"Grand ambitions" refers to having great dreams, goals, or aspirations that are big and significant.
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However grand their ambitions, no - one here successfully manages to escape the grips of circumstance, of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Nursing
grand ambitions of her own, Nina sets her sights at Trigorin, who is never one to turn down firm young flesh.
Amazon has much
grander ambitions for Alexa than just having the voice assistant present in every home, in the car, and on pretty much every smart product out there.
Henry (Jason Clarke) and Laura McAllan (Carey Mulligan) are farmers
with grand ambitions whose faith is tested by circumstances beyond their control, while neighbours Hap and Florence Jackson (Rob Morgan, Mary J Blige) endeavour to build a small dream of their own — despite the harsh social prejudice they face.
The idea of videos on Facebook may make you think of creative recipes or funny pets, but the social networking site has
far grander ambitions for its new video platform.
But like myself and Stillman, he would have serious reservations about the type of
grand ambition on offer in THE DOORS or ALMOST FAMOUS.
The prospective new owner, Ahasan Ali Syed, is ready to pump huge sums of money into the club and has repeated the
same grand ambitions that others have previously proclaimed elsewhere.
Although his entire career has been focused on looking at the sky and
pursuing grand ambitions, part of Lewicki's motivations remain down - to - Earth.
Despite being peppered with strong writing and moments of pathos and comedy, The Nix eventually starts to teeter under the weight of its
own grand ambitions.
Bankers, their narcissism stoked by a culture that
awarded grand ambition above all, lost the capacity to distinguish between their ego - fuelled dreams and concrete results.
Yet he had
grand ambitions including a quest for immortality which he believed could be achieved when man possessed both male and female sexual characteristics.
Once the great hope of the «clean coal» industry, the Kemper plant's
grand ambitions now appear dead for good.
Coinbase and Bitmain, each valued over $ 1 billion, are
showing grander ambitions than many people in the cryptocurrency space might have expected.
In this surprisingly emotional and powerful musical drama from Damien Chazzelle, Miles Teller has
grand ambitions of becoming one of the world's elite jazz drummers, and J.K. Simmons» unforgettable Fletcher has every intention of breaking those dreams into teeny, tiny little pieces.
His signature domestic policy initiative would have made LBJ smile, as NCLB extended ESEA and infused it with an
even grander ambition.
Macron's honeymoon may be over, but after his fledgling party's big parliamentary win in June,
his grand ambitions might just be in reach.
Today, Nader Al - Naji is the CEO of Basis — a hot cryptocurrency startup, with
grand ambitions to replace regular money, and which recently took in a $ 133 million investment round from firms including GV (formerly Google Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
When it comes to sustainability, Copenhagen has
grand ambitions and wants to be carbon neutral by 2025.
Cups has
grand ambitions.
The U.S. needn't «control» Iraq; all it need do is disrupt anyone else's
grand ambitions or access to the oil.
«We can all benefit by cultivating
a grand ambition, a goal that is big enough to stretch our vision beyond our current horizon and important enough that it fuels our tenacious effort.»
The move is hardly a surprise given the recent mania that has seen companies use ICOs (also known as token sales) raise tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars even though, in many cases, their business consists of little more than
grand ambitions and a white paper.
The company is currently looking to hire 22 to 25 new employees, and has
some grand ambitions for this year.
In the process, he and Morgan Stanley are becoming the face of what may be Wall Street's future: highly profitable, to be sure, but with fewer of
the grand ambitions or larger - than - life personalities that have always characterized the place.
With hefty debt and few assets to buy, it's hard to see Altice achieving
its grand ambitions.
Fast forward to today, and the Foster's board now chaired by David Crawford has abandoned
its grand ambitions to run a multi-beverage alcohol company - something shareholders, staff and customers called for years ago - and will split the businesses into two listed entities.
It also gave them a chance to consider that
their grandest ambitions, and the 2005 college football season, would turn on what happened next.
Back then it looked like Amanda Staveley and PCP Partners were edging towards a deal to buy Newcastle United with
grand ambitions.
In July, I shared with
you my grand ambition of finishing a knit sweater for everyone it my family by Solstice.
«Much more than that, I don't have
any grand ambitions for the future other than to do my bit.
Both his immediate successor, Hailemariam Desalegn, and Meles» long - time de facto deputy Seyoum Mesfin (co-designer of the security and energy policy as minister of foreign affairs for almost two decades) fully supported Zenawi's
grand ambitions.
During my third year, I had
grand ambitions to genetically manipulate plants, only to discover that after treating thousands of seeds, I obtained just one plant I could use for experiments.
To achieve
their grander ambitions, such as creating algae capable of churning out fuel for cars, genetic engineers are now trying to make far more sweeping changes.
And he has always had
grand ambitions.
That's because they sound a lot like
the grander ambitions of science, particularly of those branches that seek a «theory of everything».
What defined Einstein, what made his apotheosis possible, was
the grand ambition that enabled him to turn his extraordinary talents to the largest mysteries available.
Smith Lewis says Cerego's
grand ambition is to «handle learning and relearning for the duration of the user's lifetime».
When it comes to tackling climate change, President Barack Obama once had
grand ambitions, including forging a global deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and persuading Congress to enact legislation that would impose fees on U.S. carbon pollution.
Despite
its grand ambitions, EuroParc is an easy place to miss.
These are
grand ambitions that we share with many other nations, in our region and beyond.
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My grand ambition is to produce work that ends up finding its way to the clinic.
Phrases with «grand ambitions»