Sentence examples for apparent ambition from inspiring English sources

His apparent ambition: to span the whole 20th century in blandly adequate novels so fat that they're hard to hoist.

The letter terminating the Marienstrasse lease was also signed by the third missing man, Zakariya Essabar, a 24-year-old Moroccan, whose apparent ambition to perish in the September attacks was also thwarted.

If "Buffalo Soldiers" were a better movie -- and made good on its apparent ambition to join the nihilists-in-uniform tradition of Mike Nichols's "Catch-22" and Robert Altman's "MASH" -- then there might be something to argue about.

More recently, the governments in Kenya and Tanzania, hitherto Mr Museveni's most vital allies, may be tiring of his increasingly autocratic ways and of his apparent ambition to become president of a resuscitated East African federation.A recent opinion poll suggests that Mr Museveni is in the lead but might not win the half of the votes needed to avoid a run-off.

The Galaxy have been the dominant team of the designated player era, and while the Red Bulls have got results against them in that time, it has generally been through winning by the odd goal against the run of play, with an apparent ambition of hanging in in hope of that outcome.

Mohun travelled to Africa via Belgium, the European colonial overlord of the Congo, where he met King Leopold II who, in spite of his callous reputation, impressed Mohun with his apparent ambition to bring peace and western civilization to the Congo.

The apparent ambitions of outfits like Google and Amazon make John D Rockefeller look like a conniving child.

There is talk that France, Russia and China might, in effect, be forming a coalition to counter the apparent ambitions of the world's sole superpower, the United States.

The people in this film, neither rich nor poor, work hard but have no apparent ambitions, no children, no ideas, no obligations that we can see except to one another.

In fact it was designed to explain why Mr Medvedev, a young politician in good health with apparent ambitions to stay on in the Kremlin, had stepped aside.In Mr Putin's Russia it is informal arrangements, rather than such formalities as elections, that carry weight.

Unlike Mr. Gore, whose aides supported wide-ranging initiatives, from the environment to reinventing government to relations with Russia, that had the effect of keeping the vice president in the public eye for his eventual run for the presidency, Mr. Cheney has no apparent ambitions for higher office.