Sentence examples similar to ambitious for control from inspiring English sources

His issuing of the arrest warrant carries the risk that it will make him appear to be an ambitious politician angling for control of a potentially popular public institution as it takes up cases against Mr. Hussein's circle.

But Darren Aronofsky's Noah looks to be running into trouble after it emerged that the American auteur director of Black Swan and The Wrestler is embroiled in a fight for control of his ambitious new film with studio Paramount.

Ambitious young men like Smash jockeyed for control of lucrative sales turf that, once obtained, was defended by force of arms.

"I assume the president has a more ambitious arms control agenda for his second term," said Steven Pifer, a veteran State Department and National Security Council staffer who is now director of the arms control initiative at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution think tank in Washington.

It is more likely he would argue for a more ambitious arms control agreement he could put his own name to.

The ambitious brucellosis control programme (free for farmers) seemed to awaken interest from farmers to start goat husbandry and form groups.

Earlier in the week, he laid out an ambitious arms control agenda with Russia for achieving substantial nuclear reductions.

In the Netherlands an ambitious scrapie control programme was started in 1998, based on genetic selection of animals for breeding.

Hunter-gatherers are no angels, but the structural constraints of their economic system renders it impossible for an ambitious male to control all of a band's wealth and support dozens of wives.

"I'm ambitious for my business but I like the idea of having some control," she says.

This lead to the concepts of mucosal healing and deep remission gaining acceptance as the more desired goals for therapy within an ambitious disease-control therapeutic approach, namely, treat-to-target strategy.