I'd like to find a way of fulfilling some of my language-learning ambitions in a way other than dilettantism. |
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It's hard to measure the scope of any president's ambitions by the number of laws or executive orders he signs. |
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Alone and friendless in the bowels of one of his many palatial hideouts he must still, surely, nurse his grandiose ambitions. |
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He has even higher ambitions for the role of fresh beer, thoughtfully served, in a welcoming brewpub. |
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One of my more hopeless but doggedly-pursued ambitions is to collect every one of those words. |
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Although his dad has big ambitions for him, financial constraints are a problem. |
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How might a small software company with big ambitions draw vast amounts of free advertising press coverage? |
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For once, they are the big spenders, with the big ambitions and better players. |
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Toyota isn't the only auto maker with ambitions to dominate the high-end car market on the mainland. |
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Despite lavishing millions of dollars on his campaigns and outspending his opponents, his political ambitions have met with little success. |
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The ambitions driving the AU concept far outstrip the material resources available to make the vision work. |
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Our daredevil ambitions are never so roused as when we're our own audience. |
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After all they are reflecting the ambitions of the more powerful sections of local society. |
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Wars in the name of political ambitions and crusades for fanatical religious faiths are all part of man's history to this day. |
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He is good-humoured and popular, and has ambitions to run the school tuckshop. |
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But at least until mid-century, Tudor ambitions remained focused on reviving traditional English claims to the crown of France. |
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A week ago he was seen huddled in deep conversation with the former prime minister, who has ambitions to challenge the current one. |
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Honestly, we made the target because we managed, for once, to keep our ambitions closer to something realistically accomplishable. |
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If she had done so, he would have had to elaborate his policy ambitions in detail. |
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Trying too hard to be symbolic and trendily allusive, it collapses under the weight of its ambitions. |
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The unfancied Lancashire side delivered a jolt to City's ambitions with a 3-1 win at Valley Parade. |
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But the political repression in his native Hungary quashed his writing ambitions. |
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He knows he is joining a big club with big ambitions and those ambitions match his own. |
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These sources provide us with the names and ranks of the fort's commandants and their military and personal ambitions. |
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Its ambitions are narrowed to those which can be achieved with the least controversy and offend the fewest powerful interests. |
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The concept of a restaurant which supports the homeless with flair and elan is an excellent one and I admire the company's ambitions. |
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We are all accountable, especially me, and no stone will be left unturned to make sure we act like a team with championship ambitions. |
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In the end, if some of Smith's ambitions elude him, it is perhaps because they are so grand. |
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I guess the best case scenario will be if some soberness gets back into design and real estate ambitions. |
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As a family friend with no further ambitions, he was able to offer disinterested advice to the inexperienced future president. |
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You clearly have higher ambitions, judging by your enlistment of DeVito Verdi as an ad agency. |
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What's more, Cardenas has more than once demonstrated a disquieting willingness to play the race card to further his ambitions. |
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Their ambitions worked out in a different way, became ensnarled in trans-Atlantic politics, and New France fell before superior English power. |
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Poor visibility didn't get in the way of an entertaining game between two teams with genuine title ambitions. |
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Many analysts, however, expect Wu to scrap his mega-hotel ambitions if such prohibitive restrictions are imposed. |
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Early critiques are mixed, but the scale of the game's ambitions has raised the stakes of what players will come to expect. |
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In the end, I picked as my bachelorette a capricious little blonde with ambitions to be a rock diva. |
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Namibia's barren and unwelcoming coastlines served as a natural deterrent to the ambitions of European explorers. |
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You move ahead in a single-pointed manner to achieve professional goals and ambitions. |
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A slow and steady approach allows you to fulfill ambitions and achieve professional goals. |
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How can society hope to accommodate to men and women alike pursuing their public ambitions while maintaining a stable domestic life? |
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The film follows Ramu, who enjoys teaching Indian dance in New Delhi but has far greater ambitions to become a superstar. |
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I was carrying my daughter in her backpack when we visited as she was only quite small and her language abilities didn't match her ambitions. |
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Rome finally seems to have abandoned its temporal ambitions for purely spiritual aims. |
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Neither he nor his fellows could nourish any of the ambitions of the physical, fashionable D' Annunzio and his followers. |
