Sentence examples for evident ambition from inspiring English sources

This evident ambition alarms the governing coalition of Social Democrats and Greens, especially at a time when Mr. Haider's success has illustrated the appeal of a nationalist right.

But his evident ambition alienated peers and he was spectacularly toppled after allegations surfaced that his wife, Gu Kailai, had killed a British businessman.

I'm not suggesting that they change or rebrand it, but after watching the first half of this year's lineup, movies of modest means and evident ambition, I prefer to think of the festival as Serious Directors/Small Films.

His wife, Gu Kailai, was convicted of murdering the British businessman Neil Heywood, but even if that scandal had not erupted, Bo's evident ambition and populist campaigning had alarmed many in the party.

Bo is a highly divisive figure who alienated peers and alarmed liberals with his ruthless tactics and evident ambition, but who retains considerable popularity in his former fiefdoms of Dalian and Chongqing, and had high-level connections – one reason, it is thought, why the trial is taking place in Jinan, where he had no particular support.

Mr. Christie, a favorite of the Tea Party movement, sought again on Wednesday to quash speculation that he, too, might seek higher office even as his tone, message and evident ambitions made clear that he wants a voice in the national debate.

Indeed, if you imagined two opposite people, save only for their evident mutual ambition, it might be Rupert and Wendi.

"Based on the person chosen from the rumored field of candidates to fill the U.S. Senate vacancy on an interim basis, it is once again evident that political ambition was the key factor in the selection," Ms. Capito said in a statement.

Here the complexity is not only evident in the ambition of opening up the research agenda, but also in dealing with complex reality in research.

Its ambition is evident in the apparent humility of its subject: like Updike's Rabbit tetralogy, it's to be nothing more or less than the story of a life.

From Day 1, his ambition was evident.