In such circumstances it was ironic for the Indian Education Commission of 1882 to declare, "The university degree has become an accepted object of ambition, a passport to distinction in public services and in the learned professions".
The value of these great "prizes" was so enormous, that the "hat" became an object of ambition to princes, and it was the primary object with a long series of Popes to bestow it on their kinsmen".
Immediately following his wife's death Rosebery retired from politics, writing in October 1891 "The sole object of my ambition has disappeared with the death of my wife".
It signals the return of a Europe of sovereign and self-confident nations, which are no longer the object of other countries' ambitions, but determine their own fate.
Lincoln's longtime associate, Ward Hill Lamon, noted that his famous friend "was not avaricious, never appropriated a cent wrongfully and did not think money for its own sake a fit object of any man's ambition".
HBO's "Mildred Pierce" works best as a feminist soap opera — the story of an abandoned woman who sacrifices her pride and everything else for her child, and is checkmated by the object of all that love and ambition.
The first group consists of imagination, the orientation toward objects as sources of pleasure or displeasure, and of ambition, whereby pleasure or pain derive from one's awareness of one's standing in the eyes of others.
Its author, Gerd Koenen, has warned of recurring German delusions concerning Russia and said Germany was again an object of Russia's "refreshed world ambitions".
There also we find the chief objects of pleasure and ambition, and there consequently all those will flock whose circumstances can afford it".
Proceeding onto-epistemologically, the new naturalism is as much Mullarkey's object of study as it is an ambition that he shares with the authors that he discusses.
The object, of course, benign in its intent, was to fill us girls with the right kind of ambition.
