Synonym: aspiring, intent upon, set on. Similar words: ambiguous, exhibition, bumptious, various, obvious, envious, curious, dubious. Meaning: [-ʃəs] adj. 1. having a strong desire for success or achievement 2. requiring full use of your abilities or resources.
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211. Agrippina is considered to be the murderer, because she was ambitious for her son, Nero, and Claudius had become suspicious of her intrigues.
212. Back in 1871, local wine merchant Alfred Speer patented the first "endless-travelling sidewalk", and promptly proposed an ambitious elevated moving walkway along Broadway.
213. The Census of Marine Life's ambitious goal is to document all life in the oceans, a task made even harder by creatures that are very difficult to tell apart, such as this little isopod.
214. Space Shuttle Endeavour has launched on an ambitious mission to deliver a new science laboratory and robotic system to the International Space Station.
215. Japan has an increasingly ambitious space programme and last month began to set up its first space laboratory, which was blasted off on the US space shuttle Endeavour.
216. From the riverbank we turned toward the uplands and began retracing the migration route of one of his animals, an ambitious female he had labeled E.
217. Diderot, the patron of vast collaborations around a great, hugely ambitious goal, would be proud.
218. So he who would not exploit or contribute to the cause of war must cease to follow tradition, cease to be greedy, ambitious, self-seeking.
219. The United States is implementing a comprehensive policy that employs ambitious near term domestic measures to address climate change.
220. Researching in the archives, they discovered that the shipbuilder's ambitious plans to build three large ships at the same time had put a huge strain on its shipyard.
221. Good career plan for future into a multinational company with ambitious and friendly team.
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222. Only a few years after Darwin's return, Hooker was off on his own adventures, an ambitious slingshot around Antarctica aboard HMS Erebus and Terror.
223. The TPP was already as ambitious as any trade negotiation in the world.
224. If there is interest in a multi-purpose utility that a user can customize, then maybe a more ambitious, configurable approach is needed.
225. Socrates died when Golden Age Athens – an ambitious, radical, visionary city-state – had triumphed as a leader of the world, and then over-reached herself and begun to crumble.
226. As President, Obama has emerged with a decidedly ambitious agenda, and an all-out first-year push for universal health care, the goal that eluded five of his Democratic predecessors, is part of that.
227. In 1979 the Canadian-American mathematician Robert Langlands developed an ambitious and revolutionary theory that connected two branches of mathematics called number theory and group theory.
228. Go-getter Mars zips into Gemini, firing you up with ambitious energy until August 2.
229. Already LittleBigPlanet 2 is looking hugely ambitious, extending its scope beyond platforming and so far astounded every time we've seen it.
230. And psychologists say ambitious younger women are also becoming less likely to pair off with someone significantly older than them.
231. Being ambitious, he always had an eye to the main chance.
232. Mm. Her husband is an unpleasant person, too. Very ambitious. He wants to be the chairman of the board.
233. And they are humbled by the task of transforming so many ambitious individuals and obstreperous regions into a harmonious but innovative whole.
234. So for trade publishers, ambitious digitisation has become the norm.
235. King Pyrrhus of Epirus was an ambitious ruler whose aim was to revive the empire of his second cousin, Alexander the Great.
236. It should have taken place in Arnhem, the site of World War II's infamous "bridge too far, " where an overly ambitious Allied battle plan ended in disaster.
237. He argues that Bismarck's misogyny stemmed from his childhood when he found himself in a triangle between his cold, intelligent and ambitious mother, whom he disliked, and his weak, kindly father.
238. Revised and polished over two decades, that work became "Jitney", part of an ambitious series of ten plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century and all save one in the Hill District.
239. seen on actor Tom Cruise, was sported by almost 9 percent, who were ambitious, courageous and clear-thinking.
240. Hot on his heels came the ambitious Titian, who had graduated from Bellini’s workshop around 1506 and become a student of Giorgione’s.
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