Sentence examples for keen ambition from inspiring English sources

Mr. Baldwin partly blamed the current field of potential candidates in the 2013 mayoral race for his loss of interest, suggesting that he found their keen ambition and eagerness distasteful.

Perhaps because of his credentials and his keen ambition, Mr. Tian has faced sky-high expectations ever since he became chief executive of the company, China Netcom, in 1999.

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen: Cracking China (BBC2) | iPlayer The Outcast (BBC1) | iPlayer Dispatches: Escape from Isis (C4) | All 4 Dragons' Den (BBC2) | iPlayer It is hard, unless you have a keen ambition to play no further role within British society, not to become exercised about the BBC at the moment.

England also made a run at the city, but it would end up not just part of America but one of its essences, a place where waterways and railroads crossed, where keening ambition met ample resources and politicians, social reformers, plutocrats and union organizers clashed with regularity.

Copé was dubbed Sarkozilla when Nicolas Sarkozy was French president, a nod to his keen political ambition.

And New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo – a man with keener presidential ambitions than even his New Jersey counterpart – was down at the World Trade Center site last night, desperate to project first-responder machismo.

Now his hair is thick and gray, his ambition keen.

As he briskly moves about the executive chamber, he flashes past the darkly handsome ghost of himself in photos of 40 years ago, when his hair was thick and black, his ambition keen.

After all, in Belgium, everyone disagrees all the time: the art of compromise comes later, making sure that everyone leaves the room on the same line.Is Mr Van Rompuy a man of ambition, keen to push national governments towards deeper EU integration?

"Presumably it is a better magazine published by a better company with a better management who have a keener sense of ambition," he adds with agreeable immodesty.

Sony Pictures Television is keen to rekindle its ambition to expand its global production presence, having recently divested itself of its 20% stake in Shine, the production firm Elisabeth Murdoch sold to her father Rupert's News Corp earlier this year.