(n.) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
(n.) An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.
(v. t.) To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jubilant Democrats are eyeing so-called “red states” such as Georgia and Utah and expanding their ambitions to take both the Senate and House .
(2) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
(3) "My great ambition is to be president of a golf club where I am playing," he teased .
(4) So far, there is little sign of similar hubris at the Human Brain Project, a far more complex undertaking, but perhaps for the moment Markram's ambition is precisely what is needed.
(5) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
(6) Britain’s troubled relationship with the EU has provided Boris Johnson with nothing but fun since he first made his name lampooning the federalist ambitions of Jacques Delors as the Daily Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent in the early 1990s .
(7) President Obama's ambitions for new nuclear reductions?
(8) As Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, said when he published the initial white paper back in 2010: “At its heart, universal credit has a simple ambition – to make work pay, even for the poorest.
(9) "The player [Suárez] is amazing and I love his quality, commitment and ambition to play," said Mourinho.
(10) Some … actually dropped to the low end of their ambition ranges, which have led small island states to ask, 'Why is this?'
(11) Archbishop Eliud Wabukala of Kenya said the “truth [of the Gospel] continues to be called into question in the Anglican communion” and warned against “the global ambitions of a secular culture”.
(12) As important, if not more so, as his ambition to make exams tougher is his hostility towards other measures of ability, such as course work and controlled assessments.
(13) And Bristol, I guess, is following on because it has an ambition to become something similar.” According to Key, Bristol’s congestion problems are only as bad as those of other UK cities, and it’s “streets ahead” on walking and cycling .
(14) The company recently announced its ambition to reach a valuation of $50bn, but it is unclear how much Uber is worth if it has to start picking up expenses it has up to now pushed on to the shoulders of its drivers.
(15) If the ambition set out by the world’s heads of state in New York is ever to be achieved, the global tax system needs more than just a sticking plaster.
(16) But concerns about a slowing economy, jobs, civil rights and a lack of progress in the Kurdish peace process appear to have combined with worries that Erdoğan could assume quasi-dictatorial powers to thwart the president’s ambitions.
(17) Ian Macfarlane signals frontbench ambition after defecting to Nationals Read more But the deputy leader of the Nationals, Barnaby Joyce, pushed back at the criticism, saying it was not unprecedented for people to move between the Coalition parties and noted it was not as significant as ousting a prime minister.
(18) Susan Rice, US ambassador to the UN and a former frontrunner to replace Clinton as state secretary, saw her political ambitions cut short after she suggested that the attack could have originated from a spontaneous protest over an anti-Muslim US-made film.
(19) In this context, it is hard not to wonder whether a scheme on the scale and ambition of Packington, located as it is in a sea of valuable central London real estate, could ever be replicated.
(20) For Davutoglu, this ambition entails a "comprehensive" approach embracing enhanced economic, cultural and social ties as well as political and security relations.
Vision
Definition:
(v.) The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
(v.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve.
(v.) That which is seen; an object of sight.
(v.) Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of Isaiah.
(v.) Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
(v. t.) To see in a vision; to dream.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(2) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
(3) In the present study, 125 oesophageal biopsies obtained under direct vision at endoscopy from 22 patients with Barrett's oesophagus were systematically studied using fluorescence and peroxidase antiperoxidase single and double-staining immunocytochemical methods employing highly specific antibodies to localize the following peptide-containing cell types in Barrett's mucosa: gastrin, somatostatin, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, motilin, neurotensin and pancreatic glucagon.
(4) At this threshold there was no effect on reducing the rate of visual acuity overreferrals, but ten children with abnormal binocular vision were detected who were not referred by visual acuity criteria.
(5) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
(6) Case 3 was that of a 70-year-old female with left impaired vision and frontal headache.
(7) While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
(8) Adaptation at 10 deg eccentricity yielded slightly higher threshold elevations than for central vision.
(9) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
(10) Acini in the parotid gland of the North American mink (Mustela vision) are composed of seromucous cells that contain secretory granules of peculiar morphology.
(11) Drones and helicopter strikes are not equipped with political night-vision.
(12) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(13) A 40 year old female presented with secondary glaucoma and loss of vision due to anterior pole metastasis of breast carcinoma.
(14) We present a patient with unilateral progressive painless loss of vision leading to optic atrophy and blindness.
(15) Proposed guidelines for future research include the use of conceptual rather than operational definitions of visual spatial ability, greater attention directed at separating spatial from nonspatial task components, and studies examining basic mechanisms underlying spatial vision.
(16) Repeated replacements of keratoprostheses extruded or removed because of complications were possible with restoration of the vision obtained after the first implantation.
(17) Whatever else Scott is about, Waverley ends with a vision of Britishness and a British union.
(18) The external and internal rear-view mirrors of automobiles should be positioned within the binocular field of vision.
(19) We address this issue directly over a 5-log10-unit range of light levels covering scotopic, mesopic, and photopic vision.
(20) Ocular disorders had been found in 62% of the cases, commonly represented by blindness of one eye, decreased vision, papillar edema and eventually by occlusion of the retineal artery.