Sentence examples for exceptional ambition from inspiring English sources

The immigrants who come to the United States often lack financial resources, but they have exceptional ambition and energy to overcome the barriers of language and culture.

The last time Congress changed hands, the Republican freshman class of 1994 roared into town under the leadership of Newt Gingrich as speaker and quickly advanced a conservative agenda of exceptional ambition.

He harbours an exceptional ambition: to build Applera's shareholder value by industrialising modern biology.When Celera was created in 1998, its goal was ambitious too: to sequence the human genome in three years, becoming the "Bloomberg of biology" by selling access to the information in a comprehensive, user-friendly database.

Maurice Cockrill, who has died aged 78, was an artist of exceptional range and ambition.

But Édouard's son (Guy [1909 2007]) and his cousins (Alain [1910 82] and Elie [1917 2007]) showed exceptional adaptability and ambition, thus confirming the constant element in the group's history for a century and a half: a remarkable capacity for seizing opportunities and for adapting in business as well as in politics.

Re-popularized and exposed to a national audience in the mid-twentieth century with the establishment of Historic Deerfield, the raid was contextualized in a celebration of exceptional American individual ambition.

Chef Welch began his career with the Award of Excellence from the Academy of Culinary Arts, which recognizes exceptional talent and ambition in young chefs, and has continued to receive accolades ever since, from winning the prestigious Gordon Ramsay Scholarship Award to being recognized by GQ as one of the UK's 'Top 100 Most Influential Men'.

(Of course, there are exceptions — and, true to form, the filmmakers of the exception have made the tone and type of their exceptional sensibility and their ambitions the very subject of their work).

The producers have responded with admirable ambition, commissioning an exceptional array of talent to create cinematic realisations of all 19 of Beckett's theatre plays, in association with the Irish Film Board, RTE (an Irish broadcasting company) and Channel 4.Although scheduled to be shown on television, these are really cinematic films best seen on a large screen.

AECOM is helping some exceptional clients to realise their ambitions.

The advert says the South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner (PCC) "is looking to appoint an exceptional individual with the appropriate experience, ambition and vision to lead the South Yorkshire police service in building public trust and confidence".