Sentence examples for out of ambition from inspiring English sources

In Communist days, he was a party member, but only, he says coldly, out of ambition.

I did it not out of ambition, but for the sheer pleasure of it.

Mr. Bamford says he believes General Hayden acted out of ambition and deference to his bosses.

"We always felt that if we failed, we'd fail out of ambition," Mr. Bailey said of "Push".

"The dilemma here is that these aren't just personal disagreements bred out of ambition and strong personality," he added.

"Morgan did not take this job out of ambition, but out of duty," said Scott Shenker, director of Research Initiatives and ICSI's chief scientist.

It's the directors who have summered at Camp Auteur that you really have to watch out for -- not so much their extravagant and out-of-control ambition, as their inability to fulfill it.

He is out of ambitions, but his family is seeking a formidable honor on his behalf: they want the United States to recognize him as its oldest living veteran.

I've listed them out in order of ambition too.

Just typing out that sort of ambition is sort of painful when the service still shows me that I'm following people who I'm not and is all over the place with regards to a steady revenue stream.

People set out with a lot of ambition and enthusiasm, and start out with a big goal.