Sentence examples for standing ambition from inspiring English sources

Dick Advocaat has achieved his long standing ambition to manage in the Premier League after being appointed Sunderland's head coach until the end of the season.

And so the history here is that there's clearly a long standing ambition at Microsoft to compete in online advertising.

Now, once again, a long-standing ambition has been realised.

Brazil wants to be recognised as a leader of the developing world; its long-standing ambition to secure a seat at the UN Security Council retains domestic support.

Mouratoglou, 43, never achieved greatness as a player, but in working with Williams he has satisfied a long-standing ambition to coach a major champion.

The world of "contextual discovery" – organising information, reviews and deals around a given location – is the local play on Google's longest-standing ambition.

December The Marquis de Sade's bicentenary (2nd) enables French novelist Michel Houellebecq to fulful his long-standing ambition of making a porn film, after a fashion.

He met with three German bankers who, in an attempt at solidarity, arrived without ties, then he chaired a discussion about the creation of a more autonomous Greek tax authority — a long-standing ambition of the troika.

Progressive hearing loss and tinnitus might be an impediment to work, but Martin is still focused on musical projects, including a long-standing ambition to work on a stage version of Yellow Submarine.

It had been my long-standing ambition to turn it into an open-world shooter and, although that was supposed to be for the next version, we said: 'You know what?

Leeds-based photographer Lizzie said: The idea of creating an exhibition of photographs that are viewed by the swimmers in a pool has been a long-standing ambition of mine.