Sentence examples for ambitious over from inspiring English sources

"These targets have become significantly less ambitious over time".

But they grew more ambitious over time, eventually reaching 100percentt in the 2013-2014 school year.

Instead, with Greece's financial crisis, he is in a battle to save them, wondering whether he was too ambitious over the years.

The ratchet mechanism is designed to push countries to become more ambitious over time, setting in place stocktakes, reviews and deadlines for new targets.

"I especially understand the message of the young, anxious and ambitious over their own future and that of country," it said.

The Paris Agreement is a milestone of the ongoing UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is committed to ongoing annual meetings to regularly revisit and ratchet up nations' climate goals, making them more ambitious over time.

When companies plan wildly ambitious, over-the-top headquarters, it is sometimes a sign of imperial hubris.

The Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, is staying in Athens to oversee the start of an ambitious (over-ambitious, say some) privatisation programme that he hopes will stave off bankruptcy.

"Will he turn out," McCarthy asked recently of the French writer Jean-Philippe Toussaint, "to have been deconstructing literary sentimentalism or sentimentalising literary deconstruction?" It's a sign of his writerly horse sense that this skilfully realised, ambitious, over-literary book finds the time to leave a similar question hanging.

At 820 pages, Patrick McGilligan's Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane (Harper) is another big book on an ambitious over-achiever (or was Welles an underachiever)?

It may be that I would care less about the pedestrian material in this over-ambitious, over-blown piece in a performance that sizzled across the board, filled with singing actors capable of rising far above the material to make something real and affecting out of it.