Sentence examples for determined ambition. from inspiring English sources

A few people had sensed, before this, that Peyton's quiet manner veiled a fiercely determined ambition.

But now we have two men, of determined ambition and imposing stature, trying to bump each other off.

And it was from this serendipitous encounter with ballet that he formed the precociously determined ambition to become a professional dancer.

The performance of fit energy, healthy vibration, and determined ambition was on stage--two blocks from home.

In Gordon, Lustig, Van Dijk, Brown, Biton and Johansen they have players who have learned and improved from previous experiences in the competition, and they are part of a team that has the fitness, energy and determined ambition to succeed at this level of the competition.

Stability and reconstruction have been made out as the mark of most of his policies; the scale of his motivation ranging from "determined ambition" with Geoffrey Rudolph Elton in 1977 to "idealism of a sort" with Diarmaid MacCulloch in 1999.

Carter's friends, including Salman Rushdie, former poet laureate Andrew Motion, publisher Carmen Callil, and the writer and historian Marina Warner, had no idea the author had started out in the 1960s with determined ambitions as a poet.

He evidently believed that the problems of inter-subjectivity were not imposed upon us from outside; rather, he saw them as resulting from our being trapped in patterns of socially determined ambitions.

We're not so different that our sex determines our ambition rather than our personalities, are we?

So it's basically on the EPA to determine the ambition of domestic regulation, which will therefore determine international positions.

It would seem that Mr. McGreevey, a skillful politician, determined that political ambition and open homosexuality were incompatible.