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Is he ambitious and keen to succeed by seeing you enjoy commercial success?
He heard most of the great Edwardian King's Counsels arguing in court and was ambitious to be one of them.
Starbucks plan to roll out coffee kiosks at airports and supermarkets to meet this ambitious target.
On our topo maps we had etched an ambitious, 225-mile loop that took us far north of the ongoing drought in central and southern Mongolia.
An ambitious plan to convert two acres of unused allotments into recreational facilities was launched today.
In the millennium year the club set about an ambitious task of upgrading their facilities.
Where else would you have a government in which bright, ambitious ministers don't want the top job?
For it is clear that should these ambitious plans come to fruition, then what emerges will be nothing like a hospital as we know it.
Of course, you never know, there might be an ambitious young politician who wants to run this campaign.
It used to be the case that ambitious people went into politics in the hope that they would one day become famous.
Based on a real story from 1937, the drama is about an ambitious teacher who seeks to awaken his spiritual prowess through visiting a tohunga.
He was grinning with the expectant air of an ambitious toady as he balanced on his tiptoes.
I'm all for experiment and economy, but a less ambitious reading might be more coherent.
The pair sensibly attempted a less ambitious integration of moderate-size compositions in the more restricted space upstairs.
James, being ambitious to mend his pace, tugged hard at the rein, and one of his rider's boots escaped from the stirrup.
For young boys and their ambitious parents, all of this is the stuff of which dreams are made.
He now hopes to marry Bradamante, but her ambitious parents vigorously oppose the match.
New York, that great city of immigrants, is home to ambitious sons and daughters from all over the world.
I found them to be a very receptive group, very ambitious and very willing to learn.
However, Lochhead argued, it is crucial that the new institution tries not to be too ambitious.
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O'Connor is an ambitious and driven young man and he knew that this was his chance to make capital from his success.
But the band does sound ambitious and hungry to progress to bigger and better things.
Clever, ambitious and moderate as he is, I do not for a moment think he expects his party to win the election.
Boys are independent, self-sufficient, aggressive, dominant, ambitious, stoic, and above all, successful.
You combine dual aspects by being ambitious professionally and domesticated in the home and family situations.
South Cumbrian dairy farmers are young, thrusting and ambitious, according to a new survey that flies in the face of gloomy industry forecasts.
An ambitious vision of Barnsley transformed from a grimy former mining community into a thriving market town is to be unveiled tonight.
The aims of Quoting Caravaggio are ambitious and laudable, and Mieke Bal's formula for a contemporary baroque is intriguing.
This was one of the most ambitious threats from Norway and was aiming to establish maritime control over the western seaways.
His first solo directing commission came in 1935, when he was invited to direct a massively ambitious science fiction project.
The ambitious teenager masquerades as pilot, doctor and lawyer while mainlining in embezzlement.
And we all know that, as well as being a brilliant banker, Royal Bank boss Fred Goodwin is a very ambitious man.
Faulkner is a young, ambitious, ruthless woman who will stop at nothing in order to secure a lofty management job.
A leading company is to create 100 new jobs in Southend as part of an ambitious expansion to develop sales in the US market.
Milner potted green to level the frame scores but left a sitting brown after attempting an ambitious pot along the baulk cushion.
Doubters and critics have poured scorn on our ambitious plans or urged speed when a more thoughtful approach was deserved and required.
Jon Newby, now top scorer after his seventh goal of the season, would be a prime target for ambitious clubs.
The board terminated the president and has made sure that such an occurrence will not be repeated by any other ambitious faculty or president.
Such thinking in the scientific community prompted the ambitious plan to map the human genome.
He was certainly an ambitious young man who was always on the make, looking for the next angle.
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It has also significantly cut its own prices for broadband, and claims to be making in-roads towards meeting its ambitious targets for users.
I must have been feeling awfully ambitious to set myself such a daunting assignment!
Sidewalk, Goff's maiden Web effort, was the most ambitious launch to date in the history of the Internet.
