Sentence examples for determined ambitions from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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.

The manager conceded that the results gleaned from this trio of games will determine "the ambitions of our season".

But Szydło added: "Poland will be a constructive partner in this process, as we have been in the past - but the initiative for determining British ambitions and expectations as to the future level of cooperation with the EU has to come from London".

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.