ambitious goal
collocation in Englishmeaningsofambitiousandgoal
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ambitious
adjective
uk/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/us/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/
having a strong wish to be successful, powerful, ...
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goal
noun[C]
uk/ɡəʊl/us/ɡoʊl/
an area on a playing field, that usually has two posts with a net fixed behind them, where players try to send the ball in order to score in sports such as football ...
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(Definition ofambitiousandgoalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofambitious goal
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In any case, theambitiousgoalof getting the economic crisis under control could not be achieved.
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It has not been possible to achieve thisambitiousgoal.
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This is anambitiousgoalrequiring considerable efforts.
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Admittedly, this may seem like an overlyambitiousgoal.
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When thus formulated, hardly anyone will question this challenge, but the authors seem to have a moreambitiousgoal.
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Thus, theambitiousgoalof orthodox game theory, broadly defined, to identify a unique solution for each game, has been almost, but not completely, reached.
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Narrowing health gaps therefore represents a moreambitiousgoalthan remedying health disadvantages.
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This work is concerned with a moreambitiousgoalthan that discussed earlier.
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Our previous work has led us towards thisambitiousgoalof working on the algorithm of life.
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This is anambitiousgoaland one that some portions of the book achieve more fully than others.
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If readers take this text seriously and practice a healthy portion of the application activities, they should succeed in moving toward thisambitiousgoal.
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Achieving thisambitiousgoalwill be hard - there are many forums for contributing to the debate on pensions even within economics and finance.
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A moreambitiousgoalis to also explain actual language development, why the child goes through the particular stages she does en route to the adult target grammar.
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Obviously, trying to fuse together such a wide range of scholarly approaches and thematic preferences into a coherent reevaluation of this period is an extremelyambitiousgoal.
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It is an attempt at rather anambitiousgoalof providing a comprehensive semantic theory that accounts for vagueness and indeterminacy, variation among individuals, and so on.
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A moreambitiousgoalwould be to compare directly the economic growth of this century of globalisation to the growth of the period of disintegration in the early nineteenth century.
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Our proposal meets thisambitiousgoalas it aims at creating just such a patent.
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Do you really think that is anambitiousgoal?
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