Sentence examples for old ambition from inspiring English sources

My friends could see before I could that I was heading back to my old ambition".

He has almost fulfilled an old ambition of his - doing at least one of everything" in the field of music.

All the more so given the old ambition of Lockheed and other American defence firms to become big in Europe.

By cypress taught and yew, My soul I made Write old ambition new And qualify the laurel's shade.

In 437 the Athenians fulfilled an old ambition by founding a colony at Amphipolis, no doubt on a large scale, though figures for settlers do not exist.

The simulation side of the games, however, never came close to realizing the Tech Model Railroad Club's old ambition of reproducing real-life dynamics on the screen.

I'm ashamed I reverted to my old ambitions and got so high-strung about it".

Becoming very rich can rob you of your old ambitions and give you a need for new ones.

Iran is dedicated to the destruction of the state of Israel and it is pursuing old ambitions in the Middle East.

Meanwhile, a majority of the American public show rare levels of consensus on the failure of old ambitions in the region.

And, as Prime Minister David Cameron's effort to redefine his land's relationship with the European Union seemed to show, the nation still harbors old ambitions to mold events in the vast Continent separated from it by a narrow band of sometimes fog-bound water and by large dollops of mutual incomprehension.