Sentence examples for longstanding ambitions from inspiring English sources

These aren't women who came to politics when their children were grown, but career lawyers and politicians with longstanding ambitions and long histories — and with families.

And Brazil's leadership would inevitably shape the context for any future discussions about Brazil's permanent membership on an expanded United Nations Security Council — one of its longstanding ambitions.

These hurdles were among the reasons why Axel Springer, which publishes Bild, three years ago dropped longstanding ambitions of introducing a similar newspaper in France.

The latest crisis is an ethnic one, between Kurds and Arabs, and the consequences are potentially more serious because the Kurds, in contrast to the Sunni Arabs, enjoy a measure of autonomy in the north, control their own security forces and have longstanding ambitions for independence.

The fight for a measure of autonomy by Syria's Kurds is the newest conflict in a broader struggle in which Kurds, spread across Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran and oppressed for decades, are trying to take advantage of the chaos in the Middle East to achieve longstanding ambitions for self-government and democratic rights.

Was it a longstanding ambition to be a broadcaster?

Mr. Shechter's success is not, however, the fruit of a longstanding ambition to be a choreographer.

Later I achieved my longstanding ambition to train at Britannia Royal Naval College and was commissioned as a lieutenant.

It was not until late in 1944 that he finally fulfilled his longstanding ambition to fly in RAF wartime operations.

BRASÍLIA, April 6 — Since late last month, a Brazilian has been orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station, fulfilling a longstanding ambition here.

And yet, taken out of context, the album is punchy and effective, a knowing attempt at supersizing the group's sound in keeping with its longstanding ambition.