| It is remarkable how he was able to fulfil this ambition with such remarkable success in so many areas. |
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| The couple's career path so far demonstrates their ambition and eagerness to grow their business. |
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| Manchester United's ambition is to assume greatness by winning several times a competition that Rangers are just privileged to be part of. |
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| He gave her the ability to cast, thinking it would satisfy her ambition and keep her as a bewitcher of men for as long as possible. |
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| Honour, duty and order had always driven him, and earned him worldly success despite that relative lack of ambition. |
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| It has a strong army, a yearning for law and order, and a burning ambition to belong to the world's Great Powers. |
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| His ambition fueled him onward, rendering him immune to pain or trivial distractions. |
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| Given his unfulfilled ambition to construct a biology of the mind, Freud would have approved. |
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| Becky fulfilled another ambition to cuddle a koala at Australia Zoo, home of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin. |
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| To handle any subject sensitively is an admirable ambition, but he is having none of it. |
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| But he is confident that Everton have the potential to help him realise that ambition. |
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| He may be amused by the idea but in reality it would never suit a man with such unabashed ambition. |
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| Curiously, her mother never saw it either and died at a ripe old age with that particular ambition unfulfilled. |
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| This is the theatrical ambition of every comic actor who dreams of going beyond comedy to tragedy. |
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| Steven, a pupil at Wentworth High was an army cadet and his ambition was to become a soldier. |
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| I am somewhat miffed that if I am ever to achieve this ambition, I will have to put up with rather too much of this idiot's writings. |
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| I am sure all three of you were besotted with quiz programmes and the ambition to be successful on a major television show. |
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| The development of western civilization is predicated on the ambition to achieve mastery over nature and to manipulate it unrestrictedly. |
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| Born in 1963 in Setubal, an industrial town south of Lisbon, his earliest ambition was to be a footballer like his father. |
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| Judging by the way they are wiping the floor with good opposition these days, it's hard to argue that Leigh won't achieve their ambition. |
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| The summit of ambition for most men of his kind is to live in town when they are old, with everything on tap. |
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| Her estimation of the revolutionary importance of her ideas was perhaps excessive, but Joyce admired her ambition and her savoir faire. |
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| He arrived with attitude as well as ambition, but those who were offended at the time concede now that he has the game to go with it. |
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| In Murphy's account, the mainspring of Douglas's public career was his aching, but never fulfilled, ambition for the presidency. |
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| Anyone and everyone who has spoken to the Prime Minister lately can have no doubt as to the ambition. |
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| But Martin balanced his ambition with an ear for winning melodies, well-turned phrases, dry wit, and an undercurrent of moroseness. |
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| And it is this disdain for the other kind of ambition that has led observers to describe him as unserious. |
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| Healthy ambition is a fine quality, but winning at all costs can alienate even the most devoted admirers. |
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| But since the state stood to benefit far more than any individual politician, no one took his ambition amiss. |
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| What is happening here is electrifying people with ambition throughout the world. |
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| Now, if I get some MP to sign a letter, it feels like I've achieved my life's ambition. |
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| The single abiding ambition of my life was to be as good a father as I could. |
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| Matt left his native Birmingham a year ago to pursue his ambition of being part of a band. |
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| He now has a job, home and family and has developed into a responsible, caring father with ambition. |
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| So is it personal ambition that's driven her to scale the upper heights of the ministry? |
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| Unlike world leaders she was not driven by raging ambition or a desire to improve society. |
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| He's been good at everything he's turned his hand to because of his determination and ambition. |
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| This untrendy middle-class haven, throbbing with ambition again, is an economic and political boon to New York City. |
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| This dedication came not through ambition, or from a search for glory, but through his real generosity of spirit, through love. |
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| The result of years of research, the book portrays the regent as a woman of ambition, taste, and faith. |
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| Publicly affable, his home life seems to have taken the brunt of his drive and ambition. |
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| His energy and ambition are astonishing, yet he emerges from this exhibit as a secondary, if engaging, figure. |
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| It has less independence than the body it replaced but more ambition and more resources. |
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| In nineteenth-century France, artists of high ambition sometimes expressed impatience with easel painting. |
