Sentence examples for long ambition from inspiring English sources

"One candidate once wrote to me saying his life long ambition was to work for Oxfam," says Salisbury.

On the one hand, the Iraq mission would fulfill Morgain's long ambition to serve his country in combat — he had been in the Army as a young man, but that had been during peacetime.

Cassel had a parallel career in the theatre, first in Jean Vilar's company in the 1960s for whom he played in Molière and Musset, and in 1976, he realised a long ambition to play in a Broadway musical.

Massey's part is an exhausting one, but playing Lincoln fulfills for him a life-long ambition.

To say that Johnson, forever upbeat and helpful, with never a whinge about his lot, deserves to realise his life-long ambition and become champion at last, at the age of 38, is one of sport's great understatements.

SMACK in the middle of Mark Wahlberg's cavernous home gym here, amid the racks of weights and rows of cardio equipment, is the emblem of a career-long ambition: a regulation-size boxing ring.

For her part, Ms. Schieffelin said, her sex was the only possible reason she was repeatedly told that she would not achieve her career-long ambition of becoming a Morgan Stanley managing director.

All that changed this autumn, when a local man fulfilled a life-long ambition to launch his own bus company to link up the villages of his valley, providing a "lifeline" to pensioners and teens without driving licences who were otherwise stuck in their homes.

"It has been a life-long ambition of mine to play for St Mirren as they were my first love in football," he told the Saints website.

Mr Sata finally achieved his life-long ambition to be president at his fourth attempt, winning elections in 2011 and unseating the incumbent Rupiah Banda.

And in winning this year's Tour, Wiggins not only fulfilled a life-long ambition but also sealed his place in the pantheon of cycling greats.