| Being overambitious increases the risk of falling short of generating enough wonga to retire on. |
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| It wasn't that he tried overambitious passes, because he often didn't manage to make the pass before he got tackled. |
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| You don't want to be too overambitious and be accused of being pretentious and too artsy. |
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| Latvia's attempts to get the ball forward quickly frequently ended in failure because of overambitious passes. |
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| Substantial weight loss is extremely difficult to achieve, and setting overambitious targets can reduce motivation. |
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| Then there is a baffled son, emotionally involved with an overambitious undertaker. |
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| I find some overseas prescriptions sound, some obvious, and some overambitious and pretentious. |
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| Much of this is due to overambitious expansion plans, according to chief executive Terry Playle. |
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| Unfortunately for France, his scheme was overambitious and his economic analysis riddled with flaws. |
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| However, experience suggests that exacerbation of symptoms may result from overambitious or overhasty attempts at exercise. |
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| You remember that overambitious roofs have collapsed, and that the superstition about walking under ladders is just common sense. |
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| The strategy is comprehensive but it looks overambitious for the resources allocated to it. |
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| That flood of rhetorical questions just goes to demonstrate how overambitious the plot is. |
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| All Lang's projects were on the grandest scale, too many of them overambitious. |
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| A year later he was facing electoral defeat, having been overambitious in almost every field. |
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| The supersize approach works for some of the songs, but by and large, these tracks suffocate under overambitious arrangements. |
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| We should perhaps not be overambitious as to what is achievable in the short term. |
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| The overambitious measurement indicators provided for in the programmes are another source of difficulty. |
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| Following a tax scandal, she publicly breaks with her dominant, overambitious father. |
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| It is true that the start-up report noted the overambitious nature of the objectives set by the programme. |
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| I think I was overambitious in the number of books I brought on vacation. |
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| The downside of this was that he was often indiscreet and overambitious. |
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| That at least is the conventional wisdom in Sacramento, where the report is characteristically seen as overambitious. |
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| Evaluations suggested that many projects had overambitious or unclear objectives from the outset. |
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| Given you believe it's overambitious, does that lend you to think it's going to fail like the others that have failed in the past couple of years? |
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| Targets may also have to be modified after an experimental period in order to ensure that they are not overambitious but realistic. |
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| Her plays have been eccentric, attitudinizing, overambitious. |
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| This can partly be explained by the start-up of a number of new programmes that appear to have set overambitious targets for the year. |
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| That is why the developing world as a whole will never sign up to an overambitious level of farm tariff cuts in the negotiations. |
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| Motivations or opportunities for employee fraud may include overambitious performance targets, annual bonus or incentive programmes, grievances, or lack of sufficient supervision or internal controls. |
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| To safeguard this trust through the perils of the times, primarily the perils of humanity's own overambitious actions, is not a utopian goal but rather the challenging responsibility to ensure the future of humanity on earth. |
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| The Piëch-Porsche clan controls both VW and Porsche, a sports-car maker that is now being folded into VW after the failure of an overambitious and highly leveraged reverse takeover. |
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| Mr Kato's supporters make no bones of the fact that they want their man to succeed him. The Hashimoto reforms that Mr Kato championed so eloquently now look overambitious. |
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| In European Union summits he has been underprepared and overambitious. |
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| The next moment he was unceremoniously dumped from the company, which then folded, the victim of overambitious expansion and Japanese competition. |
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| The fact that the public accepts such rates and does not just abandon all financial activities in a panic can be explained by overambitious expectations over future gains. |
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| Although activities such as mediation and reconciliation are overambitious for foreign local governments, sometimes they can act as a forum for dialogue and co-operation. |
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| However these projects must be targeted, and overambitious reforms that are not fully completed and that leave urgently needed changes incomplete must be avoided. |
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| Unrealistic planning also led to overambitious expectations and resulted in frequent project extension and some refunds because the funds were not spent as planned. |
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| The Commission overestimated the management capacity of the public authorities in Bulgaria and Romania and often agreed with their overambitious targets and deadlines. |
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| Specific challenges noted in programme design included weak logistical arrangements, inadequate monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, unrealistic programme and project assumptions, and overambitious designs. |
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| Due to overambitious objectives, the difficulty of the task and reordering of priorities, officials estimate that the project will take an additional 15 months to complete. |
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| Unfortunately, the final evaluation of the project, carried out in 2002, showed that it had been overambitious and had failed to achieve its objectives. |
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| The DWP have created a botched, overambitious, unworkable and utter shambles of a system. |
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| For the Alltrack models, make sure the exhaust and wheel-arch liners haven't been wrecked by overambitious off road antics. |
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| In the next breath, he called the Punjab government to carpet for its overambitious transport projects. |
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| Intense competition and overambitious expansion by foreign carriers that rule the market have saturated it, crowding Myanmar carriers out. |
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| The IOA was overambitious to even think of completing the bid formalities in a matter of few days. |
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| Overambitious stroke play contributed to three of the wickets, Northumberland rallying to post a total of 199-9, Gareth Breese scoring a half-century. |
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