It is time both parents and ambitious students thought of giving a snub to all those avaricious private medical and engineering colleges.
Previously an autocracy, it moved closer to becoming a true constitutional monarchy when the King announced ambitious political changes.
Globally, ambitious efforts to develop wind power are beginning to take shape.
I wish I had because I missed a preview of the company's ambitious machine translation efforts.
The evidence amounted to an ambitious but authoritatively informed review of the potential of and need for company law reform.
These are not auspicious conditions either for future sales or the supply of ambitious workers.
There are ambitious plans for the future and the entire park, when fully developed, will be a tourist attraction for locals and visitors alike.
His government has set ambitious targets for economic reform and attracting foreign investment.
So why does it matter if the attorney general is a highly ambitious character?
How organizations attend to a rich range of employees' emotions could facilitate or hinder the progress of ambitious change.
Sue designed the website herself and for a first attempt at web design it is an ambitious project!
But this book, McEwan's grandest and most ambitious yet, is much more than the story of a single act of atonement.
The country has fiercely denied US allegations that it is using an ambitious atomic energy project as a cover to develop nuclear weapons.
Her son is a ruthlessly ambitious journalist, who doesn't have time to notice her terminal cancer.
He has already started to plan fundraising events in the run-up to this year's ambitious challenge.
It is just that aspirations at the club have tended towards the more ambitious side.
It began as an ambitious scheme to establish a Scottish colony in Panama, but ended in loss of life and financial ruin.
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Most of the early settlers were young men who were adventurous, rugged, and ambitious.
Sailors from Argyll are involved in two projects ashore, the more ambitious one being the building of a health clinic.
About time, say those few transport commentators who aren't simply cynical about such ambitious long-termism.
It wouldn't be politically wise for the ambitious local marshal to be associated with a roughneck like Horn.
Environmental lobbyists argue the blueprint falls short of the ambitious plans envisioned by many.
More ambitious both literarily and graphically, it makes for the better read.
He believes the drive for approval motivates both spheres of life for ambitious men.
Even better, the producers became willing participants in Browne's most ambitious projects when the programme took to the road.
The ambitious plan aims to transform a historic but neglected section of the town's riverfront into a new cultural district.
Many companies in the US over-invested on the back of ambitious growth forecasts and find themselves heavily indebted as cash flows dry up.
His plan was an ambitious trek of the Appalachian ranges from Georgia to Maine during the summer vacation.
He has ambitious plans to make a full-length feature film, but again on his terms and in his own time.
Perhaps as a result of the success of the wild turkeys, Shenandoah embarked on a more ambitious project later that year.
Small papers across the country are teeming with ambitious young reporters hoping one day to make the leap to major dailies.
The association has been helping people living mainly in residential care for three years and has ambitious plans for expansion.
He does not press ambitious claims, and each of his opinions is firmly anchored in the law.
It was, after all, the most ambitious amphibious operation in the annals of military history until the Normandy invasion.
The department has an ambitious publishing program that regularly publishes books by our students and renowned photographers.
Her earliest exhibited pieces were thoughtful and ambitious, if youthfully tendentious.
Lobbyists grew adept at larding ambitious legislation with special-interest provisions.
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It was a bold and ambitious plan that took no account of the terrain or local conditions.
And work is now due to start on the ambitious project to meet the timescale for claiming the award.
To make the ambitious plans work, the house next door also had to be bought.
This ambitious scheme was designed to make the motorist's life a lot freer.
Parents are set to be given their say on ambitious plans which could see a York school sold to make way for a new one.
The most important step in reaching this ambitious goal is to stop pollution at its source.
The project proposes the most ambitious plans for the parish church in over 100 years.
Work on the ambitious project started this week, and will be completed later in the month.
This is an ambitious programme which will succeed if all of Erris supports the event.
Instead the company has come up with an ambitious scheme to boost the number of people working from home.
Lovell acknowledges that the rescue plan is ambitious and riddled with potential problems.
It is an ambitious work, with inevitable moments of awkwardness and pretension.
