Sentence examples for respectable ambition from inspiring English sources
It was a respectable ambition, though it worth noting that 60 million or so Brits did stay at home that day and elected MPs voted, in very large numbers, to back the war at the time.
Respectable doesn't display the same level of ambition as The Uses of Literacy, but it is an intelligent and important book that deserves to be widely read.
While that is hardly a top-tier ambition, Mr. Rudley called it "decent and respectable and matching with our mission".
The young people we interviewed all wanted to be respectable workers, but if that gets in the way of ambition, they were willing to bracket it.
Sophiatown residents had a determination to construct a respectable lifestyle in the shadow of a state that was actively hostile to such ambitions.
Consider the catalog of teaching films, from the respectable ("Stand and Deliver," "To Sir, With Love") to the risible ("Dangerous Minds," "Mr. Holland's Opus"), and you find they all share an ambition: to beatify teachers.
Although he stated that his ambition was to become "the best Ethiopian [i.e., Negro minstrel] song writer," he vacillated between composing minstrel songs (for which he is largely remembered) and songs in the sentimental "respectable" style then popular.
Respectable opinion is aghast.
