Sentence examples similar to ambitious to overthrow from inspiring English sources

He knows this sacred relic would tempt any ambitious nobleman to overthrow the shogun and make himself ruler of Japan.

It's ambitious indeed to try to overthrow in one go the conventional ideas and images that have accumulated since 1874, when Francis Galton first set the words "nature" and "nurture" against each other.

The C.I.A. grew more ambitious in the 1950's, helping to overthrow leaders in Iran and Guatemala that the United States considered too leftist and replacing them with friendly dictators.

In the first part, an ambitious - but not very bright - federal undercover agent in Sacramento, California cooked up a spectacular plot to overthrow a foreign government, and then arrested immigrants he'd conned into the fringes of his plan.

That is clearly the case if you consider the ambitious goals that Obama has set for U.S. strategy: reversing the Taliban's momentum and denying it the ability to overthrow Afghanistan's government while strengthening Afghanistan's security forces and government.

They did not want to overthrow it.

But nobody wants to overthrow the government.

No overt acts designed to overthrow the Government were charged; no attempt to overthrow was charged.

Ariely is not out to overthrow rationality.

They sought to overthrow capitalist governments.

I now want to overthrow the regime".