Town hall chiefs have agreed to submit the ambitious proposal to the Transport Department.
The Society has a full and ambitious programme laid out for the rest of the year.
It's an ambitious feat, but he's hoping it will help him get over his recent divorce.
Youngsters in the town were on hand on Saturday as work began on another ambitious project in the town.
Edinburgh's political and business leadership have set themselves an ambitious goal.
I hope my vision is clear enough for this job and ambitious enough for this country.
Turnover has doubled in the past two years as the company embarked on an ambitious expansion programme.
People in Cottingley had arranged fundraising ventures for the ambitious project.
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They were determined and ambitious in their playing, but their performances were a mixed bag.
Some of the more ambitious regional economic groupings are striving to become a common market.
Your ambitious nature will be rewarded as you are promoted to a prominent position in your profession.
This week the city prepares to launch its most ambitious programme to date.
Within the space of a few pages, the comedian morphs from an ambitious, uncaring party animal into a remorseful, spiritual outcast.
In the event that too ambitious trimming results in bleeding, styptic powder should be applied to the wounded nail.
By contrast, the syndicates of private investors have become more ambitious.
As their budgets have increased, their music has become correspondingly more ambitious, embracing big ensembles along with bedroom turntablists.
Its predominance in west and central Africa is coming to an end as South Africa becomes more ambitious.
As the group's fantasies become more ambitious, events take a sinister turn.
With the French president's ambitious plans for a cohesive, more centralised European Union in shreds, Ireland can take a bow.
The logo is the mark of a bank thinking big and growing into an ambitious and resplendent entity.
We are ambitious and we want the best for the population of Breaffy and Ballyheane.
That is why younger, leaner, more ambitious colleges are now the real powerhouses of learning.
As Cesarani demonstrates, Eichmann was an ambitious man determined to do his job well.
Some of these measures would have been rashly ambitious at the best of times.
The most ambitious experiment used a large bomber with fighters carried above and below each wing and one under the fuselage on a trapeze.
His most ambitious music was abominated by conservative critics and also baffled concert audiences.
First he let fly from 25 metres out, his ambitious drive banging off the outside of the upright.
For the most part they were young, extremely talented and well educated, their heads full of newly minted, ambitious visions.
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This paper presents the first fruits of a very ambitious project to map gene expression onto the anatomy of the mouse brain.
For the second half of the quarter, I had ambitious plans for the students.
Educated and ambitious, they are lured here by the promise of material acquisition.
If the jobs go overseas or pay at overseas wages, ambitious people will move to other fields.
Any ambitious, knowledgeable, diplomatic, well-connected woman could presumably do it.
The more ambitious and well favoured tend to become obtrusive, and, eventually, inevitably, an embarrassment to their masters.
The status of the disabled, in his view, is either ambiguous or closer to that of the shiftless and incompetent than to that of the ambitious.
He quite clearly loves Europe, respecting its diversity but admiring its ambitious attempt to unify.
They are honest, enthusiastic and ambitious for the club and they made it clear they wanted me to stay.
At the top level, thousands of pounds are shelled out by ambitious team owners to ensure the right outcome of a match.
He's very ambitious and some people think he's arrogant, but he will always be there when the whips are cracking.
But as MD of one of the country's major construction companies, MacDonald has to be a good bet to achieve success with these ambitious plans.
His sophomore effort is ambitious and diverse, suggesting Skinner's shambolic charm is here to stay.
Instead of dumbing himself down, Hix wants to smarten us up, giving us the confidence to cook something more ambitious than kedgeree or fish pie.
The most ambitious crusading expedition of the later Middle Ages had ended in humiliating failure.
It is difficult to make neat generalizations about this wide-ranging and ambitious volume.
Former colleagues of Usi describe him as intelligent, ambitious and volatile.
He was a quiet person, not overly ambitious but always eager to reconcile disputes between opposing parties.
Young, thrusting and ambitious, the partnership had put the wind up some of the crustier firms of Scottish beancounters.
