Sentence examples for small ambitions from inspiring English sources

Outsiders or not, the pair have no small ambitions.

It was clear then that Mikhail D. Prokhorov would have no use for subtlety or small ambitions as the new owner of the Brooklyn-bound Nets.

It is, instead, a contribution to a very large body of work by historians analyzing their profession -- and a contribution with no small ambitions.

"I know it's both, but if we don't stand united, we just confirm the image the public has of us from the expenses crisis - that we're in it for ourselves, that it's about small ambitions, not big causes.

He harbored no small ambitions when he began thinking in the late 1940s about a kind of musical complement to his visual ideas: a symphony of monotony and silence, a much harder thing to do well than he or anyone imagined.

J. Liebling, Calvin Trillin, the French writer Robert Courtine, and any good restaurant critic) is essentially comic and treats the small ambitions of the greedy eater as though they were big and noble, spoofing the idea of the heroic while raising the minor subject to at least temporary greatness.

It is no small ambition.

It is no small ambition: the sea covers more than 70 percent of the planet's surface.

"It's such a small ambition and sad really," Mr. Jobs said.

If we do all that …" It's certainly no small ambition.

This is no small ambition, and while Junger offers some incisive insights he does not always fulfill his larger goals.