Many ambitions combine and become part of a group spirit permeating the organization and reaching their fulfilment in the succession of leaders.
In the end, it has always come to be restored on the ruins of mighty empires, after the shocks and oscillations that it has suffered from the ambitions of conquerors.
The Great Elector, Frederick William, was the first to embody the territorial ambitions of his house.
If Germany emerges humbled and weakened for many a long year from a conflict in which the best-laid plans of victory will have been wrecked by unforeseen elements, the scaffolding of her ambitions will come down with a crash.
As regards the colonies, I grant that economic motives have counted for something in the ambitions of the Imperial Government.
This probably did not prevent her from cherishing the loftiest ambitions for herself, and above all for her eldest son, and from coveting the glory of the double crown.
Political ambitionsand the chase for popularity they leave to their eldest brother.
Few rulers had a clearer insight than he into the ambitionsthat they had not yet laid bare.
The Treaty of Bukharest, so far from allaying discord, only fomented the ambitions which precipitated the world conflict.
She'd learned many things, but all her efforts to improve herself had been centered in her ambitions for Boy.
Her heart fluttered with new emotions, new desires, ambitions to make herself worthy of the man she'd married.
From these man draws the greatest advantage from their superior size, and from the thickness of their shells.
Their voice, as it proceeds from a large flock at some distance off, is clear and shrill, producing a pleasant harmony.
It came to him with the benumbing effect of a blow that his ownambitions had persistently looked beyond the mere money-making results of his scheme.
It was just before this pregnant event that Napoleon had freed his mind to Roederer concerning the ambitions of Joseph and his family in general.
The silent legislature was filled with the majority of those whose ardent and uninstructed ambitions were easily muzzled by the tenure of place, and found a sufficient vent in casting a voiceless vote.
As hisambitions became dominant he defied the Directory, and in 1797 left standing the framework of the papal edifice, because he already saw that the French people had returned to papal allegiance.
It was ostensibly intended to allay the distrust of the latter's ambitions expressed in many quarters, and was gratuitously distributed everywhere throughout France.
The greatest danger to Bonaparte's ambitions was that he should by some mishap become identified with a party.
His ambitions were strengthened by her faith in him.
For the last month she had made Roland's return a focus for the ambitions and desires and yearnings towards an intenser way of living, for which of herself she had been unable to find expression.
I was thinking of family and friends, pleasures and memories and ambitions and hopes.
It fired the ambitions of star scholars about to recite hymns and sing solos.
But even then your aims and ambitions would be rather lofty for the billet.
The very fact that you should have these ambitions when you are beginning to do well out here, that in itself is enough for me.
To Robert Walpole, Berkeley's plans and hopes would naturally seem about as deserving of the attention and aid of practical men as the ambitions of Don Quixote.
Berwick was well deserving of a death in some nobler struggle than the trumpery quarrel got up by ignoble ambitions and selfish, grasping policies.
And yet for us now, accustomed to the buffets and ambitions of life in the open, that pre-natal vegetative dream seems worthless and contemptible, and hardly deserving the name of existence.
The obscurity, my dear child, of your own aspirations, your mysterious ambitions and esthetic views.
In the light of the ambitions of the present day, the scornful indifference of the colonists to rank, even among those entitled to it, is curious.
He was a fellow of some intelligence, and, while essentially of the manufacturing class, he had, perhaps owing to his education, ambitions to be associated with the older families of the county.
The day's election, his longing to keep away from vulgar quarrels, all his ambitions became forgotten in the passion of the moment.
Hitherto he had not realised what his ambitions meant.
This would be looked upon by any of Old Phin's followers, should they see the boys, as in keeping with what the patrol leader had told the moonshiner about the doings and ambitions of Boy Scouts.
She laughed at danger, laughed at the weaknesses and foibles of men, when he told of the political and social ambitions which stirred mankind in the outside world.
The social ambitions of the wealthy Mrs. Hawley-Crowles threw wide the portals of the world to Carmen, and she entered, wide-eyed and wondering.
And the greatest good comes to men only after they have learned the nothingness of the material ambitions and aims which they have been pursuing.
No dubious aspirations or ambitions stirred their breasts.
And the mother would accept the sacrifice, for her love for her little son was clouded by her great ambitions in respect to his earthly career, and her genuine solicitude for his soul's eternal welfare.
In the course of time the priest became irritating; later, annoying; and finally, positively dangerous to the ambitions of Wenceslas.
Wilton Ames had reached the zenith of her ambitions and was the acknowledged leader in New York's most fashionable social circle.
Why was she born with these ambitions and aims and capabilities and the ardent desire to do something?
It was not altogether a weak face but intensely commonplace; the sort of woman who has no ambitions beyond the ordinary round of life.
Then the girl would meet Edith who would turn about and walk with her and listen to the hopes and ambitions and dreams she could tell to no one else.
I watched closely its deliberations, had several friends among the delegates, and was in a position to see at close hand the play of jealousies and ambitions which made its work futile.
There can be no doubt that the devil here represents the natural ideal of Faustus, or of any child of the Renaissance; he appeals to the vague but healthy ambitions of a young soul, that would make trial of the world.
Then of his ambitionsin Parliament, and finally of the Proclamation.
If his ambitions had been the cause of his sin, to bury them would be the true expression of his repentance.
I will never write another note of music as long as I live, and from this hour onward my ambitions are at an end.
Well, not exactly anger but I was getting more and more convinced that this man's ambitions is nothing else but a blow to McKinley's death and he wants to get a third term and he shouldn't have it, and that is all.
But, gentlemen of the jury, now came the time when a man's ambitions blindfolded him to all reason.
The two great American political parties have since guarded this tradition most jealously, have regarded it as a safeguard against the ambitions of probable adventurers.
Oh, dear people, so often our ambitions are not worth while.
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