Sentence examples for ambitious young fellow from inspiring English sources

He allowed as how "no place in the world offers a better prospect for a career to an ambitious young fellow who can deal from the bottom of the deck and is handy with a gun" than New York did.

In a remarkable passage covering her past before she met John, real life, harsh and complex, suddenly crashes into the narrative of the life of a dreamy, posy, amiably ambitious young fellow; extensive quotations from Penelope's superbly written diaries, stories and novels offer an unforgettably unsparing analysis of the man she so deeply and despairingly loved.

Wrecking laundries and small stores for not paying blackmail, adjusting labor disputes with blackjacks, general contracting in simple or felonious assault and homicide, guarding crap games and gambling houses, shooting up West Side truck thieves and loft burglars who poach on East Side jurisdiction — these and similar activities have ceased to attract ambitious young fellows.

Linda gave her ambitious young companion access to all of Europe's grandees.

Ambitious young people worldwide can apply to be "TED Fellows," and join a weeklong residency program at the mothership conferences as they launch their entrepreneurial careers.

(Lara Stein, who runs the program, noted, "We've had a TEDx event with six hundred people on a floating hotel in the middle of the Amazon forest with seven high-definition cameras"). Ambitious young people worldwide can apply to be "TED Fellows," and join a weeklong residency program at the mothership conferences as they launch their entrepreneurial careers.

First, he had ill-treated some of Pompey's important Sicilian clients, thus incurring Pompey's displeasure; next, his case coincided with the anti-Sullan reaction of 70; finally, the Sicilians succeeded in persuading Cicero an ambitious young "new man" from Arpinum hoping to imitate the success of his fellow citizen Marius by means of his rhetorical ability to undertake the prosecution.

The brainy and ambitious young student had arrived in Paris for school in early September, a friend and fellow exchange student told The Daily Beast.

High praise for an ambitious young reporter.

This young fellow walks off the elevator.

Abraham Lincoln was another ambitious young striver.