The other narrative is of mobility in the service of ambition.
Their authors promise that your spirit will be improved, your ambition honed, and your finances maximized by their advice.
And it led him in his teenage years to declare his ambition to become a cop.
Reid planted a flag, ready to make his mark in the world of whisky, backed by ambition and a gorgeous piece of land.
He made little secret of his ambition to become the next prime minister, much to the chagrin of Netanyahu.
No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions.
She had won her ambition of years, revenge on the man who had sent her to prison.
But ambition is foreign to the Shakespeare-Hamlet nature, so the poet does not employ it.
It was once my ambition to visit one by one every noteworthy spot in France.
The first was addressed to the fears of the Athenians, the second to their ambition.
mid-14c., from Middle French ambition or directly from Latin ambitionem (nominative ambitio) "a going around," especially to solicit votes, hence "a striving for favor, courting, flattery; a desire for honor, thirst for popularity," noun of action from past participle stem of ambire "to go around" (see ambient).
Rarely used in the literal sense in English, where it carries the secondary Latin sense of "eager or inordinate desire of honor or preferment." In early use always pejorative, of inordinate or overreaching desire; ambition was grouped with pride and vainglory.
