ambition

1 - Long term final outcome targets include highly ambitious goals of eliminating death and serious injury in the road traffic system.

2 - Advancement did not satisfy ambition, but created the desire for further advancement.

3 - Before the time of Plato ambitious young Athenians depended for their higher education upon the Sophists.

4 - The male role, as socially defined, requires man to appear tough, objective, ambitious, and unemotional.

5 - By the 1990s, several laboratories in the West were engaged in the most ambitious medical research ever attempted: the mapping of the human genome, that is, the entire architecture of chromosomes and genes contained in basic human DNA.