In London, an aging Queen Elizabeth (Bette Davis) awaits him with love, but also with fear, because of his popularity with the commoners and his consuming ambition.

"Auto City 2000," a theme park being built at a cost of nearly $400 million near Volkswagen headquarters here, is a testimony to Mr. Piech's consuming ambition.

Snagging a husband, any husband, is their consuming ambition, unless they can't tolerate the thought of one.

His weeks of fighting a fight he understood but poorly, hunger, and lately thirst, years of feeding on a consuming ambition, these left him with little ability to enjoy his goal when it arrived.

It begins in 1980, with a parking lot encounter between Mr. Harris and Larry Huff, a voluble young man whose consuming ambition is to be "on the tube, the set, television."

It is revealed that Exley's consuming ambition is fueled in large part by the murder of his father by an unknown assailant.

Mann's Hepburn sustains her nearly 70-year career from a consuming ambition to become and stay famous, what she herself called a "wild desire to be absolutely fascinating."

WHERE WILL BREEDEN'S consuming ambition take him?

I thank Buddha that General Vorkuta possessed the strength of spirit and the consuming ambition that I saw nesting inside her She acted, yes, she acted.

It was revealing itself all too clearly as a consuming ambition: an ambition strong enough to make him starve himself, take orders from a woman, and perform what were evidently miracles of self-discipline, considering that it was probably the first time in his life that he had had to use any.