The phrase "competitive ambition" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used to refer to an intense desire to succeed or to be better than others in a particular pursuit. For example: "He had a competitive ambition that was unrivaled among his peers, and it eventually led him to the top of his field."
In short, the musician's life is about pure competitive ambition — the concert band and the exposure it provides — and nothing else.
But along with success came inquiries, and beyond his competitive ambition, the bonus attraction of being a head coach in college was the possibility of working with his brother.
Becoming a conductor is an extremely competitive ambition to begin with; but I would attribute some of my success to the fact that I never interpreted any rejections as gender based, even if I could have done so.
In the face of Asia and South America, implacably ascending their development curves to middle-class prosperity, don't we need more edgy dissatisfaction and nervy, competitive ambition on these islands – and indeed, this continent – not less?
She plays at being a terrible influence — drinking, sex, swearing, hard nights at the club — but the furtive surprise at the center of her project is sweetness, as it always was. "Warrior" (RCA), her second full-length album, contains a very nonlethal competitive ambition.
So, she decided to create a brand with these sports at its core, a brand that would serve women's sartorial sensibilities and competitive ambitions.
The chief grumble from the "challenger" banks – the likes of Metro Bank – is that their competitive ambitions are constrained by the need to hold disproportionate amounts of capital.
He has been taking it for 20 years, he said, with a prescription from a doctor — a practice common among aging men, even those with no competitive ambitions, to combat naturally falling levels of the hormone.
But Santogold brings her own fixations to the ultralean new wave, reggae and electro tracks: notably the competitive ambitions of an artist who declares herself unstoppable and sets out to prove it.
However, of the teams that opened the season among the top 10 in payroll, more teams missed the playoffs than made them, and two – the San Francisco Giants and Toronto Blue Jays – appear poised to cut back on spending and join the wave of teams that turn to young players and scale back competitive ambitions for a year or two.
I can honestly say I have no idea". I'm inclined towards the view that although the theatre world is fiercely competitive, such unabashed ambition is frowned upon, and Kelly has become a casualty of the growing antipathy towards a government that has tried to hijack the arts for its own purposes.
