ambitious politician
collocation in Englishmeaningsofambitiousandpolitician
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ambitious
adjective
uk/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/us/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/
having a strong wish to be successful, powerful, ...
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politician
noun[C]
uk/ˌpɒl.ɪˈtɪʃ.ən/us/ˌpɑː.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/
a member of a government or ...
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(Definition ofambitiousandpoliticianfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This provides an open field for ambitious politicians who can play on the emotions of an immature electorate and encourage aspirations quite divorced from reality.
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Indeed, ambitious politicians may prefer their public to know them by one name rather than the public having to get used to knowing them by another.
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It is now a huge, shapeless, menacing mass, without policy and without ideals, a prey to ambitious politicians, and on the verge of a collapse into anarchy.
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He thought that without this new decree the world would never be rid of envious and ambitious politicians.
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I said that a young,ambitiouspoliticianhas his opportunities to use the normal processes of democracy which we have all enjoyed ourselves.
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I do not blame him: he is anambitiouspolitician.
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In the hands of anambitiouspolitician, it gives rise to self-delusion, followed by deceit, ending up in catastrophe.
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But in public life he is a ruthless dictator, anambitiouspolitician, and an adept at diplomatic poker, as we have discovered.
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That would have been unwise for a highlyambitiouspoliticianlike myself.
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My view is that there is a species of able, thrusting, honourably but intenselyambitiouspolitician who wants to erect memorials to himself, or herself.
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The incumbency of theambitiouspoliticianwent along with the decline of both states.
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When new forms of media emerge, ambitious politicians take advantage of them to change the agenda and advance their career.
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All ambitious politicians wanted to be nominated, but internal battles over the candidacies would have made the party more vulnerable to opposition challenges.
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This had the effect of allowing the president control over a smaller number of ambitious politicians and excluding popular, powerful state executives from contention.
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The power of the president over nominations and the overall lack of opposition gave the chief executive the power to determine the future career paths of his party's ambitious politicians.
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Please, let us not replicate what we have here; we must not create a new cadre of young, ambitious politicians.
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They have clearly shown that they will not be the puppets of any ambitious politicians.
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It is fashionable, especially for ambitious politicians, to say that political stability must precede economic security.
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