Sentence examples for sort of ambitious from inspiring English sources

Clean-cut and calculating, Smith was the sort of ambitious financier who worked hard, did his homework, and cheated, too.

Increasingly, though, businesses are being started by the sort of ambitious, well-educated folk who will end up creating jobs.

Ms. Steinem advised that Mr. Obama deliver the same sort of ambitious speech about sex that he did on race.

With a commanding performance by Clarke Peters as a Baptist preacher, it is the sort of ambitious, dangerous and self-financed film that fewer filmmakers attempt anymore.

The government will next tackle its generous but underfinanced social security system, but it is likely to wait until next year before beginning any sort of ambitious campaign.

Businesses like this sort of ambitious thinking, but will be far more impressed if the government's existing list of infrastructure commitments are delivered.

As a businessman, many of his former employees say, Mr. Chang generated all sorts of ambitious schemes but almost no apparent profit.

It is in everyone's interest to invest in modernisation, but the airlines are wary: several times in recent history they have bought expensive kit only to find they cannot use it because controllers have failed to upgrade their equipment to match.These sorts of ambitious projects to introduce new technology, with countless participants, are prone to cock-ups.

Under its guidance, central planners have all sorts of ambitious schemes.

"50 years ago we had all these fantastic ideas about how we could move around - jetpacks, flying cars, and all sorts of ambitious ideas.

Of course, the NASA of today isn't quite the same for a number of reasons (consistent budget cuts being prime among them) and crazy private ventures like SpaceX seem best equipped to make these sorts of ambitious strides.