Sentence examples for steady ambition from inspiring English sources

Calpurnia's fierce intelligence, tireless curiosity, and steady ambition allow her to stand out, even among a family of boys, as someone who knows who she is and who is determined to become a leader in a time and place where girls are actively discouraged from pursuing careers and are pressed into traditional roles by their parents.

Her fierce intelligence, tireless curiosity, and steady ambition allow her to stand out, even among a family of boys, as someone who knows who she is and who is determined to become a leader in a time and place where girls are actively discouraged from pursuing careers and are pressed into traditional roles by their parents.

"I've always balanced a steady combo of ambition and negative self-talk," she said.

With steady work and fierce ambition, the boy weathered West New York's rough-and-tumble culture to become valedictorian of Memorial High School and gain admission to Princeton.

And all of it adds up to the questions 'Where next?' and 'Do we really want this again?'" For six years Woodward directed his players on a steady path towards their twin ambitions.

Just to quote an example from Spector (2012), the "religious susceptibility gene" remains steady, in this narrative, in the ambition to ground culturally sophisticated phenomena onto molecular codes, with the difference that these codes now take the form of flexible and hence reversible switches rather than fixed circuits (p. 107).

In a way, it is the novel's true subject, and a steady source of pain: thwarted aspiration, a sense of life as a slow lapse from high ambition.

Fawning descriptions in the Chinese media talk of a "Warren Buffett model", whereby Anbang draws on steady income from insurance to fuel its ambitions.

His steady rise did nothing to satisfy his fierce ambition.

It has grown slowly, generating steady but modest profits and exhibiting no great ambition to grow a lot faster.

This sign traditionally does not have a reputation for driven business ambition but their talent for careful, steady analysis is the ability most able to amass and monetize data.