ambitious target
collocation in Englishmeaningsofambitiousandtarget
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ambitious
adjective
uk/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/us/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/
having a strong wish to be successful, powerful, ...
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target
noun
uk/ˈtɑː.ɡɪt/us/ˈtɑːr.ɡɪt/
an object shot at during shooting practice, often a circle with a pattern of rings, or any object or place at which bullets, bombs, etc. ...
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(Definition ofambitiousandtargetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But the author has a moreambitioustargetof attack, the economists and historians whom he groups as "radical left scholars".
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Anambitioustargetof ten million tonnes of raw sugar - double the annual average of the 1950s - was set for 1970.
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Uriagereka has anambitioustargetfor his potential audience : everyone from the educated layman to the specialist syntactician.
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Again anambitioustargetof resettling 91,000 families in five years was set, and a complex institutional framework (involving linking eight ministries) was elaborated.
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That is anambitioustarget, but it is right to set ambitious targets.
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That is anambitioustarget, but we must achieve it.
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Many of us think that that is anambitioustarget.
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The advisory group will be considering ways of achieving such anambitioustarget.
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We thus have every reason to try to achieve this very important andambitioustarget.
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We also set anambitioustarget: to reduce poverty by half by the year 2005.
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That is anambitioustarget, but we must have such ambition.
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I must say that that sounds to me like anambitioustarget.
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I too believe that we should stick with ourambitioustarget.
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That is anambitioustarget, but we believe that we can reach it.
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That seems to me anambitioustargethaving regard to all of the people involved.
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Our strategy for achieving thisambitioustargetis clear.
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With the best will in the world, that is a hugelyambitioustarget.
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That is anambitioustarget, but one for which the money is now available.
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Ourambitioustargethas made us a leading voice in the preparations for that conference.
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