Sentence examples for the declared ambition from inspiring English sources

The emergence of pariah states, such as North Korea (possibly soon to be joined by Iran), armed with nuclear weapons was adding to the fear as was the declared ambition of terrorists to steal, buy or build a nuclear device.

The ONS has said that annual net migration to Britain remains at over 250,000 a year despite the declared ambition of the home secretary, Theresa May, to reduce it below 100,000 by the time of the next election.

The declared ambition of the home track-and-field team, when the action gets under way in the showpiece Olympic Stadium on Friday, is to launch a new golden era and to take the public profile of British athletics back to the heady days of the 1970s and 1980s.

The declared ambition of some leaders of the country's biggest unions to use the election as a means of regaining effective control of Labour — and with it, the political and economic power they lost during the Thatcher years — has carried strong overtones of the years of Labour rule in the 1970s.

The reality has proved to be completely different, for the summit' s declared ambition that the institutions of the EU should be brought closer to the people turns out in reality to mean that the people of the Member States are ever more excluded by the closed institutions of the EU, which have fatally misunderstood the nature of democracy.

The F.A. has taken the first step towards their declared ambition of winning the World Cup.

As long as Bush and his party kept winning elections, however slim the margins, Rove's declared ambition to create a "permanent majority" seemed like the vision of a tactical genius.

VINCE CABLE, the business secretary, whose declared ambition is to break up Britain's biggest banks, is trying to cajole these leviathans into lending more to growing companies.

It's not the Corbyn project's declared ambition to rescue capitalism from its own stupidity, as FDR's New Deal did in the US of the 1930s (the rich hated him for it too), but perhaps it should be.

In line with this strategy and legal requirements, the plant has a declared ambition to deliver only Salmonella-safe animal feed materials to customers/animal feed mills.

Likewise, his declared ambition to have "the finest chicken run in the world", and his request for a backgammon board "for we must amuse our griefs.