Tough, frighteningly ambitious, politically savvy, and willing to take outsize risks.
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Roland Lazenby goes far deeper in the most ambitious Jordan biography to date.
So after a year of record killings, an ambitious rescue effort is underway to airlift the great beasts to safety.
Without the community, the ultimate destiny of any preservation project, no matter how ambitious, will be short-lived.
Smart and ambitious, he seemed to epitomize the success of that northern migration experienced by millions of southern blacks.
Although not his most ambitious work, this novel is a wonderful example of Johnson operating in his most readable mode.
Mad Men, the ambitious, award-winning AMC series, is embarking upon its seventh and final season this Sunday.
That is, if archeology could let it stand without spinning the hard facts to fit an ambitious pre-conceived political agenda.
A former Goldman partner, a minister, and seminary president have a biblically ambitious plan to help the company do just that.
A former Goldman partner, a minister, and seminary president have an biblically ambitious plan to help the company do just that.
Christine is very flirtatious, giggling, caressing, and locking eyes with her ambitious underling.
His ambitious drive at the next ball found Graham Thorpe in the slips.
Today, however, ambitious politicians feel no compunction at launching initial campaigns as strangers and newcomers.
With very few exceptions the patriots of this country are all timid adventurers led by ambitious intriguers, avid speculators who never dared to take up arms in our favour.
That's an ambitious enterprise and, regrettably, the work is let down from achieving such divine afflatus by sloppy editing and far too many solecisms.
It's an ambitious project that's reconnecting the bush from the karri forests in the South West corner across to the semi-arid woodlands around Kalgoorlie.
She was flattered and courted, till the simple, but keen-witted and ambitious peasant girl had her head turned by the brilliancy of this new world.
Here also there was an ambitious programme of church building in the twelfth century, as favoured churches and chapels were transformed into parish kirks.
This is an ambitious 18-track programme piece redolent of the history, mystery, and eloquent loneliness in the Border hills of the composer's childhood.
Scientists now fear the bruising experience will make it more difficult to wring cash out of the government for similar ambitious projects in the future.
They have also announced ambitious and long-term plans to refurnish the picturesque Rudkins Mill, which is a wonderful landmark on their stretch of canal.
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This is a Hollywood director at the height of his powers creating original, wildly ambitious epics.
One source close to RBOS told this newspaper the bank was not interested in buying a lame duck bank to further its ambitious strategy in the Irish market.
It's a laudably ambitious work, and a frustratingly uneven novel.
The Robert Burns Humanitarian Award won't endow winners with the millions showered on Nobel laureates, but it is as ambitious and international in scope.
The exhibitions are lavishly funded and extremely ambitious in scale.
She is opportunistic, an individualist, ambitious risk-taker.
Really, expecting 41-year-old eminem to channel his late-20s self was an impossibly ambitious demand.
It is a wildly ambitious essay that has been anthologized elsewhere, but it resonates here more than ever, finally nestled among the other work that occasioned it.
I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
The Black PrinceBy Iris Murdoch This is my favourite novel of all time and is structurally extremely ambitious.
In his first term, dan Malloy enacted a hugely ambitious progressive agenda.
To rout this pest, scientists at the labs from coast to coast are making the sharpshooter and the Xylella microbe the focus of ambitious new studies.
Baker is the gold standard for the job, ambitious, charming and indisputably effective at managing the levers of power.
This ambitious work is remarkably astringent and contemporary.
The Green Mountain State has been ambitious in its efforts to get insurance for all.
The sexist expects men to be ambitious, aggressive, dominant, economically self-sufficient, excited by sports and money, lustful, and emotionally strong.
Clearly an ambitious and avaricious individual, she began to specialise in offering services to women who did not want to keep their new-born babies.
Long awaited and heavily hyped, this ambitious new complex famed for its high-end restaurant also houses a tea room, art gallery and the Sketch Bar.
While as ambitious as the next man, Davies genuinely believes he would not have got where he is now without the help of his former boss at Preston.
