Sentence examples for dangerous ambition from inspiring English sources

Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson, New Women in Search of Love and Power.

That is an increasingly dangerous ambition in Brazil where, according to a recent report by Global Witness, more environmental and land-rights campaigners have been killed than the rest of the world put together.

[I]t will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty... and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.

Until the death of Alençon in 1584, much of her attention was devoted to restraining his dangerous ambitions, which again threatened to involve France in hostilities with Spain.

First, Iraq occupies a key position in the Persian Gulf, a strategically important region of the world — a position that is all the more important because of the dangerous ambitions of Iran's rulers.

In the buildup to his mountainous challenge to unseat one of the world's best middleweights who, for one night only, is not really a middleweight, Khan, a natural welterweight with dangerous ambitions, struggles to hide his displeasure with Mayweather, the pre-eminent practitioner in his own division since Sugar Ray Leonard.

Rhee herself took on a consulting role for Scott, whose policies were viewed by Democrats as emblematic of dangerous conservative ambition.

Both issues — Iran's dangerous nuclear ambitions and the Palestinian right to a secure state — need to be dealt with seriously, but neither man acknowledged the other side's priority nor articulated a common path forward.

THE hope in Europe that "soft power", offering engagement in place of confrontation, would encourage Iran to give up its dangerous nuclear ambitions seems set to collide with hard reality.

Any decision to build a new weapon would feed already deep suspicions about America's judgment and motives and further undercut efforts to contain the dangerous nuclear ambitions of North Korea, Iran and other wannabes.

At that time the British favored Sayyid Ali, whom they saw as a purely religious leader, while Sayyid Abd al-Rahman also had potentially dangerous political ambitions.