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Paul, a successful model with ambitions to run his own place, came up with the necessary. |
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Said to possess exceptional drive and extreme intelligence, Norton's ambitions were not satisfied and he set up a doctors' deputising service. |
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We must design a new philosophy of supranational cooperation that well exceeds the ambitions of post World War II Europe. |
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Clearly, this is an irksome fact to someone whose ambitions extend beyond maximising profit. |
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Employees with management ambitions have long seen night work as a professional dead end. |
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The painter cruelly depicts the ambitions of the middle class, now naked for all to see. |
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This, quite apart from political ambitions, will be necessary to prevent the EU's already sclerotic decision-making process simply seizing up. |
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He put the team ahead of personal goals and ambitions, taking upon himself to mentor and cheerlead for his understudy-turned-starter. |
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All of these brothers, all of these princes, it just sounds like it would be inevitably a nest of plots and counterplots, ambitions and current. |
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Against federalist ambitions, Weiler maintains that supranationality does not strive for unity. |
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He's also taken a swipe at some union leaders, who he claims call strikes simply to advance their political ambitions. |
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Believe it or not, this was a pejorative term, implying unrealistic ambitions. |
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Spain also had great imperial ambitions from the sixteenth century but a limited supply of suitable forest. |
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The US had once looked upon Japanese ambitions with a level of sympathy, even indulgence. |
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The softly-spoken Aberdonian looks to the central belt as his ambitions to bring in new business kick in. |
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Among its ambitions could be a campaign to establish a professional quarter in the city where similar firms would be encouraged to locate. |
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I have no quarrels with the broad thrust of the ambitions laid out in the smart, successful Scotland strategy. |
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Today I managed to fulfill one of my lifes ambitions, and almost by accident. |
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What folks with political ambitions can do is, to start, be open to the Kings and Gandhis and lesser visionaries. |
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It also helps if the filmmaker tempers those ambitions with a little humor, which always goes a long way in a short subject. |
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He had spent his life always being there for me, pushing me to new heights, nurturing great ambitions. |
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Instead of his artistic ambitions being welcomed, his plans and his vision were distrusted, or simply misunderstood. |
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They offered an outlet for the ambitions of land-hungry knights and noblemen. |
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The older man stored away in the trunk of his mind dates and memories from his own career, while his son nurtured the same ambitions he once had. |
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Perhaps if the girl gives herself airs of grandeur, we should encourage her in her ambitions to become the proper lady. |
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One had appetites and ambitions, talents and desires, capacities and potential, drive and vision, questions and curiosity. |
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The home side's ambitions were, however, soon dented by two quick scores by Keighley. |
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Knoc has ambitions to expand production from its current total of 19 projects in 14 countries. |
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Those without political ambitions would point to their record of public service and, if wealthy, to their public and private benefactions. |
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If you have ambitions of becoming a white maggot, or just want to know more about AFL laws, check out the rule book. |
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Parents discouraged their daughters from nurturing such ambitions, and employers considered young women to be temporary help at best. |
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The project successfully integrates ecological ambitions with the design of architectural and sculptural elements. |
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We have a Premier League set-up in terms of facilities and we have ambitions to match. |
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The ambitions for a World Cup final, though, are larger than the match itself is ever likely to be. |
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His account of Defoe's popular success is a clue to his own writerly ambitions. |
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His work was all-consuming, often at the expense of those he loved, and he pursued his ambitions ruthlessly and selfishly. |
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On his rise through the administrative hierarchy he had acquired the reputation of a slippery time-server with naked ambitions. |
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That they were visually impaired did not handicap their ambitions at least. |
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When these feelings are free from national arrogance and conceit and imperial ambitions, there is nothing wrong or objectionable about them. |
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He was a fierce, conflicted hater who never quite reconciled his earthly and spiritual ambitions. |
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Whether you live in a feudal system or a meritocracy, the only ambitions worth having are for your soul. |
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His persistence in pursuing his musical ambitions caused Zhang to lead an unstable life with only odd jobs coming his way. |
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Land-hungry settlers viewed the royal government as an obstacle to their ambitions. |
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Hughes won the affection of many viewers in the original programme when he set out his ambitions in life. |
