Something had to go, and that something was Guimet's original ambition.

His original ambition was to become a lawyer, but after two years of studying law, he began to lose interest.

On entering Radcliffe as an undergraduate, her original ambition was to be in the newspaper business.

He discovered that his original ambition of being a successful commercial painter had left him.

Yet the decision highlights the striking way the original cultural ambitions for ground zero have been scaled back.

As a second choice I became an optometrist, but still intended to pursue my original ambition.

"But we don't believe that they set out to fail in their original ambitions."

We understand that this agreement does not reflect every area of our original ambitions, but it is the best possible compromise for today.

That his company would actually realize its original ambition: how could that happen?

Her original ambition, she said, was to be a lawyer.