Sentence examples for certain ambitions from inspiring English sources

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.

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).

"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.

Video game dungeons, architecture, and flashing pixels all inform artist Peter Burr's new exhibition Pattern Language, named after architect Christopher Alexander's design method which Burr explains as "describing the aliveness of certain human ambitions through an index of structural patterns".

She writes about accepting her limitations ― that she would never be the hot, laid-back girlfriend past men wanted her to be, that certain artistic ambitions of hers would not make her rich and famous ― and for all that, she's built a successful creative career and is married with children.