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| Julie's success is based on driving ambition, a deprived childhood and hard graft. |
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| After a sickly childhood, he entered manhood with uncommon zest and ambition. |
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| This requires a bit more brainpower, time, and ambition than I have today, but I think I will try to tinker with it soon. |
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| On the other hand, it would be surprising if they had equal levels of ambition. |
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| An ambition to succeed and surpass one's predecessors is the driving force behind the emulative impulse of repetition as paragone. |
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| She arrived in 1920s Paris with nothing but talent, ruthless ambition and her own inimitable style. |
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| During the course of Citizen Kane, the hero marries two women and his ambition drives them away. |
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| Most dangerous of all is that this will encourage those whose ambition outstrips their ability. |
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| This fairly brief experience of worldly ambition seems, however, to have disillusioned him. |
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| For most people, running a marathon would be the realisation of a lifetime ambition and the ultimate test of endurance. |
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| In 1877 artistic ambition led Munger to England to search for new styles and international artistic distinction. |
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| To learn their craft well is the key distinguishing ambition of this group. |
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| De Valera need never again appeal to America for assistance in his mad ambition to satisfy his consuming vanity. |
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| Obviously, I just have a very particular, specific point of view, but I don't feel that ambition and accessibility are mutually exclusive. |
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| Like so many couples, the two are at that moving-to-the-country age when comfort edges out ambition and eating well replaces eroticism. |
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| Another ambition was to categorise the meagre extant material held in archives. |
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| A combination of irrepressible talent and burning ambition saw him reach his goal in double quick time. |
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| It has been a lifelong ambition to work in catering, yet over the years I stayed within the care sector as it suited my lifestyle. |
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| What he has brought is a sense of urgency and ambition that has helped maintain a sharp focus. |
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| But despite a laudable sense of ambition, neither is it anywhere close to the high-water marks of Harvest or Rust Never Sleeps. |
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| As an added inducement, it was heavy-handedly hinted that co-operation by Bucharest would assist Romania's ambition to join the European Union. |
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| Only a wine of suavity, complexity and yet understated ambition could do him justice. |
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| It's hogwash to try and persuade the third world of football that ambition will see them through some day. |
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| But if she wasn't a go-getting 11-year old, she is making up for it at 29 with an overweening ambition to grow her company. |
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| It is the overweening ambition of the theory to explain or explain away rational thought, including philosophy. |
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| He does have one ambition yet unfulfilled, and that is to go around the world, including going across Canada by train. |
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| But you wouldn't bet against him turning up there in civvies in future, management being an ambition still left to fulfil. |
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| The various facets of his character occasionally complemented his ambition and ideals, but more often resulted in confusing contradiction. |
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| His corpulent figure and indolent manner belied ambition and a keen political intelligence. |
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| The farmers showed naked ambition when they opened up luxury holiday cottages for sun-seekers who like shedding their clothes. |
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| But with little ambition to go wide and a lack of composure when they tried to, they were containable. |
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| Because I believe that economic success inspires ambition and appetite in national leaders, not sanguinity or contentedness. |
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| For some time, his ambition was frustrated by those who said that he simply wasn't at that level. |
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| He has had to swallow the remains of what was once a great strategic ambition of his premiership. |
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| He has a gorgeous, yet high-maintenance, girlfriend, ambition, and loads of cash. |
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| The pair's ambition is to make their living producing scenery, costumes and props for museums, theatres, themed bars, film and television. |
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| And his ambition has been been aided by improvements in equine air travel, which has allowed horses to become globetrotters. |
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| In an attempt to win you over, the band stand up and make their ambition clear from the second the first note is struck. |
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| Where better to locate a grandiose businessman with small-town pretensions, brazen ambition and borderline criminality? |
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| This ambition was embodied in a number of institutions that were set up, or profoundly reformed, at the Liberation. |
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| His reputation as a meddler, unwilling to afford his managers free rein, is as damaging as what appears to be his unrealistic ambition. |
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| We know that he's been a do-nothing Senator eaten up with ambition for higher office since day one of his term. |
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| Among the rarest copper coins was one of Carausius, with two heads on it symbolling the ambition of our native usurper to assert empire. |
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| He has, in all probability, just one chance to achieve the single ambition that remains unfulfilled in his hard-working career. |
