Sentence examples for certain ambition from inspiring English sources

"You need a certain ambition - call it ego.

I also gained a certain ambition in life because I was very aware, growing up, of being on the periphery of the civilized, technical world.

But so far the plans seem to lack a certain ambition.

Once a certain ambition is set, it is easy to check whether the plan has delivered the expected level of sustainability.

"There's a certain ambition," he said.

Some visitors come to Adam with certain ambitions.

The show featured drawings and models by architects who, in Gill's words, share "certain ambitions in respect to expanding our conventional notion of architectural design … in a fashion that is sometimes exhilarating and sometimes exasperating".

Some may find this prospect for my country to be deserved, but even they should remember that Russia will retain certain ambitions and nuclear weapons for a long time to come.

If all the members of a management team recognize the developmental stage of their organization, they are better able to understand why certain ambitions must be curtailed while others are advanced, and why and when another need is paramount in importance.

It is true that certain ambitions that some perfect being theologians have harbored — for example, to provide an a priori argument, in the style of Anselm's ontological argument, for the existence of an absolutely perfect being — would have to be abandoned if any divine perfection is exhibited at most contingently (Guleserian 1985).

"L.A. Confidential," Hanson told The Times in 1997, was his most personal movie because Ellroy is "telling a story set in the same city that I grew up in and dovetails with certain ambitions that I've had in terms of telling an L.A. story". For Hanson, "L.A. Confidential" was a high-profile milestone in what he called "a long, long, uphill struggle" as a filmmaker.