Sentence examples for diminished ambition from inspiring English sources

They grow preoccupied with finding an escape for some financial safety and/or diminished ambition.

And I quote: "The fact that the Dutch have mostly grinded out victories does not reflect a diminished ambition or change of direction at all.

UK Sport's chief executive, Liz Nicholl, said the target of 48 medals did not represent diminished ambition given the earlier promise made in the wake of the London Games.

Big means diminished ambitions.

I'm also not talking micro-credit because; sometimes we diminish ambition by sticking to just micro-credit.

Yet it has not diminished those ambitions.

But family life didn't diminish her ambition, and on a dare by a friend, she entered and won the Mrs. Wisconsin beauty pageant and went on to win the national contest, taking the title of Mrs. America in 2004.

A windfall in one would not necessarily diminish ambitions in the others.

Despite Schiano's departure, there have been signs that Rutgers does not intend to diminish its ambitions.

Amid the widening phone-hacking scandal, the News Corporation may find its deal-making ambitions diminished.

Always glad to snark it up, Mr. Rabin can also be mournful when reflecting on how worthwhile failures like "Heaven's Gate" diminished Hollywood's ambitions, then and now.