Sentence examples for ambitious street from inspiring English sources

One sees the logic: Lucky Luciano and Al Capone weren't ambitious street kids who chose bootlegging as a business, and were then compelled to become gangsters to pursue it, as in "Boardwalk Empire".

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The ambitious street art tome sets out to become the definitive reference guide on international street art, covering artists hiding in all corners of the globe.

The statue is credited to the anonymous art collective INDECLINE, which brings a punk-rock ethos to ambitious street installations that are filmed and disseminated on social media to ensure their messages last long after the art is removed. .

While the day-to-day here in Beijing feels much like living in a capitalist society -- from the brazenly ambitious street vendors competing for customers to the overwhelming variety of businesses promoting their services -- the 2009 Index of Economic Freedom (created by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal) ranks China in 132th place, out of the 179 countries studied.

Right through the novel, there's a tension between Rebus, who believes that the explanation to the death of the poet lies in what Hillary Clinton once called "a vast conspiracy", and Todd Goodyear, an ambitious street-cop on attachment to CID, who argues that the explanation is simple and unlinked to any other murder or person.

The actor Dirk Bogarde, who shared a dressing room with him, remembered "a rough-haired, scatty boy, blindingly ambitious, streets ahead of anything I'd ever come across... he scared the shit out of me".

Indeed, after an exceptionally ambitious Wall Street debut in May, Facebook's slowing sales growth has come as a rude shock to some of its new public investors.

International catwalk shows are usually reserved for rarefied designer brands such as Dior, Chanel and Givenchy, but in recent years ambitious high street brands have started to take advantage of these fashion summits which draw the gaze of the world's media.

Daniel, having "all his life... been in love with black women — Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday, Irma Thomas, Ivie Anderson, Ella Fitzgerald, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith," quickly seduces Iris, who feels underappreciated in her marriage to an ambitious Wall Street investment banker and who has doubts about her own intelligence and worth.

In this, LaBeouf played an ambitious Wall Street trader.