Sentence examples for unambitious from inspiring English sources

For context, Australia's unambitious plans to cut emissions by 5% by 2020 would see the country's carbon footprint reduced by about 159m tonnes from expected levels without the target.

She said a new target of answering 80% of calls within five minutes was "woefully inadequate and unambitious" and warned that proposals to cut customer-facing staff by 8,500 posed a real risk to the department being able to improve standards.

This dish is huge and fantastic in flavor, if slightly run-of-the-mill, even unambitious.

As a socialist, middle-class aspirations now seemed decidedly unambitious.

Yet it can seem demeaning and unambitious.

(Nobody now seems so unambitious as to build them one at a time).

And the thieves are not always unambitious amateurs.

The proposed income tax cuts (down to a top rate of 48.5%) are unambitious.

The leader of the opposition, a little-known physicist from east Germany called Angela Merkel, derided it as unambitious.

In the grand scheme of things, it is unambitious; but when the peace process is stalled, perhaps the only way forward is one shrimp at a time.

One risk is that the negotiators settle for the lowest common denominator: an unambitious effort to reduce support for the rich world's farmers coupled with even fewer demands on poor countries, in the name of "special and differential treatment".