But as developments in Mississippi last week demonstrated, the region's noble ambitions are still weighed down by the transgressions of the past.

Jacob had a noble ambition to be put in a Sunday school book.

But whatever there once was of ardent and noble ambition in the great author's eyes had been somewhat quenched by successes.

Your part is very easy if you are just one of the volunteer precinct workers-a noble ambition in itself!

Ballet Builders has a noble ambition: to give choreographers the chance to show their work in a professional setting.

A noble ambition and one of which I am sure he would approve.

Surely it's a noble ambition to put one's community ahead of one's desire for personal aggrandisement.

Frankly, you deserve to have been given a nobler ambition.

San Francisco has always dreamed grandly, and had noble ambitions for itself.

It is a deeply noble ambition to force consumers to think about the treatment of the workers who make their clothes.