Sentence examples for ambitious to establish from inspiring English sources

It is ambitious to establish itself as a dominant armed group in the region, making guerrilla attacks on French troops across the Sahel.

But its true purpose is more ambitious: to establish a consensus on future pensions provision, and particularly on second pensions on top of the basic state pension.The review team, which will include both outsiders and government insiders, is being kept small.

Thus, our goals with this new journal, Biology Direct, are unapologetically ambitious: to establish a new, perhaps, better system of peer review and, in the process, bolster productive scientific debate, and provide scientists with useful guides to the literature.

Further, four energy companies recently launched an ambitious plan to establish a rapid-response system to protect the Gulf of Mexico.

George H.W. Bush launched the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative (EAI), an ambitious project to establish a free-trade area stretching from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.

Again, the expulsion was a negative achievement; more ambitious plans to establish a state university system and a state welfare organization failed.

Ivanhoe, Sullivan's most important work without Gilbert, was an ambitious attempt to establish an English operatic tradition that would rival those of continental Europe.

But his maverick contributions to 20th-century Modernism have begun to be recognized, and this show is an ambitious attempt to establish a firm place for him in the history of architecture and design.

In recent years his maverick contributions to 20th-century Modernism have begun to be recognized, however, and this show is an ambitious attempt to establish a firm place for him in the history of architecture and design.

However, in January last year, Indonesia's government launched an ambitious project: to establish a compulsory national health insurance system with the aim of making basic care available to all by 2019.

It seems to me Mr Wallace-Wells has rather oversold Mr Romney's influence in a rather audaciously ambitious attempt to establish the unlikely thesis that the man most likely to run against Barack Obama in 2012 was a significant force behind America's economy becoming "less equal, less stable, and more brutal".