personal ambition

collocation in English

meaningsofpersonalandambition

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personal
adjective
uk
/ˈpɜː.sən.əl/us
/ˈpɝː.sən.əl/
relating or belonging to a single or particular person rather than to a group or ...
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ambition
noun
uk
/æmˈbɪʃ.ən/us
/æmˈbɪʃ.ən/
a strong wish to ...
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(Definition ofpersonalandambitionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A final personal consideration likely to encourage resignation-and thus discourage death in active service-ispersonalambition.
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At that time, for instance, one journalist castigated both men for failing to set aside theirpersonalambitionto pursue the goal of national defence.
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Pressures from higher echelons orpersonalambitionperhaps render participants compliant with linguistic or presentational changes whose significance is not immediately apparent.
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Therefore, international law must be enforced to protect individuals from leaders who use state institutions forpersonalambition, greed and nepotism.
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Many attempts at the formation of umbrella, coordinating and national coalitions for broad networks and coordination failed as a result of personal differences, arrogance, ethnic differences andpersonalambition.
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It is littered with characters whose desire to promote civil rights is often revealed to be the result ofpersonalambitionand vanity, but with whom we can still sympathize.
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It has been aboutpersonalambition, and nothing to do with the national interest.
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He may be a young man ofpersonalambition; he may be an old man of personal obsession.
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This is the fulfilment of apersonalambition.
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The scheme helps individuals to undertake projects that fulfil apersonalambitionwhile benefiting the wider community.
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The predominant concern is notpersonalambitionor preferment.
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I think he was utterly without anypersonalambitionor any of those lower motives which taint the lives of so many politicians.
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Nationalism is capable of supporting an overweeningpersonalambition.
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He has got nopersonalambitionnow apart from securing the unification and independence of his country.
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The first is that this question of defence is of secondary importance to the question of hispersonalambitionto resume power in this country.
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This really brings me to the question ofpersonalambition.
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I had a littlepersonalambitionin that era—to fly round the world by buying a ticket.
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On this occasion, at least, we would like you to set asidepersonalambitionfor once in favour of the collective interest.
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