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Cracks start appearing in Victor's near-perfect facade, cracks that are directly linked to his ambitions. |
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And men will secretly tell you that most of them are comfortable to have women whose ambitions do not venture beyond the steamy kitchen. |
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Italian ambitions in the Balkans angered the Serbs and the Allies and rendered a common front in the Balkans all but impossible. |
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Specialists had made significant progress in documenting Algeria's Roman heritage, a process intimately bound up with French imperial ambitions. |
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He and Graham Gordon, another young Scot soon to join the paid ranks, have big ambitions. |
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His appetites in the energy sector and his ambitions to restore his positions in the gas business might have lead to the event as of Friday. |
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In Cameron, he reckons, he has found someone with the right stuff to boost his European ambitions. |
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The new moderate policy reckoned without the ambitions of the poorest peasants and the zeal of local Party cadres. |
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She even has ambitions to return to college and major in interior design and business. |
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Noble ideas about feeding the world are being used to cloak ambitions of economic dominance. |
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There are many factors involved in the line-up of forces in the threatened split, including, no doubt, personal grudges and careerist ambitions. |
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Tucker accused George, who was running for public office, of allowing his political ambitions to influence his behavior. |
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It was primarily his French ambitions which made King Henry relatively unaggressive in Britain. |
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There is an unequivocal denial of the possibility or the desirability of universal values, ambitions or aspiration. |
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In Marlowe's rendition, he is portrayed as a tragic hero in that his unbridled ambitions lead him to an unfortunate end. |
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Tyler goes a long way toward describing why it is that children are freighted with all the dreams and ambitions of so many Americans. |
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But it was found the council was unclear about long-term ambitions and its role as a community leader. |
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The straight looks and answers she gives when asked about her ambitions leave no doubt that she thinks the sacrifice was worth it. |
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If we allow fear to rule our lives, to govern our travel plans, our ambitions and hopes, then they have won. |
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The Chinese navy is determined to fulfill its blue-water ambitions, even if it takes a generation or more. |
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And the assumption that he had packed away his nuclear kit and abandoned all ambitions still strikes me as deeply unconvincing. |
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I write these words before the president has spoken to his national convention, where his aides promise he will lay out his new ambitions. |
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Ask them about their ambitions and what you get is honest, straightforward answers. |
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Her ambitions are patterned on images absorbed from old movies and gleaned from her favourite reading matter, celebrity autobiographies. |
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Instead of returning to the Irish rock scene, he resolved to pursue his musical ambitions in a more low-key way. |
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Where once Nato was about European protection, is it not now becoming the cuckoo in the nest of European ambitions? |
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The ambitions, the hopes, the dreams, every twisted, bizarre, seemingly abnormal thought I ever had melts in the glare of commonness. |
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The determining factor here was the centralized authority of the Tanguts and Kitans, which restrained their own citizens and their ambitions. |
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The storytelling ambitions of the two paintings are entirely interchangeable. |
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Some content providers seem to have ambitions that are more appropriate for some Orwellian dystopia. |
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If anything, Allan and his management team have had to rein in their ambitions. |
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Australia wrecked New Zealand's World Cup ambitions on the same stage nine months ago in a 22-10 semi-final boilover. |
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When you were younger, did you have any ambitions to appear in movies, or did that just happen as an outgrowth of your comedy dream? |
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Golub was an odd man out, one of those who kept alive certain ambitions scuttled by the artists who followed Abstract Expressionism. |
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Two of my many still unfulfilled ambitions are to snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef and to swim with dolphins. |
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Not so long ago he was watching telly with his eldest daughter, Lois, who has ambitions to be an actor. |
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For many the New Year promises another opportunity to realise unfulfilled ambitions. |
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Andrews just hopes their ambitions tally with his own and those of his boss. |
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For Australian companies like us, the situation with the Australian dollar makes it difficult to achieve your strategic ambitions. |
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For all her military ambitions, Dana was well trained in the social graces, and could waltz as well as she could fight. |
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Uzbekistan's ambitions to be the regional hegemon in Central Asia are well known. |
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It all seemed a bit too easy and specific, not cool and abstract enough too conform to the universalist ambitions of modernism. |
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The firm harbours ambitions to build a major annual event around St Andrew's Day. |
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Smart cars and political ambitions would clearly have created a dangerously high profile! |
