Sentence examples for veiled ambitions from inspiring English sources
Far from omnipotent, he was a bureaucrat adept at defying federal and local restrictions.In this section Veiled ambitions The incredible bouncing boss Wheels within wheels Germany's African epic A Byzantine journey Calling Mr Caro ReprintsThe show has proved controversial.
In Florence, between 1500 and 1800, almost half of the female elite lived in convents; in Milan, three-quarters of the daughters of the aristocracy could be found with rosaries and wimples, piously enclosed.In this section Veiled ambitions The incredible bouncing boss Wheels within wheels Germany's African epic A Byzantine journey Calling Mr Caro ReprintsBut they lived in style.
It's not some kind of thinly veiled ambition, because by many yardsticks, in terms of personal business goals and creative goals and lifestyle goals, Mark is a person where you kind of scratch your head in bewilderment as to why he still wants to do it".
Leopold's thinly veiled colonial ambitions paved the way for the Berlin West Africa Conference (1884 85), which set the rules for colonial conquest and sanctioned his control of the Congo River basin area to be known as the Congo Free State (1885 1908).
A few people had sensed, before this, that Peyton's quiet manner veiled a fiercely determined ambition.
Eventually, a U.S. attorney with political ambitions, a thinly veiled Rudy Guiliani, hunts down Wall Street kingpins to prove his tough-on-crime cred.
But his ambition to be president was thinly veiled, and that was his undoing.
It was a thinly veiled attempt to circumvent peaceniks such as ElBaradei, and win support for the eradication of the Brotherhood, and his own political ambitions.
Others wore veiled masks.
