He had a great ambition to promote Christian teachings and Bible reading among medical students.

For some, this approach will seem overly modest. But this is not yet the time for great ambition.

The Iranians regard themselves as the heirs to a great and ancient civilization, and their ambition of achieving regional preeminence reflects this.

Her ambition is to become an ambassador.

Her ambition is to become an ambassador.

China s ambition is marked by muscle flexing.

Layla was known for her intellect and her ambition.

What was unusual about Bo was his open ambition.

Greater equality reinforces the ambition for still more equality.

The question is whether it is an ambition too far.

When our ambition is bounded, it leads us to work joyfully.

You can sense its maturity and rising ambition in each episode.

It rewards ambition, promotes office at any cost politics, and devalues merit.

Peace was at the heart of the ambition of Europe s founding fathers.

This is a modest amount, but the initial ambition was also modest.

That ambition is to revive militarism and to achieve overseas expansion militarily.

No other country comes close to having either the capacity or the ambition.

Another test relates to the report's and, implicitly, the reform's level of ambition.

Indeed, today no European political figure of global stature offers an ambition that resonates.

Le Pen s ambition was always to save France, not to become Minister of Tourism.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

We must, however, reach several objectives and give clear signs of a true collective ambition.

But Japan has only pushed the aim to achieve its unilateral ambition through the talks.

The ambition was to improve significantly the lot of the planet s most disadvantaged citizens before 2015.

Putin s ambition to stay in power as prime minister is also rooted in this rebalancing act.

The French worry that NATO s global ambition, particularly in East Asia, could produce friction with China.

Tarek s ambition is to have a career in fashion. His hobbies include football, volleyball and painting.

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains

We resume our work today with the ambition of doing more tangible work than last year.

No matter how often Chinese leaders repudiate any hegemonic ambition, wariness about China s true intentions will remain.

India is not about to become a second China it lacks both the means and the ambition.

There can no longer be any reasonable doubt that Iran s ambition is to obtain nuclear weapons capability.

Indeed, in America the qualities that lead people to become immigrants initiative, ambition, risk taking are lionized.

This is a bit like ambition and drive I'm going to do that. I'm going to work hard.

In the spring of 2009, speaking in Prague, Obama advanced a bold ambition a world without nuclear weapons.

Japan has not given up its past ambition the dream of having the whole of Asia at hand.

Europe suffers from a shortage of leaders who can speak in its name from a shortage of ambition (what, after all, is the collective ambition of Europeans now that the EU is perceived more as part of the problem than part of the solution).

Equally important was the fact that all the countries concerned expressed an ambition to move closer to the EU.

The more economic power China has amassed, the greater its ambition to alter the territorial status quo has become.

Both historically compensated for their isolation with strong central governments, powerful navies, dynamic entrepreneurship, vibrant culture, and imperial ambition.

One tool of this ambition is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), under which the Sino Russian exercises took place.

The combustible mix of autocratic ambition and misguided idealism took hold soon after the terrorist attacks in September 2001.

The country prospered under his rule, but not peacefully, as his laws interfered with the ambition of powerful nobles.

Indeed it is Hamas's will to cleanse the region of all Jews it states that ambition in its charter.

This approach should favor China s global strategy, which is premised upon Xi s desire to build a new type of major power relationship between China and the US (the Chinese government prefers major power to great power, probably in order to highlight its stated renunciation of hegemonic ambition).