In [2, § 9] there is a general result of Fulton and Lazarsfeld relating the homotopy groups of a subvariety of Pc in a certain range of dimensions with those of its pullback under a holomorphic map in the corresponding range of dimensions. It is asked in [2, § 10] whether here is a corresponding result with P n c replaced by a general rational homogeneous manifold, Y, and with the range of dimensions alluded to above shifted by the ampleness of the holomorphic tangent bundle of Y in the sense of [4]. In this paper we use the techniques of [4,5,6,7] to answer this question in the affirmative.Let us first recall the notion of ^-ampleness for holomorphic vector bundles [4; see 1 also]. When k -0 this notion coincides with ampleness in the sense of Grothendieck-Hartshorne. Since all the bundles for which we need this notion are spanned, the definition takes a very simple form. Let £ be a holomorphic vector bundle on a compact complex manifold that is spanned at all points by global holomorphic sections. E is k-ample if for each subvariety Z ci X such that E\ z has a trivial quotient bundle, it is true that dim Z < k.