Sentence examples for external ambitions from inspiring English sources

My take is that without Europe, Britain would have to seriously cut down on any external ambitions, something which doesn't quite fit with calls for a "progressive internationalist" agenda.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter spoke of Saudi Arabia "defending its own borders" and seeking "to protect its own security," even though the Houthis evidence no external ambitions, and attempting to "restore stability in Yemen," which has never existed.

Her opposition to the regime doesn't extend to the importation of Iraqi-style democracy - she is at once fighting traditional patriarchal sexism of formalised into institutional oppression, and the external aggression and ambitions of the imperialists.

In every case, as in the Greek plays, the destructive forces seem to combine inner inadequacies or evils, such as Lear's temper or Macbeth's ambition, with external pressures, such as Lear's "tiger daughters," the witches in Macbeth, or Lady Macbeth's importunity.

Progress has not been particularly swift on many of Wallace's aims, including the fundamental one of restructuring the club's finances and seeking the external investment required to underpin the club's ambitions.

This is what Mona, a young band with outsize ambition, does well: meshing internal angst with external pomp.

What is different in the Weymouth case is that Sainsbury's water neutral ambition is pushing it to look for external as well as internal efficiencies.

Iran has no nuclear weapons ambitions or programs that it would abandon under external pressure.

If Podemos and Syriza stumble, failing to meet electoral ambitions or promises, they are tempted to blame forces external to them: the European Union, globalised capitalism or obscure lobbies.

'You have high ambitions and cannot live up to them, due to external or personal reasons' The narratives spoke of ambitions to engage in unfinished research and of being ashamed to ask already overloaded colleagues for help with unfinished work.

Such accusations, the Sufis maintained, were made because the orthodox relied too much on the external meaning of religious texts and did not have the ambition or energy to seek an understanding of the inner meaning of Islam.