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| She says she always dreamed of becoming an actress but, to her chagrin, opportunity and ambition didn't seem to go hand in hand. |
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| Unashamedly promiscuous, Slater's ambition dictates that a quick bonk can often be indispensable to an upwardly mobile career. |
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| We don't hate Roxie for her ambition, merely pity her for the hard lessons that she is forced to learn. |
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| The black-turbaned man with outsized feet, hands, girth, and ambition is a Sayyid, a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed. |
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| Mountbatten gratified his ambition by staging an elaborate victory parade, at which he took the salute in Rangoon on 15 June. |
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| Her ambition is not only to have a shop front initially, but to design and supply for boutiques and department stores. |
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| But the grand ambition to shed festive season flab is likely to be quietly ditched by two-thirds of people before winter is out. |
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| For the sheer ambition and audacity of this venture, he deserves to be congratulated. |
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| He wanted especially to believe that he was in this case acting in a manner uncontaminated by public ambition or sexual possessiveness. |
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| They were an incredibly aggressive people, a people with seeming unbridled ambition to conquer everything. |
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| Paul's an independent filmmaker whose unbridled ambition is rivaled only by his equally unchecked obsessive nature. |
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| So Parliament offers no forum for considered debate and no brake on the unbridled ambition of an unscrupulous Prime Minister. |
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| A confident, competitive, compassionate Scotland was, and is, an ambition worth working for. |
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| The British chancellor seems to stand a good chance of fulfilling this ambition. |
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| McClernand's unbridled ambition is no different from that displayed by some senior officers today. |
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| My unashamed ambition is to work with others to make Glasgow one of the great cities of Europe. |
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| Finding unrealizable the ambition to know everything, he had concluded that human beings could know nothing. |
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| His ambition was to establish a museum of antiquities in Cairo, and in 1858 Said Pasha the viceroy of the Ottoman emperor agreed to the plans. |
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| In this story, as in many others in the collection, ambition is made more unappealing than the quiet expectation of failure. |
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| These are men and women who work not off of political ideals or even insight, but rather are driven by careerist ambition and opportunist fear. |
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| Their ambition to succeed seems to be matched only by their hard-headed realism about selling and how to do it. |
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| Ella's ambition is to become a financial controller within the next five to ten years. |
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| This being Glover's strength, I was a little disappointed that the hang of the exhibition didn't have the ambition to focus this strength. |
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| I am all for ambition but Lowe comes bearing more messages than a Yuletide postman. |
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| Chagrin seems to me to have nothing to do with raging ambition, though the connection may be clear if you read the sentence in context. |
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| For a man whose ambition had always been to farm, he has no regrets about his change of career. |
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| Thus, while the almshouse served the poor, it also served as a powerful vehicle of town life and political ambition. |
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| Orange County is beachfront suburbia, where the sun burns ambition to a crisp. |
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| Its ambition was to create big films that could make an impact on the US market. |
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| My ambition now is to live as long and as happily as I can, and to be good to my family and friends. |
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| I was never particularly good at anything but I had a lot of drive and ambition. |
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| An ancient tale tells of four mendicants who had chosen to abandon wealth, possessions and ambition in hope of benefiting the world. |
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| His ambition for approbation sets bounds and limits to his ambition, so to speak. |
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| His restless ambition has never quite been containable within one government department, even the Treasury. |
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| Paul, 20 months younger than John, was treated like the cute kid brother for whom ambition would be unseemly. |
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| We should all bear this in mind, for territorial ambition often goes hand in hand with the censor's creed. |
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| The trademark roller-coaster narrative has been replaced by something more subtler, more powerful, but lacking none of the ambition or scope. |
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| We were setting out into terra incognita, marked only by blank spaces on the maps, drawn by the magnet of our ambition as explorers. |
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| Our ultimate ambition is to have our own Rugby Development Officer working hand in glove with the schools. |
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| One of these was that religious dissension or aristocratic ambition could plunge a modern state into civil war. |
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| Interestingly, Shiv says his ambition is to do social work and help people. |
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| It is neither political ambition nor the desire to win awards that tempted him to take to active social work. |
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| Her ultimate ambition is to empower and enable people through educational achievement. |
