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How to use the word ambitions in a Sentence?

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We quickly realized there was n’t an established value chain that would support our ambitions for the next 10 years.

– Sham Kunjur

Found on New York Times
9 months ago

We are not disarming ourselves against North Korea, but we are not closing the dialogue channel with North Korea … as long as North Korea is abstaining from their very strong nuclear ambitions.

– President Yoon Suk Yeol

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not about parents. It’s a tactic that DeSantis found really whipped up his base in Florida and so [Republicans] are taking it out for a run to see how it does. Their goal, it seems, is that these politicians are trying to turn parents against each other and make classrooms a battleground so they can further their political ambitions.

– Sarah Kate Ellis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

– Jack Kornfield

added by Normando
1 year ago

This year, ISIS-Khorasan expanded its ambitions outside Afghanistan with a handful of cross-border rocket attacks against Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and a foiled plot in India, its ambitions for attacking the West — possibly including the Homeland — remains a top intelligence priority, notwithstanding the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan last August.

– Christine Abizaid

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There are transformations taking place within Iraqi politics and rising ambitions from different parties who wish to consolidate power.

– Mohammed Shummary

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the motives for this conflict are primarily internal and not the divisions about Iran, there are transformations taking place within Iraqi politics and rising ambitions from different parties who wish to consolidate power.

– Mohammed Shummary

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm worried that they're accelerating their ambitions... to supplant the United States and our leadership role in the rules-based international order, which United States've long said that United States want to do that by 2050. I'm worried about them moving that target closer.

– Philip Davidson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This photo from Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, shows Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J., during a gubernatorial debate at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey( AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, Pool) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP A growing number of political prognosticators look at Phil Murphy as a potential 2024 Democratic White House hopeful should President Biden change Phil Murphy mind and announce Phil Murphy wo n’t seek reelection. Asked about any national ambitions in the upcoming presidential cycle, Phil Murphy answered that President Biden.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body. In the end, submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life.

– unknown

added by unochickie
1 year ago

We are moving on, we intend to...fulfill our true ambitions and destiny as an independent, developed, prosperous country.

– Andrew Holness

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are moving on, we intend to... fulfill our true ambitions and destiny as an independent, developed, prosperous country.

– Andrew Holness

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He's pushing for government intrusion into workplaces and doctor's offices. It's all in service to his presidential ambitions, republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is purposely picking fights that rev up Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis base. And the intention is to secure the loyalty of the base Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump share.

– Nadine Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I absolutely agree that the threat is increasing, i think our role is to try to provide insight from inside the intelligence community into the plans, the ambitions, the pace at which of adversaries – China or Russia – can move on these issues. It’s very important for us not to underestimate either the scope of those ambitions or the pace at which they can move. China and hypersonics is one example.

– William Burns

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If Ukraine falls to Russian President Vladimir Putin, it will set in motion dire consequences for us as a nation, china will get the signal that they can take Taiwan. The Iranians will be believe that we have no will to stop their nuclear ambitions. The converse is true. If the Chinese see the world rally around Ukraine and the rule of law being applied to Putin's war crimes maybe they won't go into Taiwan.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He has much larger ambitions in Ukraine. He wants to, in fact, reestablish the former Soviet Union.That’s what this is about, and I think that his — his ambitions are — are completely contrary to the place where the rest of the world has arrived.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He has much larger ambitions than Ukraine. He wants to, in fact, re-establish the former Soviet Union. That's what this is about.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a dangerous time because China, of course, wants to gobble up Taiwan, they have their own imperial ambitions in Asia.

– Josh Hawley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We need to be focusing our military power in Asia on China but we can walk and chew gum and we’ve got to show strength in Europe, this is a dangerous time because China, of course, wants to gobble up Taiwan, they have their own imperial ambitions in Asia.

– Josh Hawley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Where we see the sort of statement that was issued by the( Russian and Chinese) Presidents after the bilateral meeting, it is concerning because it doesn't present or represent a global order that squares with those ambitions for freedom and openness and sovereignty and the protection of territorial integrity.

– Xi Jinping

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He's certainly very capable, i don't know what his ambitions are.

– Dusty Johnson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The West needs every possible form of leverage that The West can get to dissuade Russia from invading Ukraine, russia's ambitions right now are huge and the explicit asks it has made of The West on returning troops to where they were in the early 90s and to close the door on NATO expansion, these are not in line with the West's values, so The West really can't give Russia what The West wants there.

– Vladimir Putin.Kristine Berzina

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.

– Jordan Peterson

added by Soulwriter
2 years ago

This idea that we're going to refit it to Joe Manchin's liking, the bill has already been retrofitted to Joe Manchin liking, let's make that extremely clear. The climate ambitions have been reduced because of Joe Manchin.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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