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  • Even more important than sheer ambition, or perhaps it is one of ambition's hallmarks, was Davis's ability to put aside her East Coast theatrical snobbery and see movies as a different medium and moviemaking as a craft with different technical demands that she was determined to learn.

    Autobiographies by Actresses 2009

  • Surely you want Americans to believe that Obama is in the race because he believes that he would be a better president than HRC, and not just for ambition's sake, yes?

    Hillary: Pledged Delegates Can Switch Candidates 2009

  • Link ambition's like a sifting screen on an old farm plow

    it's my devil's luck to be introduced.... matociquala 2007

  • There isn't Hillary's air of ambition for ambition's sake or the self conscious populism of Edwards about him.

    Election Central Saturday Roundup 2009

  • What we saw instead was a man who was willing to sell his country down the river, you know, for his own ambition's sake.

    Mark Green: 7 Days: Brazile, Huffington, Reagan & Green on Why Obama Won So Big. 2008

  • By and large, most Americans reconcile ambition's high demands with real-world limits.

    Ambitious to Fault 2007

  • GOODWIN: I don't think -- I don't think ambition's the key word here.

    CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2007 2007

  • All terrorist do not work together, or have the same ambition's, or make claim's to the same target's; but they still all want to commit terror and push their envelope of political dominance.

    Pelosi and Conyers-- Smarter than Impeachment- 2006

  • For ambition's sake, they cashed in their chance to shower midday in a claw-footed bathtub, or to spy with a vengeance at courtyard transgressions like Rear Window 's L.B. Jeffries: One night, one editor called the cops when he saw a new mother leave her baby on the fire escape.

    See Ya, East 64th St.! 17 Giddy Years In Dotty Squalor 2001

  • The ANC was opposed to what he described as ambition for ambition's sake or for personal gain. lso of concern was a lack of management skills among officials in government departments.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

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