Sentence examples similar to contending ambitions from inspiring English sources
By the second novel, seven-year-old Titus is contending with the ambitions of kitchen boy Steerpike – "limb by limb, it appeared that he was sound enough, but the sum of these several members accrued to an unexpectedly twisted total" - as he begins to take on the mantle of the ruler of Gormenghast: "What do I care for the symbolism of it all?
Her characters are mostly middle-class women contending with unhappy marriages, frustrated love affairs, strong-willed children, stifled ambition, sexual ambiguity.
The authors contend that China's ambitions in Africa are grandly geopolitical as well as economic.
He has not needed to manipulate China's Taiwan policy to serve his political ambitions and contend with the competition.
Granted, Airbnb is still lacking in the transportation search department, but as it continues to grow it's likely we'll see some of these smaller companies or products consolidate to contend with Airbnb's ambitions to own the travel experience.
The breakdown of centralized authority within the Delhi sultanate and the consequent rise of provincial kingdoms meant that new rivalries could develop on a regional basis, and the Bahmanī sultans found themselves contending with two of the successor states of the Delhi sultanate in an arena where their expansionist ambitions had some chance of success.
Ambition and self-determination are prevailing themes: for these women, pursuing those aims in the 1970s could be brutal, especially when contending with adolescent hormones.
How is she contending the order?
The country's forbidding landscape of deserts and mountains has laid many imperial ambitions to rest, as has the tireless resistance of its fiercely independent peoples so independent that the country has failed to coalesce into a nation but has instead long endured as a patchwork of contending ethnic factions and ever-shifting alliances.
