Sentence examples for opposing ambitions from inspiring English sources
Opposing ambitions collide when the father kidnaps the singer in a film that "delivers an innocuous dose of wish filfillment," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
Opposing "vertical ambition" to an "intrinsic, circular ambition to be happy", Roberts suggests that young people especially are increasingly opposed to the "Darwinian urges of wealth, power and fame".
Kusama's wealthy, unhappily married parents opposed her ambitions.
Samory opposed French ambitions to build an empire in West Africa.
Israeli analysts also noted that Egypt had worked hard to oppose Iranian ambitions, and the loss of Egypt as a counterweight would have consequences.
Haile Selassie's success persuaded Italy's ruler Benito Mussolini to undertake a preemptive strike before Ethiopia grew too strong to oppose Italian ambitions in the Horn of Africa.
Marlborough's skills as a diplomat were also tried; he first created and then managed to maintain the Grand Alliance (the coalition of great and small powers that combined to oppose the ambitions of Louis XIV of France).
The complete extinction of Graziani's army had left the British with a clear passage to Tripoli, but their drive was stopped by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who redeployed a significant portion of the North African force in an ultimately disastrous effort to oppose German ambitions in Greece.
This may be part of their film's corrective intention: their Mafia is not the colorful, violent flowering of ancient Mediterranean peasant customs, but rather a thoroughly vicious organization bent on the subversion of democratic norms and the brutal elimination of anyone who dares to oppose its ambitions.
On the other hand, a systemic component describes how and to what extent FRPs oppose the ambitions of the societal system and its principal agents (i.e. traditional parties and existing elites).
Lehzen had opposed Coburg ambitions of Victoria marrying Albert, believing the princess to be a "second Queen Elizabeth, virgin and independent of male influence".
