Sentence examples for avowed ambition from inspiring English sources

It doesn't quite live up to its avowed ambition to update the "fête champêtre" so memorably realized in paintings by Giorgione and Manet.

When he opened the Paris showroom in October 2009, with an avowed ambition to bring Italy's modern and contemporary artists to the international market, Fontana was the artist he chose for the inaugural show.

Here, though, the avowed ambition to "confront the demure tropes of femininity" was followed through with the casting, which picked up where July's haute couture show left off by putting some of the clothes on men.

His avowed ambition was to graduate and work in the City, London's equivalent of Wall Street.

"There is good reason to believe that there will be real economic outcomes to match the avowed ambition of such engagement," Rahul Khullar, India's commerce secretary, wrote in an e-mailed response to questions.

Later on, in his avowed ambition to weaken the U.S. imperio and create a "multipolar world," he would go on to embrace others with similarly anti-American stances: Iran's Ahmadinejad was one, Belarus's Lukashenko was another.

Isis's extreme violence and rigorous conservative value system will alienate local communities, they argue, and their avowed ambitions will provoke a regional and international response that will eventually weaken and destroy them.

If the artist's self-avowed ambition was to surpass Claude Lorraine, he showed equal aptitude for dealing real estate, playing off patrons, and neglecting his family—his mentally disturbed mother died forgotten in an asylum.

Kaiser Chiefs never hid behind false morals where ambition was concerned; singer Ricky Wilson once memorably avowed that he would "wank off a tramp for success".

That is also France's avowed goal.

(Cohn was an avowed pinball maniac).