Sentence examples for competing ambitions from inspiring English sources

Just as Al Gore hits town to party, the trellis of competing ambitions and interlocking needs and dueling grievances has left everyone exhausted.

At every junction of this roaring A-road sprouts a steroidal tower, each clad in ever more lurid colours, transforming the street into a gauntlet of competing ambitions.

He is meticulously reshaping the roster, now the N.F.L.'s third youngest, and balancing the sometimes competing ambitions of the present and the future.

But his party never seriously threatened the African National Congress's grip on power and it failed to reconcile the competing ambitions of its leaders.

By comparison, the spats between Mr Blair and Mr Brown, although exhaustively chronicled, have more to do with competing ambitions than with the kind of policy differences that registers with voters.

He inspired little enthusiasm and yet his divided opponents failed to get enough votes in the first round to force a run-off.Previous attempts by opposition parties to work together have been undone by the competing ambitions of their leaders.

I'd better explain: last week, as Labour's two female candidates negotiated a way between their shared goal (to give the Labour Party its first elected female leader) and their competing personal ambitions (to be that leader), two other women in the public eye were also testing the limits of female solidarity.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that at times these various interest groups work well together, but competing interests and ambitions also can come to the fore.

Yet, integrative thinking and action often remain problematic due to the competing interests and ambitions involved in coastal zone planning and management and the legacy of established development on the coast.

And Gilbert Blythe, because he was the romantic ideal and a feminist, in his way — always respecting Anne's intellect and ambitions, competing with her and admiring her academically — was an encouraging example of what teenagerdom and a loving gaze might have in store.

And Gilbert Blythe, because he was the romantic ideal and a feminist, in his way always respecting Anne's intellect and ambitions, competing with her and admiring her academically was an encouraging example of what teenagerdom and a loving gaze might have in store.