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| Cancer's perception and intuition combined with Capricorn's pragmatism, organization and ambition will provide an excellent business sense. |
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| We both believe that this is a realisable ambition and should be the next logical step. |
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| Joly came of age in the liberating turmoil of the 1960s in France, but her story was one of ambition rather than anarchy. |
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| It's to be expected, of course, that in a film of this length and ambition there will be missteps and longueurs. |
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| Her ambition to have her star quality discovered is devastatingly dashed by a new arrival at the school who threatens to upstage her plans. |
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| Her ambition pays off when she returns to her home village triumphantly as a doctor. |
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| Now anyone with a coupla grand and enough ambition can produce useless plastic junk that will end up in a landfill. |
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| However, Brooks' point is that ambition crowds out other cultivated qualities, such as chivalry. |
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| He lost his ambition and forgot everything but his love for this unworthy woman. |
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| But there was more than thwarted ambition and ministerial rivalry at play here. |
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| A young entrepreneur named Hugh Hefner thrust his ambition upon the marketplace with a new magazine called Playboy. |
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| He passed the baton of his ambition on to me and urged me to become a writer, something he'd dreamed of doing all this life. |
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| The wet Liberals are a pathetic and spineless bunch who are wholly subservient to government discipline and their own ambition in equal measure. |
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| I have nurtured this ambition since I was a schoolgirl, but it was 17 years before I got around to achieving it. |
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| My mother had nurtured a hidden ambition to visit the Holy shrines of Badrinath and Kedarnath. |
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| So long as no English king conceived the unrealistic ambition of conquering Scotland, there was no reason for that to change. |
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| This was a setback because he had conceived an ambition to study physics with Boltzmann in Vienna. |
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| The ambition was laudable but the execution was marred by a series of ill-timed and increasingly expensive acquisitions. |
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| Her current heartthrob is superstar Shah Rukh Khan and she nurtures an ambition to meet up with King Khan. |
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| This is a pity, because, for all its conceptual ambition, it has the great virtue of being simply and accessibly written. |
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| His ambition is to follow in Slim's footsteps singing and playing traditional Australian bush ballads. |
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| A good foundation for a successful career in any area of hairdressing is based on hard work, good training, salon experience, and ambition. |
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| I was born into a family profuse in its ambition but lacking in its activism. |
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| Control of the arts by government is a Soviet ambition and, as such, should strenuously be resisted in a free society. |
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| His ambition to succeed, however, occasionally caused discontent with his back-room staff. |
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| Certainly it is the ambition of most philosophical systems to resolve the blooming confusion of the world into consonance. |
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| My personal ambition is to make enough money from all of these ventures to exit within a foreseeable timescale and become a business angel. |
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| A city without the ambition to reshape the skyline through breathtaking architecture will never be more than an overgrown town. |
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| A society that has lost faith in ambition and imagination will be bad for science. |
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| It has played a very strong part in my being born again with its easily relatable themes of ambition versus obligation. |
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| The Minister of Finance has to make his alley good if he wants to achieve his ambition. |
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| The chapters are surprisingly short and snappy, without the ambition or all-encompassing portraits we've come to expect. |
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| They have a rich seam of talented players and have the ambition to succeed as a whole. |
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| It is vital to this country that the Festival regain its world class status and ambition. |
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| The Left in Britain then believed deeply that personal ambition was a petit bourgeois vice to be despised. |
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| Assuming she stays free of injury, the long jump is likely to be the main threat to her quintuple ambition. |
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| The impiousness of the fishwife's final ambition links her with Marlowe's Faustus as well as with Lady Macbeth. |
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| I firmly believe that sloth and indolence are much kinder to the environment than greed and ambition. |
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| By his early teens, that ambition had already congealed into something darker. |
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| I had no ambition of asking for a luxurious house by a placid lake from my husband because I was used to hearing airplanes every day. |
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| His face alone is a portrait of sickly, soured ambition, with sunken, shadowed features and huge, tormented eyes. |
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| Had he been burning with political ambition, he could have easily landed a high-level spot in his father's administration. |
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| Arnold ploughed his violent ambition into his own body by working out constantly. |
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| Some observers think that Dukes has not been entirely purged of ambition to regain the leadership of the party he lost over 10 years ago. |
