Sentence examples for unambitious effort from inspiring English sources
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".
Those not unambitious goals include making a serious effort to end the scourge of war, reduce global poverty, stabilize the global environment and ensure basic human rights for everyone on the planet.
If getting a percentage point or two more high-achieving children into grammar schools is the extent of the government's ambition, it really isn't worth the effort they are putting into it – it is unambitious.
The sentence we thereby come to understand may say something simple and unambitious that could easily be said without resorting to metaphor, but the effort to recover this meaning has a cognitive value transcending that of the meaning itself.
It is part of a broad effort by President Nicolas Sarkozy to overhaul France's public university system, which has been called sclerotic and unambitious, by granting schools financial autonomy and pushing the increased use of performance measures.
That seems grossly unambitious!
Dependable, then – but unambitious.
It seems a bit unambitious.
Was he genuinely that unambitious?
It's unambitious and complacent.
