Sentence examples for special ambition from inspiring English sources

By Adam Davidson William Stanley Jevons, the nineteenth-century English economist, once wrote to a friend that he'd had no special ambition as a young man.

William Stanley Jevons, the nineteenth-century English economist, once wrote to a friend that he'd had no special ambition as a young man.

In 2009, while he was still the boss at Inter Milan, Mourinho told me he had a special ambition: "I have something in my mind which is to be the first — because nobody did it, no manger did it, no player did it — the first to win the three biggest championships in the world: the Spanish, the English and the Italian".

She tries to explain what makes Nina so special: despair, ambition, hope and ultimately redemption, all in the Russian girl who sees herself as the "soul of the world".

The Special One's ambitions to succeed the Splenetic One at Old Trafford are looking distinctly threadbare.

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So a deep and special partnership is our ambition and our offer.

It was also shown on the HBO special titled Madonna Live! – Blond Ambition World Tour, and was added in her 1991 documentary, Truth or Dare.

"This special day signals Tate's ambition to give some of the young people with the least access to art and culture the opportunity to express their own thoughts and creativity and to engage with art on their own terms".

At Brideshead, Charles Ryder Matthew Goodee), a young man with artistic ambition and no special pedigree, falls under the spell of an aristocratic Roman Catholic family, conceiving first a "romantic friendship" with the dissolute, epicene younger son, Sebastian Flyte Ben Whishaww), and then lusting, in his understated English way, after Sebastian's sister Julia Hayley Atwelll).

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