point acts as Jacques Greene and Mister Saturday Night at his occasional Labour Of Love parties in London and Manchester.
He is a driven, ambitious figure who has never looked back since making his screen debut in the sitcom Desmonds, aged eight.
Ek announced in April that he was targeting a turnover of $887m this year – an ambitious figure after hitting $250m last year, leading to a $59m net loss.
However, the UK government deserves credit for having pushed for a more ambitious figure in the run-up to today's announcement.
More so than his ambitious figure paintings, such works as The River (1868) or The Beach at Sainte-Adresse (1867) give a clear accounting of Monet's advance toward the Impressionist style.
Betrand, an ambitious figure in Sarkozy's Les Républicains party, is allied to the rightwing mayor of Calais, Natacha Bouchart, who Gest felt had taken "deeply stigmatising" measures against migrants such as preventing them from visiting the local pool or multimedia library.
Giffords's election in 2006 to the House of Representatives as only the third woman in Arizona's history to be elected to serve in Congress – and the state's first Jewish Congresswoman – marked her out as an ambitious figure to watch.
The first season of the HBO series is an account of tech pubescence, that time of life when programmers, gawky but ambitious, figure out how to wield their power or prowess.