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The men horrified me, the way they seemed to be living unfulfilled ambitions through their sons. |
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He's a boy, a youngster, a son, a husband, a lover, a king and a victim of my ambitions. |
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My own dreams seemed trivial before this tapestry of family plans and lifelong ambitions and children's college funds. |
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In the eyes of the public, they only care for the votes and they have their own ambitions and prejudice. |
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She finished sixth in the individual event, but recognised it was inexperience which limited her ambitions in the final. |
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In order to obtain formal grace, prose writers had to lessen their ambitions. |
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I'm immensely proud of my achievements such as they are and thank the club for their support in realising my ambitions over the last 18 years. |
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Before feminism, stifling your personal ambitions in favor of doting on your husband was just a drawback to being a woman. |
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He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions. |
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It rests on aggressive xenophobia, chauvinism, fanatical imperial ambitions and fascist demagogy. |
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She also said that the ambitions of hundreds of school leavers had been thrown into disarray by the Government's decision not to proceed with the courses in September. |
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He followed a line of England managers who had had middling amounts of success but who had never realised the strong ambitions of a nation which yearns for success. |
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And notwithstanding the emerging tragedy in Syria, the graver regional threat remains Iran and its nuclear ambitions. |
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They have genuine promotion ambitions if they can keep the pot boiling. |
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I lead a perfectly normal life, have dreams and ambitions just like the good children out there, and even realize some of those dreams every once in a while. |
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He grew up under the old Communist system, in a blighted Czechoslovakia whose ambitions for independence had been crushed beneath Soviet tank tracks. |
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He remained an assertive influence at William III's court, however, quarrelling and plotting against those whom he believed were thwarting his own ambitions. |
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Today's commune members strive to reconcile communal responsibility with individual ambitions and aspirations. |
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And this downshift in career ambitions is just as true for the top dogs among us. |
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All of this occurs amid speculation about her own presidential ambitions. |
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Constable died in 1837 feeling that his ambitions had not been realized. |
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The avuncular Sam, understanding how much they like each other as well as the ambitions that are driving them both, urges them to be civilized and be nice to each other. |
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Yet the moment we become mothers we are supposed to switch off our ambitions, tighten our belts and shuffle off into the sunset with a baby buggy and dark roots. |
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Younger brother Prince Khurram promptly had him killed, as fraternal ambitions were not to be encouraged, even though the wretched Prince Khusrau was blind. |
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Gulnara felt compelled to reaffirm her disinterest in political ambitions, via tweet, several weeks ago. |
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It will be the last time that these group of athletes take the field together before they are scattered to the winds of their individual sporting ambitions. |
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Taiwan could regain some momentum in the Taipei-Tokyo-Beijing triangular relationship by forming a partnership with Japan to contain China's ambitions in the region. |
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As number two in an unpopular centre-right government, he has to save the jobs of Alstom's remaining 75,000 employees or his presidential ambitions will be a busted flush. |
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We need to carefully consider the connections between urban ambitions and river ecology, and the politics of remaking Delhi's land and waterscapes. |
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Having come this far, the city government now nurtures more ambitions. |
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Soldiers' allegiances were stronger towards their generals than the discredited deputies and army leaders began to nurture political ambitions of their own. |
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But did he nurture ambitions to return to Queen Margaret Drive? |
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Former Manchester United star Henning Berg hopes to bid a fond farewell to Old Trafford tomorrow by blowing a hole in his old club's title ambitions. |
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With self-assurance and near total faith in their own strengths and intuition, these people will strive hard to fulfill their dreams and ambitions. |
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In evaluating anyone's ability, I look at what kind of person they are first, try to find out what makes them tick, their ambitions, what switches them on. |
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Nicki treats the obsession with her pop ambitions as an irrelevant, surface-level irritation. |
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He had ambitions and ideas that exceeded the superficiality of his industry. |
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As Leeds United battle to stay in existence, Birmingham City directors continue to mould the midlands outfit into a club with ambitions to join the Premiership elite. |
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The minimalist goal is to compel Iran to surrender its nuclear ambitions and submit fully to international monitoring. |
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And even the old-line, skeptical faculty can accommodate such ambitions, tempted by the promise of added status and goaded by self-doubt about the value of their own careers. |
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The talks follow six months of shuttle diplomacy after a first round in Beijing last August failed to narrow the gulf over Pyongyang's atomic arms ambitions. |
