Sentence examples for ambitious old from inspiring English sources

The future of the economy and the state of the government's public sector reforms would justifiably keep him up at night, not another ambitious old Etonian.

But it is one of the most ambitious old-media companies anywhere in its move online.

He was the family's lost soul, a playboy in his youth who was perpetually upstaged by his ambitious older brother Seif al-Islam.

When the strange child, Sundiata, is born -- he has a lion's head and a human body -- his ambitious older brother, Dankaran, despairs.

WASHINGTON — In the fall of 2007, while helping her ambitious older half-brother, Barack Obama, campaign for president, Maya Soetoro-Ng holed up in the basement of the Obamas' Chicago home to pursue a long-held ambition of her own: writing a children's book.

The developments have bolstered the view that the hard-line faction championed by Seif Qaddafi's equally ambitious older brother, Mutassim, the country's national security adviser, was gaining ground.

Randy Jackson, the good-hearted uncle, is the family's unofficial peacemaker, and Ryan Seacrest, the host, its fiercely ambitious oldest son, a golden boy engaged in an Oedipal battle with dad.

Young men tend to be fiercely committed and ambitious, but older men - even men with deeply held convictions, men admired and emulated by their followers - tend to have loves and obligations that count for more.

She was 26 years old, ambitious, beautiful, full of hope for the future.

When the show opens, her daughter, Rory, is 16 years old, ambitious and studious.

Advocates complain that the new goal, bringing the number of patients treated to 2.5 million, is not that much more ambitious than the old one.