Sentence examples for degree of ambition from inspiring English sources

"These I.N.D.C.s have a reasonable degree of ambition," he said.

It seems unlikely that I would have ended up with the degree of ambition that I did, one that surpasses my modest genetic gifts.

Looking on, occasionally through your fingers, it's hard not to be impressed by the sheer degree of ambition that got it up there in the first place.

Its graduates believe that the college gave them a degree of ambition and confidence that would have been impossible with men around.

Butler says there is a clear difference between Labor and the Coalition on the degree of ambition for emissions reduction, and the opposition was comfortable fighting an election on that difference.

Whatever the frame of reference — post-bop is another genre tag that doesn't quite fit the bill — their efforts here radiate an imposingly high degree of ambition, maturity and poise.

It would be possible to build on existing institutions, relationships and experiences, permitting – at least in the first instance – differing degrees of ambition.

Devised by family, friends and associates, designed with varying degrees of ambition or opulence, these monuments will continue to be built until the end of Presidential, or republican, time.

Perhaps even more unnerving was having to invent characters from whole cloth; human beings with varying degrees of ambition, intelligence, compassion, humor and integrity.

And so there is in him a certain degree of reduced ambition, a sense that even well before the commentariat starts calling him a lame duck he will spend much of his time setting an agenda that can be resolved only after he has retired to the life of a writer and post-President.

The last time that I checked, nobody has accused other presidential candidates or presidents (all male) of being too ambitious, despite the fact that gunning for the job of "leader of the free world" would seem to require by any standard some degree of extraordinary ambition.