Sentence examples for ambitious officials from inspiring English sources

The leaders in Beijing sometimes struggle to impose their will on ambitious officials in the hinterland.

That set off a stampede by other ambitious officials eager to lay claim to various patches of cyberspace.

The diplomatic cables, professionally drafted by ambitious officials eager to display their sharp minds and silver pens, are more compelling and revealing.It would be an exaggeration to say that diplomacy will never be the same again.

But the number of patients to be covered in the first year -- 10,000 -- was scaled back from the initial figure of 15,000, which was thought to be too ambitious, officials said.

Going beyond their aides' most ambitious recommendation, officials said, senior officials proposed immediately buying 30 of the helicopters they had once rejected, the Sikorsky UH-60L Blackhawk, at a cost of almost $400 million.

The word was that some disgruntled and ambitious former officials had schemed to get rid of Turkmenbashi.

Fearing inequality and social unrest, China's national government has struggled to rein in soaring property prices and stem the threat of inflation, even as ambitious local officials continue to draw up blueprints for new megacities.

Ambitious local officials, together with state-owned companies and state-owned banks, stand behind most of these projects, raising fears that taxpayers may eventually pick up the bill if projects prove uneconomical.

As the Yujiapu project makes clear, Mr. Zhang has been a defender of huge government-guided investments, an approach that very much fits the mold of ambitious party officials eager to get ahead within the existing power structure.

We need something political," an ambitious Bosnian official points out.

But at least in Gaza, Hamas appears to have the sympathy of typical Palestinians, presenting a quandary for any ambitious Palestinian official.