Sentence examples for historical ambition from inspiring English sources

The Orbón piece shows some historical ambition.

The ongoing nuclear talks are about stopping proliferation but there is also a larger historical ambition at stake.

The Bush administration, through its characteristic combination of boldness, historical ambition and operational incompetence, has given sovereignty a bad name, much as it has for unilateralism.

The sweeping historical ambition of this work emphasizes the connection between social and economic change and the development of tea gardens.

At the same time, "Pregnant Widow" lacks both the emotional wisdom and historical ambition of Mr. Amis's last novel, the powerful and deeply affecting "House of Meetings," which tackled the daunting subject of Stalin's labor camps and the mental costs of survival.

For those in Sevastopol, the pluses include the fulfillment of belonging to a state with historical ambitions and a claim to great power.

Amid the heft of historical ambitions being realised, and the first tangible diplomatic momentum of the war, there is now a sense that things are shifting in Syria.

But even more important than Ankara's stated goal of stopping Isis is preventing the US-backed Kurds from advancing into areas that would secure them their historical ambitions to control territory held by Arabs in north-eastern Syria.

Peretjatko spins out a variety of comic inventions, including flashbacks and fantasies, perorations into the camera and magic tricks — there are allusions to Woody Allen and Blake Edwards as well as to Jacques Rivette and Jean-Luc Godard — but the movie's original French title, which translates as "The Girl of July 14th," reflects the director's historical ambitions.

After seething at Kurdish gains on its southern border over the past year, Ankara sent tanks and troops to Syria in pursuit of the Kurds who it insisted were using the remit the US had given them as a premise for a land grab that would realise historical ambitions.

Their lives are the stuff biographers dream of: world-historical ambition, military derring-do, political intrigue, private scandal, theatrical deaths.