Sentence examples for professed ambition from inspiring English sources

His professed ambition is one that invariably ends in tears.

If his invention's early appeal was at a freshman level, exploiting the desire of college students to check each other out, his professed ambition was much higher: to change the world.

But for such a versatile entertainer whose whole persona is dependent on his professed ambition and how he won't stop until we say that "James Franco is the white Donald Glover," he's surprisingly lazy.

At Shell's annual shareholder meeting last year, the board promised a group of activist shareholders, including the Church of England, to better explain how bonus schemes for Van Beurden and others were aligned with its professed ambitions to help tackle climate change.

His music is released through the mainstream label Warner, but his professed highest ambition is "to show the world the DIY approach on a very high platform".

Whether his professed presidential ambitions are genuine or merely a publicity stunt seems not to matter in terms of the news media attention Mr. Trump can command.

Davis's professed unworthiness is one of many tricky manifestations of her ambition.

But while Matt Hirschfeld's name is, for him, money in the bank, whether the two Hirschfelds are actually related remains a puzzle, composed, in part, of a mother's ambition, an immigrant's destination card and a legendary illustrator's professed bafflement at a claim of kinship.

Still, many professed optimism.

He was a professed socialist.

The problem is the professed beliefs.