The phrase "private ambition" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use this phrase to describe an individual's drive or desire to achieve goals, without necessarily involving or relying on anyone else. For example, "John has a strong private ambition to become the CEO of a major company."
The nation-state allowed for undertakings, like the investigation of space, that eclipsed what private ambition could achieve.
The routine blowout was played at the intersection of contrasting scholastic sports values and capabilities, a head-on collision between private ambition and public reality.
Over time, however, the idea of public duty gave way to private ambition, especially as Roman citizenship became more universal (see civitas).
Ivana is shameless, superficial, and sometimes surprising — strict in her adherence to a personal code and private ambition, louche in terms of most everything else.
The demagogue tribune or consul could use the legal machinery of the popular assembly (hence such men are called populares), while the commander could rely on his army in the pursuit of private ambition.
But that hope has collided in the ensuing years with a recognition that private ambition and private industry, however vigorous they are, cannot on their own lift India from poverty and malnourishment, insurgencies and creaking infrastructure.
Yet, whatever their private ambitions, Mr Dahal has offered to join a government of national unity if the president rescinds his reinstatement of the army chief.
But to corporate watchdogs, it simply underscores how carefully Mr. Golisano has separated his private ambitions from the duty he owes to Paychex's shareholders, including several large public pension funds, most of Paychex's 8,000 employees -- and himself.
Though it is an India of holy cows and stomach-breaking curries, it is an India that functions smoothly — an India in which the surging private ambitions that are so palpable today can prevail without the obstructions of the country beyond the call center.
"Tonight we cast our votes for the people who are today voiceless and left out as a result of a political system that has become a vehicle of the elites who use it for personal interest and private ambitions," said Frank J. Macchiarola, the commission chairman, in opening remarks.
In Lippmann's view, Bryan and his people were fruitlessly at war with "the economic conditions which had upset the old life of the prairies, made new demands on democracy, introduced specialization and science, had destroyed village loyalties, frustrated private ambitions, and created the impersonal relationships of the modern world".
