Sentence examples for an ambitious state from inspiring English sources

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.

So while they might have little or no value for a terrorist with no atomic experience, the plans might prove quite helpful for an ambitious state intent on building a nuclear arsenal.

Gov. George E. Pataki yesterday announced an ambitious state program for reducing greenhouse gases, including a controversial recommendation to lower carbon dioxide emissions from smokestacks to 25percentt below 1990 levels during the next seven years.

On the Republican side, one potential candidate after the other has taken a pass — the popular governor, his lieutenant governor, two congressmen and an ambitious state senator who said that he is not willing to have his life turned upside down.

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 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.

The Green Scheme is an ambitious state-driven initiative aimed at significantly boosting irrigated crop production in the country.

That dramatic decrease has been a particular problem in California, where an ambitious state-subsidized recycling program has led to about 4 out of 5 drink bottles being recycled — double the national average, according to the California-based Container Recycling Institute.