Sentence examples for beget overreaching ambition from inspiring English sources

Victories, however narrow, beget overreaching ambition.

Paul Murray Kendall's popular biography from 1957 took a sympathetic view of Warwick, but concluded that he had ultimately fallen victim to his own overreaching ambition.

While Spore overreached in its ambition, Darkspore is tightly focused in creating a Diablo-style dungeon crawler with tons of customisation.

This is a man of prodigious talent and energy who lets his ambitions overreach his capacity for running his huge operation.

They have the responsibility for oversight, but already they were being questioned about potential overreach in the ambitions of their investigations.

So one regulatory overreach begets another.

But he's no longer overreaching by much, and his ambition trumps professional complacency anytime.

His story is one of ambition and pride; overreaching and disaster.

Russo is brave enough to conceive a large ambition, but too smart to overreach.

"Russo is brave enough to conceive a large ambition but too smart to overreach," A. O. Scott wrote in the Book Review last year.

But perhaps this overreaching is a natural consequence of Smith's ambition.