6 sentences with 'ambitions'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ambitions and other words derived from it.
• « She had gone on to graduate school, I learned, but she had no ambitions to do a doctorate: her goal was to be a schoolteacher, and she wanted to devote herself to it as soon as possible. »
• « The Peloponnesian War ultimately curbed Athens' imperial ambitions and caused the Greeks to broaden their outlook towards non-Greeks; its effects were as much cultural as political. »
• « The threat from France was so great that even traditional enemies such as England and the Netherlands on the one hand and the Habsburgs on the other joined forces against Louis XIV, and after a long war, the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 forced Louis to abandon further territorial ambitions. »
• « Although its nominal control of the Holy Roman Empire was no more than a political façade in the 18th century, the Austrian Empire itself was by far the most important Germanic state, and Austria's Habsburgs were often the greatest threat to French ambitions on the continent. »
• « In turn, France and Russia created a strong alliance in 1893 largely to contain the ambitions of Germany, whose territory lay between them. »