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No doubt he hopes to fire up the collecting ambitions of his sometimes troubled museum, which must compete for blue-chip art with many other powerful institutions. |
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Linux didn't come from a silo, and it had no ambitions to be a silo. |
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We especially fear being constrained by our bodies, because every fleshly constraint is a premonition of death, the final limit our physicality places on our ambitions. |
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But if he has any regrets, he adds, it relates to unfulfilled ambitions. |
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The wolves gather again the following day, a few suspecting the hero is purblind to all but his own ambitions, caught up as he is in the hysteria of his last days. |
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In their relationships with women, Russell and Ayer both seemed quite oblivious to the feelings of others when such feelings were likely to thwart their plans or ambitions. |
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He could flop, of course, or fail to deliver on his expansive ambitions. |
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His methods aren't subtle but when you have megalomaniacal ambitions it's easy not to be shy about getting your hands dirty while disposing of assorted Latino gangsters. |
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This is the moment and the method to decide whether it will continue to corrode our relations and undermine our ambitions for the indefinite future, or not. |
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William's own ambitions centred on preserving his wife's and his own right of succession to the throne, and in securing England's participation in the continental war. |
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Theories of the new terrorism were that it would be something that would be in the service of universal and global ambitions, many of which would be religious or millenarian. |
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Twenty-three years ago, when Hart's presidential ambitions were torpedoed by the Donna Rice affair, his wife stayed with him. |
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Antony emerged triumphant and the dominant partner of the triumvirate, while Octavian's seeming cowardice caused a severe if temporary setback to his ambitions. |
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The children of illegitimates, indeed the grandchildren of illegitimates, could also have their ambitions frustrated by the actions of their ancestors. |
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The Meiji Restoration saw the beginning of its imperialistic ambitions as the country waged several wars, including the 1894-1895 Sino-Japanese War. |
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They were well known for their political passiveness, a position supported by a deep-seated belief in impotency of ordinary folk in the face of political ambitions. |
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Yet instead of scaling back their political ambitions in the face of an obdurate reality, they are escalating them. |
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One of his unfulfilled ambitions is to write a scientific book on a particular forest and its inhabitants as well as write a book on wildlife photography. |
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The picture speaks of the artistic ambitions of the photojournalist. |
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Such conditioning dulls ambitions and makes managers defensive. |
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This is a serious comic novel, a withering satire on dumbed-down culture, a gently ironic look at devotions and ambitions, and a redemptive parable about coping with grief. |
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He was a strict and severe man but with no political ambitions. |
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For a tearjerker with modest ambitions, this film is excruciatingly inept. |
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A modern conservatism will, in other words, have big ambitions to rebalance society and the economy. |
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Although advanced as a first, tentative approach, the proposal is presented very systematically, with clear ambitions to generality and exhaustiveness of the field. |
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One of her ambitions as a young artist was to create on canvas the sweeping expressiveness of music, its ability to shift agilely from joyous to sorrowful to triumphant. |
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She had suddenly remembered that she must play up to this man who held her ambitions in his hand, and she had the wit to acknowledge his prospicience. |
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Asked if the government had scaled back its ambitions on housing affordability, Morrison said he did not resile from the expectation the budget would help renters and those saving to buy a house. |
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Okay, that's small change compared with the billions involved in electronics exports, and a theme park doesn't exactly mesh with ambitions of a high-tech future. |
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How curious then that it is his character which evolves more unreadably than Yan's and it is Ming whose ambitions are to make such a quantum leap. |
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Jude, who had been planning to enter the priesthood as a licentiate, as a substitute for his thwarted intellectual ambitions, is now doubly defeated. |
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Alumni, researchers, graduates, postgraduates and campus companies were all amongst those with entrepreneurial spirit and ambitions to establish their own companies. |
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The forward-thinking family policy has to be gender-blind, assuming both sides of a couple will choose to maximize their earning power and ambitions. |
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The women are Charlotte, who will become a front-line nurse, and Greta, who will pursue her ambitions as a singer. |
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And for some regional variety, in Iran with its nuclear ambitions, every day is Passover. |
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But while the Latin American writer has used magic realism to give epic form to the unwritten history of his nation, his ambitions are more personal and private. |
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Everything depends on an arranger's ambitions with happy Christmas tunes. |
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One of the many ambitions of the Athenians was to reduce all Italy, but the disaster at Syracuse prevented their trying conclusions with the Romans. |