It's certainly ambitious and unusual, a traditional story told in a bravura, experimental style, which at times is hilarious but at others teeters on the edge of tedium.
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Deeply ambitious and spanning multiple countries, Touch is an intriguing concept and definitely one to watch for midseason.
He depicts Jobs as both a wildly ambitious businessman and a starry-eyed idealist.
It's easy to perceive the Super Furries as too ambitious for their own good, as they cavort guilelessly from West Coast rock to nosebleed techno, from mariachi to calypso.
I know much of that stemmed from it having a tiny staff with ambitious goals.
Our meritocracy has become the ideology of a self-concerned, infinitely ambitious, and basically fearful economy.
Less ambitious barbotine wares occur in the Danubian areas and in Egypt.
They have a bunch of ambitious interns throw something together in a day.
Within this climate, ambitious young professionals could find plenty of opportunities for promotion and self-advancement if they proved themselves dynamic and capable.
Whether women are less ambitious than men is open to debate.
Autobiographies of overly ambitious youth relate how they were harassed by their classmates and warned against the sin of pride by the priest and nuns.
This is a residential program for illiterate to semi-literate girls between 12 and 18 years with the ambitious objective of returning them to Class 5 in formal schools.
Private investigators are infiltrating Scottish firms to identify ambitious high-flyers and talentless time-servers for companies planning takeovers.
Calasso reconstruction is, in Mounts' judgment, a superbly ambitious, quirky, querulous, lyrical, and finally persuasive essay.
Either one of these alone is surmountable for a skilled and ambitious politician.
But these are minor quibbles for a work as unrelentingly ambitious and suspenseful as A Dance With Dragons.
An ambitious Swiss packaging company, tetra Pak, presents another alternative to Bag-in-Box.
You can't walk down the streets in the touristy harbor front area without being accosted by ambitious salesmen insisting you order a suit from the tailor they represent.
Over the past two years, he has orchestrated an ambitious overhaul, slashing costs, shuttering facilities, and cutting layers of middle management.
As a lure for the ambitious, Silicon Valley and San Francisco are replacing Wall Street.
We will therefore next examine some impacts of the Shinkansen on Japanese society and discuss changing circumstances which militate against the original ambitious plan.
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At a rally in Pittsburgh a week before the election, Johnson laid out an ambitious, transformative vision for the United States.
I in turn don't contain even the merest trace elements of sympathy for the ambitious, vain and greedy trendoids who masquerade as contestants on these shows.
The Royal Danish Academy began an ambitious project to undertake a topographical survey of Denmark and also to use triangulation to determine geographical coordinates.
Having failed to find funding for other, more ambitious scripts, the trio realized the wisdom in sticking with a subject they knew and doing the story as a mockumentary.
He is immensely ambitious, unashamedly modelling himself on Julius Caesar.
They are well connected, ambitious, dynamic and terrifyingly busy.
Prodi's ambitious plans for EU expansion to the east will be sidetracked.
Gilmartin will tell the Flood Tribunal that attempts were made to bleed him for payments in return for political assistance with his ambitious plans.
The expansion is part of EzRemit's ambitious geographical growth plan, with UBEs large branch network adding 38 locations throughout Egypt.
She has made ambitious concept albums and duetted with Tom Jones and Robert Plant, and lived to tell the tale.
In the end, Napoleon's Empire was destroyed before the ambitious buildup could be completed.
Far more ambitious than her previous novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was a great success and rapidly outsold Emily's Wuthering Heights.
Using charts to identify trends is probably the slickest of the expert liar's tricks, and this stuff can get ambitious, mathwise.
Cornerways recently put up new glass, Wight Salads is in the process of doing so, and Fresca has launched its ambitious Thanet Earth development.
Under the direction of the former exhibitions secretary Norman Rosenthal, the Academy has hosted ambitious exhibitions of contemporary art.
In many parts of Europe, the term is also applied to ambitious private mansions of the aristocracy.
