Sentence examples for traditional ambition from inspiring English sources

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His paramount foreign interest was to recover the holy places of Christ, a traditional ambition characteristically associated in his mind with the hope of converting the infidel: the Mongols or the emir of Tunis. Louis IX first took the cross in 1244, upon learning that a Turkish-Egyptian coalition had driven the Christians of the Levant back to precarious coastal positions.

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Yet, many guidance counselors are reluctant to bring up the option for fear of upsetting parents and their traditional college ambitions.

All the while, the progressive specialization of scientific disciplines and specific technical challenges triggered educational and research support for interdisciplinary projects, away from the traditional intellectual ambitions of global integration, from specific new projects to ambitious theories such as systems theory (Klein 1990).

The son of a goldsmith, he was an artist of traditional if vast ambition, who specialized in a seemingly modest and relatively young technology.

In advocating the containment of the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1946, he saw the challenge as that of stemming traditional Russian expansionist ambitions pressed by a leader who was unusual not in his ideology but in his ruthlessness.

Although it's true that globalisation has to be made to work for poorer communities, voters in the centre and in our traditional base share an ambition and an analysis: an ambition to get on in life, and an analysis that tells them that getting on is easier with the right kind of collective action on your side.

Hansen-Løve coolly refuses the traditional plot emphases of ambition, hubris and redemption, keeping the narrative arc subtly contained within her movie's ambient sound.

Newspaper columnists have taken to describing Mr. Stoiber's high-tech ambitions and traditional social agenda as "laptops and lederhosen".

Google executives have made no secret of their ambitions in traditional ad sales, saying they can save marketers money on print, radio and TV spots, while taking a commission in the process.

Other M-naturalists retain the normative and regulative ambitions of traditional philosophy, but emphasize that it is an empirical question what normative advice is actually useable and effective for creatures like us.

Are we intentionally spreading the philosophy that it is somehow more honorable to pursue traditional landmarks than individual ambitions?

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