Sentence examples for past ambition from inspiring English sources

Or maybe it's her unpredictability -- you just can't keep on leaving home, or minting earrings out of the exhausted vein of silver plate in the Irish-American foothills, or rehearsing the same old road show of wayward girls, harmful husbands, angry academics, suspicion of money, quarrels with the past, ambition and corruption.

Media, movies and television in the fifties and sixties presented images of Baby Boomers as sexless grandmas and grandpas, past ambition, past passion, and of course, past sex.

But the Decemberists, wisely, haven't abandoned their past ambitions.

What's more, the company found itself faced with high fixed costs, reminders of its past ambitions, and investors who had lost their patience.

It's true that the governmental treaty of the 26 is a meatier piece of work than we've seen so far – a "fiscal compact" with budgetary disciplines enshrined in constitutions goes beyond past ambitions.

I sipped the long delight of a past time where ambition was too late.

Khayat became chancellor in 1995, with the mission of liberating Ole Miss from its past — a perilous ambition at a place where the past was so insistently present.

He owns the largest newspaper in northern Cyprus but, perhaps surprisingly, given his past appetites and ambition, has kept out of the limelight.

Another possibility, Mr. Menendez, is appealing because he has a formidable campaign war chest of his own of nearly $3 million, and he has made no secret in the past about his ambition to move to the Senate.

The question became: How do I find and give a purpose to my past?" Her main ambition for the future, she concluded, is to use her famous name to "get involved with efforts on behalf of victims of online humiliation and harassment and to start speaking on this topic in public forums".

Most agree that both men can't see past their own ambition for power.