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| They are perhaps victims of their own ambition, which is more a reflection on the set-up of Scottish football than the Lanarkshire club itself. |
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| Among American painters, few achieved more fully the impressionist symbiosis of public ambition and private life than Edmund C. Tarbell. |
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| Her energy, ambition and drive see her always looking towards the horizon to see what's coming next. |
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| Given her drive, ambition and raw talent, this is a realistic goal, so Jennie is one to watch in the future. |
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| The ambition and drive to win that marks out the best from the rest seems to be inherent and not something that can be taught. |
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| But her casual appearance belies a steely core of ambition and determination. |
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| Yet all the words of warning and cautionary tales cannot dent his ambition to do something out of the ordinary. |
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| Wood's restless energy and monumental ambition made him an innovator who adapted the progressive spirit of the age to military affairs. |
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| The MBA is the acme of middle class parental ambition and student dreams, but as a post-graduate qualification it is a peculiar case. |
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| The development of Chelmsford's commercial and retail areas has rekindled the county town's ambition to become a city. |
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| To many, his ambition was greater than many in the party were prepared to support. |
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| The availability of sit-down money undermined any ambition to make these leases profitable. |
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| Kirsty, whose ambition is to become a teacher, said that she thought being diagnosed with ME would put her education on hold. |
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| Fyffes has been nursing an ambition to propel itself into a new phase of development, moving from being the dominant European player to one of the largest in the world. |
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| Any parliament is always going to be a seething cauldron of ambition. |
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| Naked ambition, of course, has spawned many other candidacies. |
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| This foolish and ill-judged ambition would eventually kill him. |
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| Here, love and ambition may be said to coincide in the most literal way. |
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| By accepting the gauntlet, he has already indicated drive, determination, ambition and confidence and must clearly fancy his chances of being a success. |
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| Nevertheless, his ambition and success could tempt as a how-to. |
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| O'Connor, for my taste, is the great artist of the group, with a purity and intensity of ambition that is utterly idiosyncratic and unaccountable. |
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| So where does this tale of abnormal, sane, hyperactive ambition begin? |
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| Her only ambition that remains unfulfilled is to go to university. |
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| Now that Annabel Goldie has handbagged the awkward squad in her party, Atticus wonders if the new Conservative leader's longer-term ambition lies elsewhere. |
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| I have always found it hilarious when people drop names inaccurately, an ever present peril for those in whom ambition exceeds capacity for detail. |
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| In this statement you see the ambition which now permeates the club. |
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| They said that lower taxes would leave more money in the hands of those who made their income with initiative, skills, entrepreneurial ambition and hard work. |
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| I was not burning with ambition to be elevated benchwards, merely putting myself in the way of the judicial press gang, should it wish to pick me up. |
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| Since the original ambition of the Pankhursts was only to gain the vote for propertied women and those who were unmarried, perhaps their fears were justified. |
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| My ambition from the time I can remember was to emulate what he did. |
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| Her ambition was painted as ruthless and her lack of money only further served to indict her as a greedy criminal. |
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| Such a view also has the unappealing consequence that a life devoid of ambition is more likely to be meaningful than one full of ambition, and this seems counter-intuitive. |
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| The magnificent ambition is fundamentally reliant upon the indelible impossibility of its fulfillment. |
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| I hoped that lofty ambition alone might sneak me through to the finals. |
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| He fulfilled a long-held ambition to take the company upmarket. |
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| The contents are similarly sweet, gloriously adventuresome pop crafted with astonishing ambition and proficiency, even while being loopily sloppy and self-referential. |
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| It was an innings of great ambition as the captain preyed mercilessly on loose bowling and also showed his batting qualities with fluent stroke play all through. |
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| This year he fulfilled a long-held ambition to work with Allen, playing an undisclosed role in a top-secret project about the art world, filmed in London. |
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| But the ambition announced in these pages is not limited to questions of linguistics or anthropology. |
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| Where did the ambition and intellectual brilliance come from? |
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| He was equally candid about dabbling in hard drugs, but said that his vanity and ambition prevented him from developing a full-blown heroin addiction. |
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| Their authors promise that your spirit will be improved, your ambition honed, and your finances maximized by their advice. |
