Sentence examples for result of ambition from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bowles's reach for the Met, at age 37, is not really the result of ambition, though certainly there are few things in life for which he is better suited than playing Miss Marple to a bunch of old frocks.

McGrath said the row was a result of ambition to improve the competition being expressed in "negative terms".

As Dr Johnson put it, "to be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition".

The problem with this argument is that not one of those shows was the result of entrepreneurial ambition.

Once he had attained power, was Johnson's crucial role in passing civil-rights legislation a result of his ambition or his compassion?

It has been the result of our ambition to do our personal best; to persist, persevere and perfect ourselves; to work as individuals and as a team.

It chronicles Macbeth's seizing of power and subsequent destruction, both his rise and his fall the result of blind ambition.

Dr Moore's strange obsession with the patient's bowel movements turns out to be the result of an ambition to "expand the Bristol Stool Chart from the current seven to an exhaustive 37 types of patient faeces".

"What I learned at the National is that on the occasions when we created big long-running hits or shows that would have been long-running hits of there had been places to take them to, that was always the result of creative ambition, it was never the result of playing safe," he said.

Stuart Racey, president of Impact Marketing, who has worked with Mr. Dorf, said the problems were mostly a result of headlong ambition and enthusiasm, which led Mr. Dorf to plan the huge festival in the three months between the securing of the finances and opening night.

Binod explains "whatever I am now, that's the result of high ambition".