Collocations withambition
These are words often used in combination withambition.
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artistic ambition
However, since the next paragraph again shows, this de-spatialisation nevertheless led to the birth of a new artistic ambition.
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career ambition
The report focuses on the comparison between career ambition and eventual destination, presenting this in the framework of career identities.
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lack of ambition
Its lack of imagination and lack of ambition are amazing.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
literary ambitions
Those de luxe songbooks combined songs with the very latest poetry, and they even attest to the growing literary ambitions on the part of the poets who wrote the songs.
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lofty ambition
Wildly popular with her students, she manages education like a career, with lofty ambitions of scaling the career ladder.
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musical ambition
He also gave piano lessons for extra income, finally affording a grand piano suitable to his musical ambitions.
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personal ambition
A final personal consideration likely to encourage resignation-and thus discourage death in active service-is personal ambition.
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political ambition
These leaders would come to construct enclaves governed by party-states-conflations of the state apparatus with those institutions regulating political ambition.
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territorial ambition
They have no territorial ambition in that country, which they would wish to be free and independent.
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Hansard archive
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ultimate ambition
They will be penalised because they will have to take out a four-year loan in order to achieve the ultimate ambition of entering primary education.
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Hansard archive
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