Important overseas colonies, a vast merchant marine, powerful navy and large profits made the Dutch the main challengers to an ambitious England.
Though a steady increase was achieved, that ambitious target could not be reached, in part limited by the number of suitably qualified teachers.
Manchester Airport has made no secret of ambitious development plans to meet the growing demand to fly.
He's superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious and consumed by dubious ideology and bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith.
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Like many of Brunel's ambitious projects, the ship soon ran over budget and behind schedule in the face of a series of technical problems.
Service abroad on behalf of the Empire lost its allure to ambitious young people, who left Scotland permanently.
However, her cute and breathless girliness was an elaborate cover up for a very clever young woman who was both ambitious and ruthless.
The ambitious plan is just one of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed elixirs for the moribund system.
Those that did go were mainly the sons of wealthy or ambitious fathers who could afford to pay the attendance fee.
Northumberland was furiously ambitious, and aimed to secure Protestant uniformity while making himself rich with land and money in the process.
The NES puts forward ambitious goals and targets in terms of the Turkish labor market's performance.
He didn't know then that he had hired the Attila the Hun of ambitious young lawyers.
Philip VI had assembled a large naval fleet off Marseilles as part of an ambitious plan for a crusade to the Holy Land.
Both of us are ambitious but she's a bit more of a ballbuster with her husband.
An ambitious Everton start had already seen Barthez backbreakingly tip over Scot Gemmill's dipping long range shot.
Regenerative Processing Plant, LLC has accepted this ambitious challenge and has registered their intent to participate.
I expected this ambitious, thrusting, go-getting woman about town to choose the latter option.
There's more where that came from, and it's all here in AKA, the ambitious but messy debut feature by writer-director Duncan Roy.
His mother wore the trousers, and father, a gentle man who worked in local government, was not ambitious enough for her.
There are precious few large-scale, ambitious, original works.
In appropriate Shatnerian style, it quickly became a very ambitious undertaking.
In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill.
In 1999 Central Railway proposed using the Woodhead Tunnel as part of an ambitious scheme to connect Liverpool to London.
His childhood was characterised by the contrasting influences of his father and mother, both fiercely ambitious for him.
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The ambitious project looked to reconnect old street patterns while creating a new retail, commercial and living destination in the city.
The completion of his first canal led the duke to undertake a more ambitious work.
Countries ambitious to develop and deploy nuclear weapons are discouraged from doing so by countries that already possess them.
Hans Luther was ambitious for himself and his family, and he was determined to see Martin, his eldest son, become a lawyer.
The FTAAP is more ambitious in scope than the Doha round, which limits itself to reducing trade restrictions.
This measure would turn out to be effective against ambitious dissident juniors like Tommaso Portinari.
Having abandoned Sanchuelo, the Berbers who had formed his army turned to another ambitious Umayyad, Sulayman, whom they supported.
Instability continued, and Haidallah's ambitious reform attempts foundered.
It is the most ambitious literary undertaking of medieval Denmark and is an essential source for the nation's early history.
The second order, those who fight, was the rank of the politically powerful, ambitious, and dangerous.
However, Orestes proved to be ambitious, and before the end of that year Orestes had driven Nepos from Italy.
The story of his career shows that Augustus was indeed ruthless, cruel, and ambitious for himself.
In 2014 they began using the Smallbrook Stadium for their 1st Team home fixtures and are ambitious to regain past glories.
Later in her career Morisot worked with more ambitious themes, such as nudes.
Despite this Dave Thomas, managing director of Adidas in India is ambitious of the country's potential.
Cohn's promotion comes as Nickelodeon enjoys one of its most ambitious original programming slates ever in its 31 year history.
A bright, ambitious kid just out of technical school, learning railroading from the ground up.
Afterwards, Severus returned to Syria for a time to plan a much more ambitious campaign.
James's policies during the 1470s revolved primarily around ambitious continental schemes for territorial expansion and alliance with England.
He was also an ambitious builder, constructing many new roads, aqueducts, and canals across the Empire.
