Sentence examples for mere ambition from inspiring English sources

Mere ambition wants to leap high without the run and looks for easy ladders.

The Conservatives have downgraded their pledge to cut net migration to a mere ambition.

On the other side are those who find meritocracy too tethered to mere ambition.

Early insinuations — that he went beyond mere ambition in seeking to be President Obama's Senate replacement — dissipated amid the feathery weight of the evidence.

In their desperation to find bones, a desperation that can't quite be reduced to mere ambition or competitiveness, they evoke another idea at the center of "Westworld": that the self is never more than a performance, solidified by props.

In the aftermath, Ryu tells Irene that Clancy's and Foster's plan have been foiled, and that mankind will live on and refuse to be part of anyone's evil plans; he adds that mankind would never stoop to a level in which they would completely destroy themselves out of mere ambition.

The selfless excuse of nobility is a more terrible temptation than mere personal ambition.

We now have an ultimate aspirational resume, truly surpassing all before it, well beyond mere yuppie ambition and into an undreamed of sort of pre-career virtuosity: that of 25-year-old Ronan Farrow, who, without ever hardly having had a paying job, has gone from faceless celebrity-family member to historical entity in the period of a few weeks.

First, the mere idea of ambition in the factory was ludicrous.

Anyhow, who needs mere facts when ambition and faith are leading you on?

No longer mere symbols of ambition and triumph, they now also inspire a sense of vulnerability, fear and mortality.