Sentence examples for ambitious state from inspiring English sources

The president delivers an "incredibly ambitious" State of the Union address.

A politically ambitious state attorney general, demanding a billion dollars in fines.

In his 1975 novel "Respected Sir," Mahfouz tells the story of Othman Bayyumi, an ambitious state employee who offers his life to "the sacred fires" of public service.

In 2000, when an ambitious state program to acquire environmentally sensitive land was due to expire, Bush set up another one.

In 1982, Mr. Reed, then 29, unsuccessfully ran for Congress and got to know an ambitious state senator named John Engler.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has repeatedly said that the change in the passing rates on the tests is a result of a more ambitious state goal and does not represent a decline in student achievement.

Hearts and Minds (2009) was an ambitious state-of-the-nation novel that unpicked the grimy layers of global London, using the capital as a microcosm.

Capital is an ambitious state-of-the-nation fiction with a positively Victorian breadth, dramatising many present-day obsessions, from bank meltdowns to Islamist terrorism, house prices to parking tickets.

It's a strong set, but it oscillates between ambitious state-of-the-world comedy and efforts to reassure us that – don't worry, guys – Ballard doesn't know what he's talking about and is only joking anyway.

It is the latest -- and most expensive -- addition to an ambitious state-sponsored redevelopment of Temple Bar, a previously down-and-out neighborhood on the south bank of the River Liffey.

Meanwhile, BP disposed of its stake in an Argentine oil company for $7.1 billion, which goes toward its target of raising $30 billion to help meet its financial obligations resulting from the spill.Gazprom and Royal Dutch Shell signed an agreement "to pursue broader co-operation", such as giving Russia's ambitious state-backed gas company access to Shell's upstream assets outside Russia.