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However, as one would expect from a team with ambitions of promotion, Athy were on top in all aspects of play and dominated Stillorgan throughout. |
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I went to a school that catered for artistic and creative ambitions. |
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All our hopes and ambitions, our life's work, were in ruins. |
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It is about the sordid deeds people's abject ambitions ultimately lead to. |
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She tends to live in the present, without any plans, ambitions or goals. |
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The emphasis on the quick opinion undercuts ambitions of artistry, and great individual columns can be lost in the wall of sound. |
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The article also suggested that aid to those areas is assisting ISIS in its state-building ambitions. |
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To some extent migrant labour is performing the role once played by military service when ex-army conscripts returned to the villages with new skills and ambitions. |
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So with the doors of late night closed to her, Slate had to scale down her ambitions to raise her profile. |
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Why would a system, on so many levels, manufacture hopes and ambitions designed for disappointment? |
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And elites with ambitions in national politics are learning to electioneer accordingly. |
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Zylka was never had ambitions of acting growing up, preferring instead to play football and tag graffiti. |
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His debut novel, Echo of the Boom, is a dystopian romp with Pynchonesque ambitions. |
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But the Russians are blinded by their insane superpower ambitions and their take from their heavily mythologized WWII history. |
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He branded it a fifth-column invasion into popular culture, normalizing radical, even communist ambitions. |
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Have they made a strategic decision to abandon their nuclear ambitions? |
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Only time will tell whether or not they will achieve their ambitions. |
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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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When foreign businesses come in they often destroy local competitors, quashing the ambitions of the small businessmen who had hoped to develop homegrown industry. |
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He rejected the proposal on the ground that such an important decision should not be governed by personal ambitions but by economic factors, informed sources say. |
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He intimately understands the idea of deterrence insofar that once he has a nuke, he will be able to deter other powers from countering his ambitions in the region. |
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Lincoln's ambitions as a lawyer and increasingly as a politician took him to the dusty courthouses and county capitals throughout the Eighth Judicial Circuit. |
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He has no immediate ambitions beyond smoking his beloved draw. |
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You'll need to resolve the conflict between your parents' plans for you and your own ambitions. |
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Charles was hungry for success at the highest level, and manager Raich Carter was unable to convince him that Leeds could satisfy his ambitions. |
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It is to the ambitions of Prince Henry the Navigator that historians attribute the discovery of the Cape as a settling ground for Europeans. |
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A second Battle of Diu in 1538 finally ended Ottoman ambitions in India and confirmed Portuguese hegemony in the Indian Ocean. |
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Another siege failed in 1547 putting an end to the Ottoman ambitions, confirming the Portuguese hegemony. |
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This setback, however, did not deter Balboa's ambitions of returning to explore the South Sea. |
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His mother had huge ambitions, and encouraged him to believe it was his destiny to conquer the Persian Empire. |
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Despite their artistic ambitions, they were never able to escape the label of a pop group. |
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Smith was close to his mother, who probably encouraged him to pursue his scholarly ambitions. |
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Ghanaian Prime Minister and President Kwame Nkrumah aimed at rapidly expanding the GAF to support the United States of Africa ambitions. |
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Nonetheless, it was clear that Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco would have to shelve any public office or political ambitions during il Magnifico's rule. |
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The disastrous 1890 British Ultimatum led to the contraction of Portuguese ambitions in Africa. |
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This sharply checked Portuguese colonial ambitions in the late 18th century. |
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Britain's interest in Bahrain's development was motivated by concerns over Saudi and Iranian ambitions in the region. |
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Moctezuma gave lavish gifts of gold to the Spaniards which, rather than placating them, excited their ambitions for plunder. |
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Both the BBC and Beecham had ambitions to bring London's orchestral standards up to those of Berlin. |
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He ended French Valois ambitions in Italy and brought about the Habsburg ascendency in Europe. |
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Britain's imperialist ambitions can be seen as early as the sixteenth century. |
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Due to the vast imperialist ambitions of European countries, Britain had several clashes with France. |
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Rembrandt began as a history painter before finding financial success as a portraitist, and he never relinguished his ambitions in this area. |
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The existence of these treaties tended to discredit Allied claims that Germany was the sole power with aggressive ambitions. |
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He thought he'd be albe to combine a career in the civil service with his sporting ambitions. |
