Sentence examples for lowering ambition from inspiring English sources

The salt air did not help the structure, but equally damaging was the lowering ambition and resources that the council could devote to the pavilion in the 1970s and 1980s.

They see the logic of lowering ambitions and focusing sharply on that which can be achieved.

Officials in Brussels warn that signs of a weakening commitment by European leaders to fighting climate change could start a chain reaction, lowering ambitions among other central players, like China and India.

The Australian Open will get a fine women's champion on Saturday, whoever wins, because former finalist Li Na and little giant-killer Dominika Cibulkova have done all that has been asked of them over the past fortnight in negotiating the falling timber in a tournament of high temperatures and lowered ambitions.

It's such a lowering of ambition and expectation".

But they insist this does not represent a lowering of ambition for the talks, and say a political deal would still be a major achievement.

The first way could be that this represents, for the government, a strategic lowering of ambition – don't try to set some grand agenda, just do what the voters say they want, which is to find practical solutions for practical problems, and use that as a basis for post-election recovery.

I think we should aim for a lower ambition".

Our main goal with this issue was to monitor "How to make it happen?" but we ended up with more questions and the lower ambition of, "What's happening".

Continuing to use development finance for fossil fuel projects results poses the risk that countries will be locked into lower ambition and unable to meet their Paris Agreement climate goals.

5 A large proportion of patients had missing information on the level of ejection fraction (28%), which implies down-prioritization of diagnostic and follow-up investigations and most likely concurrently lower ambition in initiating and optimizing evidence-based treatment of HF.