Sentences with phrase «lofty ambitions»

Such lofty ambitions didn't play well among analysts, investors, and some co-workers.

He's never shown lofty ambitions so it wouldn't be a huge blow to someone generally seen as a safe pair of hands.

The numbers for my property management company were already looking good and the trajectory was definitely heading towards my seemingly lofty ambitions.

I'm sorry, but set a reasonable but still lofty ambition, like making a couple games people like.

These are lofty ambitions beyond what most of the world's 2.5 billion people with no access to modern sanitation would expect.

The UK government's position paper is long on lofty ambitions for future collaboration, but the gory details suggest they will be extremely difficult to achieve

It was always going to be a difficult task for the Dutchman to satisfy the club's new owners, who have come in with lofty ambitions.

Quantic Dream's games have always had lofty ambitions in interactive storytelling, but the final products (Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls) generally don't have enough gameplay to justify sitting through their disappointing narratives.

Furthermore, Fabio Aurelio would be a fine player to have on the bench, but would look out of place in the first XI of a club with as lofty ambitions as Liverpool.

The road that Tasmania chooses will be critical as Australia seeks to fulfill lofty ambitions to become a «food bowl» for a rapidly growing middle - class in Asia.

As the first Lenovo - branded handset to run stock Android (version 7.1.1 Nougat), the 5.5 - incher comes with pretty lofty ambitions.

A record - breaking pilot with lofty ambitions aims to fly higher than ever before, and he won't be needing an engine

The fact they will get drawn straight into the group stages is of course a major plus point for them but with no doubt lofty ambitions held for the UCL just like it was for the Premiership, an extra 10 - 20 games against stern European opposition on Tuesday and Wednesday nights will certainly take it out of Leicester's thin - looking squad.

Jepsen, a former state senator from Stamford and a former state Democratic Party chairman, said he doesn't have similarly lofty ambitions.

Silver has been a stalwart of traditional liberalism and a check against Bloomberg's most lofty ambitions.

A hungry young Assistant DA, Kate Sacker boasts an ivy - league pedigree and lofty ambitions toward public service.

Though it is ultimately somewhat undone by its own lofty ambitions, this film is a mostly effective blend of supernatural thrills and character exploration.

So sure, Commander Cool 2 might not make a lot of sense and it may not have especially lofty ambitions but that doesn't stop it from being a heap of bite - sized, accessible fun all the same.

The concluding chapter in the story of superhuman monster - hunter - for - hire Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a mammoth, open - world fantasy game with admirably lofty ambition.

I don't know how lofty your ambition is but if you want your work to be taken seriously by anyone it will have to have a physical presence alongside other artists and within the commercial gallery system is a far more likely place for you to gain that recognition and be judged alongside your peers.

We don't usually write about art at Lofty Ambitions, but we do when there's a connection to science or to aviation and space exploration.

Lofty Ambitions Blog July 23, 2014 We spent eleven days in Santa Fe on our self - designed writing retreat.

It's pretty clear Spiral House had lofty ambitions for Troll & I and the developers were never quite able to achieve what they set out to accomplish.

Quantic Dream's games have always had lofty ambitions in interactive storytelling, but the final products (Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls) generally don't have enough gameplay to justify sitting through their disappointing narratives.

Those silly YouTube videos have pretty lofty ambitions, though: Brad wants them to bring more good into the world.

This is not a one - off and while it is not a consistent problem, it happens with way too much regularity for a side with such lofty ambitions.

A record - breaking pilot with lofty ambitions aims to fly higher than ever before — and, as Catherine Brahic discovers, he won't be needing an engine

CEO Elon Musk gained a valuable Chinese ally for its China expansion plans in March, when the Internet giant Tencent coughed up $ 1.78 billion for a 5 % stake in the US electric car maker with lofty ambitions.

We can never be certain we will achieve our lofty ambitions but we are sure to regret it if we never try.

He isn't that concerned with capturing a lot of market share out of the gate, he says, but has loftier ambitions to reduce the cost of capital, foster new companies and ultimately increase the equities pool in Canada as a whole.

Ironically, being good to yourself instead will bring you closer to achieving those lofty ambitions, says Daylle Deanna Schwartz, speaker, columnist, and author of 15 books, including «The Effortless Entrepreneur.»

Bailey has lofty ambitions.

If most of the dozens of exchanges competing today are just places to buy and sell coins, Circle has loftier ambitions: It wants to eventually help consumers turn their trading profits into a Tesla, a mortgage, or a portfolio of blue chips.

When we set aside our lofty ambitions for one second and look around, we find there are people who need us to give them advice, to speak words of encouragement to them, to smile once in awhile.

What's the lesson for those of us who follow sports, have some lofty ambitions for a startup, or just want to make it through the week at our current job?

Often it's women from very poor backgrounds who decide to remain childless, realizing that it's their best hope for upward mobility against strong odds; in a 1985 study of poor Southern high school students, the 16 percent who wanted no children were the ones with the loftiest ambitions, the ambitions that in other contexts we want such children to have.

A young Denver - based company has lofty ambitions to revolutionize the coffee industry through earthly means — incorporating the vegetative parts of fungi found in the root structures of mushrooms, called mycelium, to naturally alter flavor and mitigate negative qualities of bitterness in coffee.

In real life, the Big East had lofty ambitions.

Their lofty ambitions have been outlined at a club that owner Mike Ashley put up for sale last September when Newcastle was brought to its knees by the resignation of manager Kevin Keegan.

His lofty ambitions however far - fetched they might sound now should be lauded.

The German tactician impressed at previous club Borussia Dortmund but perhaps isn't the biggest name and certainly doesn't seem to match Neymar's lofty ambitions.

The question that remains is whether this lofty ambition can be achieved in the face of such relentless competition?

Can you see Walcott achieving this lofty ambition?

For any newly promoted side the immediate priority has to be survival, yet Newcastle's reputation, and that of their manager, suggests that loftier ambitions will be inevitable.

Why would Southhampton attempt to keep a disgruntled player who much like MS has loftier ambitions than the club can seemingly provide?

Despite these lofty ambitions, the reality is that finding funds to support vertical dance is a continuous challenge.