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| And it led him in his teenage years to declare his ambition to become a cop. |
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| Reid planted a flag, ready to make his mark in the world of whisky, backed by ambition and a gorgeous piece of land. |
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| He made little secret of his ambition to become the next prime minister, much to the chagrin of Netanyahu. |
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| She alludes a lot to ambition and wanting fame, the kind of hard-nailed, blinkered ambition that drives actors and actresses. |
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| There was a cruel scar on her emotionless face, a tantalizing jumpsuit with armor covering the vitals, and a sense of power and ambition radiating from her. |
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| That said, my ambition was and still is to bring nuclear weapons out of the realm of abstraction and present them as a concrete subject rather than a theoretical policy issue. |
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| However, that ambition drove him to take on challenges others avoided. |
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| Muldoon's ambition was always palpable, but Johansson quarrels with the common view that he simply used power in the service of his own ambitions. |
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| Tykwer has a boundless ambition when it comes to complicated crane shots. |
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| Thus all the world's ambition gets funnelled through schools, turning academia into fractious circuses of human conflict and desperately competing agendas. |
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| Coming from a family of middling rank, he received little formal education, but soon developed a penchant for self-improvement and an ambition to better himself. |
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| This is to extend the ambition of rationalism to practical reason. |
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| His real ambition was to write, but a chap's got to eat, and teaching seemed like a not entirely uncivilised way of keeping the wolf from the door. |
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| The Coens unashamedly celebrate and aggrandize American culture and sense of place, using it to enhance stories that convey and explore love, betrayal and ambition. |
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| With three years left to his presidency, we are reduced to the lowly ambition of executive orders. |
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| It is just that their school places an emphasis on what it holds to be important subjects, hires good teachers and instils the necessary ambition in pupils. |
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| But will it keep women of talent and substance and mettle and ambition from gunning it forward? |
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| In these circles, the endless luncheons and dinners of rich foods and rare wines were battlegrounds of ambition, where gossip was often the weapon of choice. |
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| I think The Ghost Writer, with its combination of concision and daring and wild ambition, might be a perfect novel. |
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| The truth is that communism cannot exist without force because it depends so heavily upon squelching individual human ambition and making it subservient to the community. |
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| The present trustees could never be accused of lacking ambition. |
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| Goneril and Regan, consumed by ambition, divide the kingdom in half. |
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| In a book of such ambition, there will be much with which to quibble. |
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| Yet, sadly, neither talent nor ambition cultivates prudence, wisdom, love, or magnanimity. |
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| As is often the wont of those who have succeeded through factional alliances, when ambition calls, the instinct is to disown your own and condemn others. |
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| The demotic self-deprecation barely masks a vast ambition, which is a kind of deception in itself, or an artifice. |
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| The council claimed its ambition to support the results of the scheme financially could not be achieved unless more than 120 employees were made redundant. |
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| Taken overall, his nine features display a degree of visual refinement and intellectual ambition unusual in a director attached to the mainstream British film industry. |
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| It is also our ambition to hold a talent show at the end of the year. |
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| In the sixteenth century, the French connection was receding into England's past, but not in the imagination and ambition of Henry VIII, who tried to be Henry V reincarnate. |
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| Sure, all of these folks share healthy egos and a scorching ambition, but come on, we are talking about American politics here. |
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| This long satiric parable of a society where human beings find themselves transformed into monkeys recalls Swift in its ambition and scatological vigour. |
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| She is spontaneous with a great sense of humour, humble yet at the same time driven by a healthy ambition. |
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| The splintering of the old cartels has also made it possible for anyone with enough ambition to get to the top. |
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| Google, for one, has gotten plenty of press about its four-year-old ambition to become a carbon-neutral company. |
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| The new breed is full of confidence, driven by restless ambition. |
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| She sustains a neat balance between ambition and compassion, femininity and ballsiness which allows at least a glimpse into the war correspondent's dilemma. |
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| For Madison Holleran, Kathy Ormsby, and Mary Wazeter, it was an easy commute from ambition to unattainable expectation. |
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| One step too far, and ambition turns into unrealistic expectations, compulsion into craziness. |
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| She seemed to be relearning that now and her most pressing ambition at this moment was to get the kids to school. |
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| Christina has used her self-assurance and ambition to rise to the top. |
