ambition

• burn ambition

• personal ambition

  They come second to his personal ambition and to the Conservative Party interest.

• ambition to become

  Their ambition to become the greatest busker of them all.

• only ambition

  ‘You know, the only ambition she ever had for me was to marry well and bring up the colour of the family.’

• modest ambition

  Merely staying afloat is a fairly modest ambition and one which recognises the Dyer theory, which I think Jonathon Porritt really gets wrong in his chapter.

• ambition to go

  In Peter Rogers's words, ‘He lost the ambition to go outside.’