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Everyone had expected the economic recession to put a crimp in Davis's ambitions. |
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It would engage in attacking the British, Portuguese, Dutch, and Siddi Naval ships and kept a check on their naval ambitions. |
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Two sayings from Seneca speak of the laughableness of man's ambitions on an earth scarred by the wars of so many nations. |
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Ousted from his ancestral domains in Central Asia, Babur turned to India to satisfy his ambitions. |
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The native dress clung to her limbs in sculpturable lines, and her consecrated ambitions seemed more insistent than ever. |
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Having worked with Mike in previous roles, Neil Poxon asked him to join PWA and lead its European business ambitions. |
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The putsch regime in Kiev is using the military to pursue the oligarchs financial ambitions of global hegemony. |
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The book draws parallels between the post-World War I imperialist ambitions of Russia and the modern hegemonism of the Kremlin. |
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Like the Rotterdam multiplex, it also has urbanistic ambitions to energize and densify the city centre by creating new public spaces. |
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Born Running treads a far rockier path, its fuzz box Jeff Beck guitar solo hinting at rock god ambitions on the part of the guitarist. |
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As a professional tabla player my ambitions have, to a large extent, fructified. |
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Archeological remains on North America even exist which give evidence to the dynamism and territorial ambitions of these Germanic warriors. |
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Alfred's educational ambitions seem to have extended beyond the establishment of a court school. |
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He had no social ambitions, and it was rare for him to set out to make a friend. |
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The British frequently financed the European coalitions intended to thwart French ambitions. |
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Many historians have concluded that he had grandiose foreign policy ambitions. |
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The Battle of the Nile was a major blow to Napoleon's ambitions in the east. |
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Napoleon's ambitions in Louisiana involved the creation of a new empire centered on the Caribbean sugar trade. |
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The release of her debut solo album, Butterfly Effect, on September 1 will see her return to her music ambitions. |
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Macdonald believed that a viable continental federation would provide a countervailing force to the annexationist ambitions of the United States. |
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Again, fears of John of Gaunt's ambitions influenced political decisions, and a regency led by the King's uncles was avoided. |
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The first prophecy is thus fulfilled, and Macbeth, previously skeptical, immediately begins to harbour ambitions of becoming king. |
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Most of this output was humorous, sometimes satirical, but his standards and ambitions were exacting. |
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The BSEE previously approved the company's oil response plans for its exploratory ambitions in both the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. |
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He had ambitions to be the first head of the National Theatre and had no intention of letting actors run it. |
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Frank had no theatrical ambitions and worked all his life as a stockbroker in the City of London. |
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Honda's automotive manufacturing ambitions can be traced back to 1963, with the Honda T360, a kei car truck built for the Japanese market. |
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After gathering in Venice, the Crusade was used by Doge Enrico Dandolo and Philip of Swabia to further their secular ambitions. |
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However, it was also possibly motivated by Hungarian territorial ambitions. |
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Initially confined to Europe, the fighting gradually assumed a global dimension as the political ambitions of the Revolution expanded. |
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Murray had for some time had ambitions to establish a new morning paper to compete with The Times. |
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The biography includes conjectures about the writer's earliest ambitions. |
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Whatever the case may be, Cadwallon was certainly affected by the ambitions of Edwin, King of Northumbria. |
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But the Maryland governor also has higher ambitions for the commemoration. |
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The territorial ambitions of the French, however, led to the War of the Spanish Succession and the Napoleonic Wars. |
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Despite its grand ambitions toward the south, it had not built its railway network in that direction, and communications were poor. |
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The Partido Nacional and Partido Colorado were born in 1836 amid the clash of war unleashed by the ambitions of their civilian caudillos. |
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When caught AWOL with a friend, his military ambitions are reduced to being a radio truck driver. |
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The royal family is politically divided by factions based on clan loyalties, personal ambitions and ideological differences. |
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A disciplined brain will at once show the unnecessariness of most ambitions, and will ensure that the remainder shall be conducted with reason. |
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May God's curse rest upon the arrogant men and the unholy ambitions which let loose this horror upon humanity! |
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James's ambitions were greeted with very little enthusiasm, as one by one MPs rushed to defend the ancient name and realm of England. |
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However, Llywelyn's territorial ambitions gradually made him unpopular with some minor Welsh leaders, particularly the princes of south Wales. |
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