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Example sentences for: ambition

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The Italian papers, which see Turkey's human rights record as a serious impediment to its ambition to join the European Union, reacted with outrage Friday to a photograph issued by the Turkish government showing Ocalan blindfolded and manacled in front of the Turkish flag.
He has Prince Hal's political ambition and disloyalty to his old friends (without his heroism or rhetorical eloquence).
His assimilation, like that of many Czechoslovakian Jews between the wars, seems to have been motivated by a combination of fear, ambition, and patriotism.
This approach works fine when one's ambition is to build models that faithfully mimic particular biological phenomena.
Critics do express some reservations, mainly about the movie's length and overwrought emotion--as Roger Ebert writes, the film is "operatic in its ambition," and viewers should "[l]eave logic at the door.