"ambition" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He had no grandiose ambitions for this initial raid; it was simply to get the men doing something, rather than sitting around letting the weather deteriorate.
- But what makes him instantly contemporary are the eerily familiar details of his grandiose military ambition.
- That was a grandiose ambition of his, yet it seemed a credible one.
- We cannot wait until President Hussein is able to back his grandiose ambitions with nuclear arms.
- It is a grandiose ambition for a budding Chinese television host who began his career as an engineer and propaganda official.
- As time passed, Siegel's grandiose ambitions mushroomed into uncontrolled greed.
- In the Highlands the process has been all the more hurtful because the usurpers have so often been outsiders with grandiose ambitions.
- His administration was often referred to as Saudi Venezuela for its grandiose and extravagant ambitions.
- The reality of patronage at Christ's Hospital was in fact far more mundane than the grandiose ambitions upon which it had been built.
- Stopping suicide, he knows, "is a pretty grandiose ambition."
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