Alfred's educational ambitions seem to have extended beyond the establishment of a court school.

IN the spring our entertaining ambitions seem to grow along with everything else that is sprouting.

As if when his plan went wrong and she took over, all ambition and energy seemed to drain out of him.

He is optimistic about the future and his ambition seems to have few limits.

When construction began, the ambitions seemed to outdistance the possibilities.

For a while, no ambition seemed out of reach.

But his professional ambition seems mainly to be to live off his social celebrity.

Neither ambition seemed to him all that much to ask, but he'd been thwarted in both desires until now.

But such broad ambitions seem far from America's reach for now.

Whatever that is, his longer-term ambition seems to be increasingly clear.