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Her many subplots are ambitious, but she tackles them well while developing her many characters with finesse.
Tyrwhitt proposed a more ambitious operation to capture the mole and the town, as a prelude to advancing on Antwerp.
It was one of the most ambitious projects ever taken during the Colonial Hong Kong era.
An ambitious building program was initiated, but realised very slowly because of economic constraints.
Plans for restoration of this area are much debated, and some of the more ambitious ideas have been highly controversial.
The question of whether they'd actually pull off the ambitious Mayday was part of the appeal.
The Buchanan Plan of 1964 envisaged a highly ambitious extended city centre, crossed with urban motorways.
Their textbook is divided into thirty extensive and ambitious chapters which cover everything from the alphabet to the optative mood.
More ambitious was the visit to Brittany in 1889 and in 1891 Professor John Rees organised a trip to Kerry in Ireland.
A most ambitious project was the publication in 1888 of a facsimile edition of Thomas Dineley's Progress of.
The ambitious programme ran into financial difficulties, and the service was again put out to tender.
Proposed plans had been drawn up prewar for the postwar years which were extremely ambitious, especially in the austere postwar years.
The ambitious Octavian built a power base of patronage and then launched a campaign against Mark Antony.
Her father was a government cryptographer and her mother, an ambitious stage-mom who pushed Elaine to perform in public.
The ambitious project sought to create a versatile common fighter for many roles and services.
ReaDMe has the ambitious goal to systematically define the sensitivity of TFs to local levels of DNA methylation in vivo.
A highly educated wife was an asset for the socially ambitious household, but one that Martial regards as an unnecessary luxury.
For the socially ambitious, bilingual education in Greek as well as Latin was a must.
Looking pack on the development of MFM 12 years ago, Landry, the organization's founding executive director, admits it was an ambitious project.
The cabinet initiated an ambitious programme of reforming the welfare state, the healthcare system, and immigration policy.
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Over the course of the following decade Kapoor's sculptures ventured into more ambitious manipulations of form and space.
His talented and ambitious son, Perseus, took the throne and showed a renewed interest in conquering Greece.
His own music is highly ambitious, capable of attracting a supreme team of Stateside-based sidemen.
Sullivan began his composing career with a series of ambitious works, interspersed with hymns, parlour ballads and other light pieces.
How often is the ambitious man mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought!
Only after an ambitious rebuilding program in combination with Spain was France again able to challenge Britain's command of the sea.
Additionally, the learning and literacy found in monasteries served as useful tools for ambitious kings.
The British girl flew out to Vanuatu last month to take part in an ambitious volunteering project.
Indeed Novel Tectonics seems to have just as an ambitious point of departure as Tschumi's little book.
An ambitious redevelopment of Stamford Bridge threatened the financial stability of the club, star players were sold and the team were relegated.
The orchestra was willing to allow the ambitious conductor Albert Coates to put himself forward as chief conductor.
Gordon Strachan, one of those corruptibly ambitious aides cloned by the Nixon administration, once carefully catalogued five varieties of leaks.
The ambitious young student hobnobbed with the faculty at the prestigious college he hoped to attend.
Young, ambitious copygirl Paddy is fascinated by the story and waits, along with the rest of the city, for the inevitable arrest of a murderer.
And it's a family that's severely dysfunctional as the ambitious and sociopathic Ucok jostles to topple his father and expand his empire.
Between 1793 and 1795 Austen wrote Lady Susan, a short epistolary novel, usually described as her most ambitious and sophisticated early work.
After the triumph, Caesar set out to pass an ambitious legislative agenda.
Meanwhile, Garner vamps it up as the ambitious social climber whose bullying father doesn''t blink twice when Arthur accidentally shoots him with a nail gun.
The ambitious fortification efforts collapsed, worsening the impoverished conditions of the local populace and resulting in colonization by Slavic warriors and their families.
When Orgetorix, one of their most prominent and ambitious noblemen, was making plans to establish himself as their king, he faced execution by burning if found guilty.

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