Sentence examples for longtime ambition from inspiring English sources

Her illness was the catalyst for creating the Interference Archive, a longtime ambition of theirs.

In 1929 he realized a longtime ambition by establishing the Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology, Orange Park, Fla.

"A life dream, a longtime ambition and a journey written in the stars is about to be realized.

Mr. Rorem, an acknowledged master of song, fulfilled a longtime ambition by composing an evening-length song cycle.

Acting with Mr. Carell had been a longtime ambition; they both appeared in a television pilot years ago but never shared any scenes.

The bid, which represents a longtime ambition of these two eminent South Koreans, is in the hands of 24 disparate members of a FIFA committee.

When my longtime childhood ambition of becoming a surgeon was derailed by the onset of adolescent squeamishness — specifically, a dread of blood — I turned to archeology.

By Jennifer Egan When my longtime childhood ambition of becoming a surgeon was derailed by the onset of adolescent squeamishness specifically, a dread of blood—I turned to archeology.

Even then, the possession was… In the fall of 1942, Vladimir Nabokov, unable to secure a teaching position at Wellesley College, where he had held a creative-writing post the previous… When my longtime childhood ambition of becoming a surgeon was derailed by the onset of adolescent squeamishness — specifically, a dread of blood — I turned to archeology.

Some women, in particular, were ill at ease with her ambition; a longtime advisor told Anne Kornblut, author of "Notes from the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and What It Will Take for a Woman to Win," that educated women in the professional class "fucking couldn't stand her".

Catalans have no love for Rajoy's People's Party, longtime opponent of its self-governing ambitions.