Sentence examples for previous ambition from inspiring English sources

"The problem is that previous ambition has been really low.

He had turned his back on a previous ambition of a single united unionist party, facing down Paisley and UK Unionist leader Bob McCartney, in the May 1998 referendum on the agreement.

It was a big change for the frontman, whose previous ambition had been to get a job as a car valet.

At 30, previous ambitions have been tempered though recalling Drogba, who blossomed relatively late in the professional game, feels apt.

With his previous ambitions of literary and lawyerly fame unfulfilled, Saint-Just directed his focus on the single goal of revolutionary command.

He returned to the hot seat two years later to spearhead a £57m share issue, designed to wipe out a debt burden which had seen Rangers downsize their previous on-field ambitions.

Although they have greater expectations and ambition than previous generations, young women are destined to earn less, have smaller pensions, and be more likely to suffer violent abuse than their male counterparts.

In a thinly veiled attack on the previous Labour government's ambition to send 50% of school leavers to university, Branson said: "Ten years ago it felt as though teenagers in Britain were being told that university was the be all and end all, whereas in reality higher education wasn't of use to many of those paying for it".

However, both experts agree that it's positive for mental wellbeing that millennials prioritise their personal life over career ambition, unlike previous generations.

However, both experts agree that it's positive for mental wellbeing that millennials prioritize their personal life over career ambition, unlike previous generations.

Mr Field thinks the previous government's laudable ambitions to curb child poverty were side-tracked by an obsession with redistribution, and using welfare to pull families mechanically over a centrally-determined poverty line.