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| His colours and figures were too decorative and ingratiating to satisfy the period's tough talk about heroic self-consciousness and mythic ambition. |
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| He had a burning ambition to be a rat-catcher at an early age. |
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| The breakup ruined my concentration, my focus, my ambition at the company. |
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| Confidence and ambition regarding the international competitiveness of these industries made trade barriers and protection appear unnecessary and obstructive. |
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| It is an enduring political irony that, despite being a nation of strivers, Americans find naked ambition distasteful. |
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| Positive energy, ambition and a can-do attitude is visible on many faces. |
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| But Clarke has so far been seemingly ultra-honest by admitting he still nurses an ambition to be both the leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister. |
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| I was growing up to learn that sitting stretched out on a bed with somebody else's mending was really for people who have no ambition and no plans. |
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| The naked ambition and power grabbing becomes breath-taking. |
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| What I find contemptuous is the naked ambition of most of the contestants. |
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| He reasoned, correctly, that to achieve his ambition of becoming an Olympian he would have to find an obscure sport in which there was a dearth of competitors. |
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| It attacked my self-image, then spread, disease-like, to my sense of morality, ambition, and trust. |
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| In the end, his egotistical personality and his unabashed ambition to join the highest ranks did him in. |
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| Public readings were an esteemed but ancillary activity, something an established poet might do spurred by vanity, ambition, or a shortage of funds. |
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| Four decades later, that ambition has been realised, and then some. |
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| He tolerates her because it is his ambition to beat her at pool. |
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| Now she fears her permanently-limited mobility has blocked that ambition. |
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| Alas, not many of them are left, not those with the full-willed ambition to be crazy and to create inspired antic diversions to the newsroom norm. |
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| The main ambition of the club is to take people from all walks of life and teach them public leadership, thus opening up a whole new avenue for its members. |
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| Once the Blackburn Rovers boss began talking in terms of helping Cole achieve his one unaccomplished ambition, there was no going back for the 30-year-old. |
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| The way we are taught Shakespeare is too often loaded towards the idea that his plays are about supposedly unchanging things, like love or ambition or treachery. |
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| While Caesar examines the effect of unbridled political ambition on political order, Merchant explores the effect of revelatory religion on the polity. |
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| We live and work in an era of youthful exuberance and unbridled ambition. |
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| He never had any ambition to make tons of money, he just wanted to produce great ads, and when people couldn't understand his vision he'd totally lose the plot. |
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| His unbounded ambition and ruthless cruelty carry all before him. |
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| I've now mastered most of what makes my job challenging, but I have no ambition to move onward and upward into anything more managerial or corporate. |
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| His reputation was untarnished and his ambition remains undiminished. |
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| It manages marvellous bursts of vision, like the masked ball in Budapest, and sequences where the computer-generated effects match the movie's ambition, like the coach chase. |
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| It was always her burning ambition to see her mother's name cleared. |
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| We all know who these people are, they walk among us every day and attempt to thwart carefully laid plans of anti-productivity with thoughts of ambition and determination. |
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| From attitude and ambition springs forth a fountain of possibility. |
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| I don't agree with their politics, and their naked ambition scares me. |
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| On the continent, Bonaparte's vaulting ambition imposed such a degree of overexertion that every success he gained served only to make his eventual collapse more certain. |
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| The report's recommendations were striking, however, not for their expansive ambition or their florid language but for the speed with which they became reality. |
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| Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice? |
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| True to his ambition of having as many home-bred players in his squad as is feasible, the manager was delighted at being able to give five young players their first run. |
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| A team still trying to rebuild the confidence that has been dented by a shoogly start to the season, Alloa's desires were fuelled as much by fear as ambition. |
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| His ultimate ambition is to set up a chandler's shop, selling supplies for boats including provisions and provide pump-out facilities for canal boat toilets. |
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| The loss of his dad made Jordan re-evaluate his life and he was inspired to live up to his father's ambition that his son become a baseballer. |
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| Spurred on by his father, his ambition was to become a professional footballer. |
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| Schuller launched his ministry in a drive-in theatre, but his architectural ambition matched that of a Renaissance Pope. |
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| Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. |
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