Sentence examples similar to profess ambition from inspiring English sources

The council is made up of lawyers and intellectuals who profess ambitions of creating a Libya governed by democratic ideals, possibly altering the face of the Arab world and inspiring more autocratic regimes to fall.

Drake was a senior executive at the NSA — a "senior change leader" — who professed an ambition to change the agency's insular culture.

Chen professes no ambition to be the next Steven Jobs.

In those early months, Sisi publicly professed no ambition to move to the political arena.

In 2013's HD remake of Castle of Illusion, Mizrabel looks like a cross between the Queen and Maleficent in her youthful form and professes her ambition to be "the fairest of them all".

A commitment to rearing homegrown players is hardly unique - every club in England would profess the same ambition.

He refuses interviews and professes no political ambition for himself.

But I don't profess to understand its ambitions.

It is a virtual axiom of Washington life that Richard Holbrooke wants to be the next secretary of State, though Holbrooke himself professes to scorn any such ambition.

Many profess to be shocked by Katie's naked ambition.

Schoenberg was a good public-relations man, always protesting the modesty of his ambitions and professing his tolerance for others.