Sentence examples for intense ambitions from inspiring English sources

One of his most intense ambitions, though, is to finally see a suicide barrier erected on the Golden Gate.

As Mr. Bush sees it, the vice president is an engineered man, not an authentic one, with an unnatural upbringing and unnaturally intense ambitions.

But art, not life style, fired her intense ambition.

Despite intense ambition and efforts to ingratiate himself, Moynihan never penetrated the Kennedy inner circle.

Critics and cartoonists mocked the intense ambition of the architects Domènech i Montaner, Puig i Cadafalch - and Antoni Gaudí.

As a 24-year-old he is ashamed of his intense ambition, which he fears makes him ludicrous.

The response of most Labour MPs in 1997 was to be genuinely loyal to the leadership and for that enthusiasm to be combined with intense ambition to become ministers.

Despite his efforts in Paris, Napoleon was unable to obtain a satisfactory command, because he was feared for his intense ambition and for his relations with the Montagnards, the more radical members of the National Convention.

What made me want to write his biography was my curiosity about what it felt like to dwell in his twangy, inbetween psychic state, full of intense ambition and equally stubborn flaws.

Her dealings with Mr. Summers — she persuaded him to abandon an unpopular plan to move the law school, kept her distance when he faltered and made no bones about trying to succeed him when he was forced to resign as Harvard's president — reveal a woman of intense ambition and deft political skills.

The story encapsulates the buried but intense ambition that took a shy young girl, now aged 16, this week to a world record and Olympic gold medal with one stunning performance – only to land her at the heart of an international controversy.