Sentence examples for destructive ambitions from inspiring English sources

That's the message that needs to be conveyed to Muslims worldwide in order to isolate ISIS from Islam and provide Islam as the antidote to the ideological distortion of ISIS and its destructive ambitions.

Robin Talley's novel As I Descended, released in September, tells an all-too-familiar story of potential outmatched by destructive ambition.

I was not without ambition, but it was not a burning, self-destructive ambition.

We need constraints to keep our sometimes foolish, self-destructive ambition in check.

Our ambition is destructive.

But this combination of buck-passing and local ambition is highly destructive.

presence in Africa; he told me that great ambitions tend to be destructive.

Whether anyone notices or not, alien invasion flicks offer a telling analogy when it comes to the destructive reality of Washington's global ambitions; so, too, do "space operas" like Star Wars.

As Mr. Reznor's audience grew, so did his ambitions and his self-destructive side: alcoholism and heroin addiction.

Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me, And hide me from the heavy wrath of God! Just as in Tamburlaine Marlowe had seen the cruelty and absurdity of his hero as well as his magnificence, so here he can enter into Faustus' grandiose intellectual ambition, simultaneously viewing those ambitions as futile, self-destructive, and absurd.

Colonel Qaddafi remains a destructive force in international affairs, promoting his ambitions for African leadership by sponsoring warlords like Liberia's recently ousted president, Charles Taylor.