Sentence examples for sole ambition from inspiring English sources

It is a dangerous thing, when survival becomes the sole ambition of a people.

These movies lit a desire to live in his "dream country" which remains McKenzie's sole ambition.

As far as I'm concerned, TBL was very funny, which was its sole ambition.

My sole ambition was to get enough drinking money for two rounds.

Her sole ambition was to be a West Yorkshire police officer.

They are low-level executives who haven't made scrambling up the corporate hierarchy their sole ambition in life.

British children no longer aspire to be train drivers or nurses – more than a fifth say they "just want to be rich": wealth and fame are the sole ambitions of 40% of those surveyed.

"For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write — like myself — college is useless beyond the sophomore year," William Styron wrote to his father in 1946, after returning from Platoon Commander School in Quantico, Va., to resume his studies at Duke.

Immediately following his wife's death Rosebery retired from politics, writing in October 1891 "The sole object of my ambition has disappeared with the death of my wife".

It requires "a constant preference of public to private interest" (SL 4.5); it "limits ambition to the sole desire, to the sole happiness, of doing greater services to our country than the rest of our fellow citizens" (SL 5.3); and it "is a self-renunciation, which is ever arduous and painful" (SL 4.5).

She has to adapt without raising suspicions that political ambition was the sole cause of any change in thinking.