What is "ambitiously"

Usage examples of "ambitiously".

Stilicho obtained the preference over a crowd of rivals, who ambitiously disputed the hand of the princess, and the favor of her adopted father.

Honorius ambitiously derived their descent from the heroes who had repulsed the arms of Hannibal, and subdued the nations of the earth.

The Hungarians, who ambitiously insert the name of Attila among their native kings, may affirm with truth that the hordes, which were subject to his uncle Roas, or Rugilas, had formed their encampments within the limits of modern Hungary, in a fertile country, which liberally supplied the wants of a nation of hunters and shepherds.

The weaker candidate solicited the protection of Justinian, and ambitiously subscribed a treaty of alliance, which deeply wounded the independence and happiness of his country.

Whatever skill and courage could achieve, had been performed by the Roman general: it remained only that Justinian should terminate, by a strong and seasonable effort, the war which he had ambitiously undertaken.

Byzantine court, so ambitiously solicited by their dukes, would have degraded the magistrates of a free people.

It seemed to her that she must have looked at a cityful of dark, noisy rooms ambitiously called apartments, each more impossible than the others.

On slender stalks the yellow vetchling blooms, reaching ambitiously as tall as the lowest of the brambles.

Tuesday in a 27-count indictment involving ambitiously devious bank fraud.

He murmured expressions of greeting profusely as he showed them in, and for a race noted for its haughtiness, he managed to bow and scrape most ambitiously.

On the last verse he broke into a tremolo that soared above the music in a descant, embellished it with sly glissandos, rests and ritardandos, climbed ambitiously towards the highest and thinnest pitch of the instrument, and then fell back deliciously upon the sonorous middle range of the third and second strings.

He also quickly and very ambitiously commissioned focus groups at a dozen junior high schools across the country to see if interactive TV had a future.

It was the sort of room that he might have expected if he'd sat down first to consider her character: she had taken it ambitiously in hand, as she would Luis if he lived, and she had painted and slipcovered and decorated until it looked like one of those magazine photo stories captioned "Turning-an-Attic-Room-into-an-Apartment.