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Patriotism: Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Analysts say Chrome OS is an ambitious long-term strategic move, but any impact on the company's financial performance would be years away.

But Asia is ambitious enough, said producer Chen Weiming on the side of a press event Monday in Beijing. 'We're just too far from the U.

As expected my energy level began to wane after a few months on the road, and my original ambitious itinerary grew a bit shorter.

The ambitious junior finally decided to leave school in pursuit of more lucrative movie roles by heading for the Big Apple.

American universities currently seem to be the best, judging from the flow of ambitious students.

And the count of Anjou needed a crown, as he was an ambitious and accomplished knight, but only a younger brother of the king.

Maybe I was too ambitious to ask the best way to see a glimpse of Da Vinci's work in Venice from someone who didn't seem to care.

Many residents of the capital have come to see it as a rebuke to CCTV's ambitious plans to modernize its image.

how much pain each of its 27 members will have to bear over if the EU is to meet ambitious targets set by national leaders last March.

THE MAN: Well, that, from the beginning he never felt a real trust with you, that you were ambitious.

Indeed, world leaders seem to be competing with one another to churn out ever more ambitious targets on global warming.

The Dragonbane project was one of the most ambitious projects in the history of LARP, and some critics expected it would never run.

This single mother was ambitious for her son and made up her mind to make him a big fish out of a common boy.

It lost its way around the middle of the last decade, when ambitious dramas like "Deadwood" and "Rome" failed to stick.

Like all periods of great change, it was a time of ambitious plans and endless possibilities.

The B-2 bomber, commonly known as the stealth bomber, was an ambitious project, to say the least.

As if that wasn't ambitious enough, they also wanted to slice up the traffic on this network.

However, it is not currently clear how ambitious Apollo's plans for the bank will prove, people familiar with the matter say.

On the flip side, some ambitious Chinese entrepreneurs are trying to make it in Africa. For more, see here.

Brazil is at the heart of BG's ambitious growth strategy for the next decade and is one of the company's four "main centres" of investment.

It also suggests that practices may have been over-ambitious in the level of health promotion they were trying to provide.

Needless to say, ZeroMQ is an ambitious project, and this short introduction only scratches the surface of the full feature set.

And while the U. S. struggles to fund new development, China seems to have limitless resources to pursue its ambitious goals.

I feel a bit of bitterness for his ambitious exhibition.

So our biggest risk is overspending and being overly ambitious when the market is not as hot as you think.

There was a time when ambitious foreigners had little choice but to put up with America's restrictive ways.

It depends on the type of company we work for, how ambitious we are and how much pressure we are under.

Jack was an ambitious young man; one of his dreams was to fight his way into the fashionable world.

It had waited for me to be born, and then it had waited for me to be suddenly crippled in both legs during my wildly ambitious youth.

Mr Hayward was appointed with a mission to be a different kind of leader from his ambitious, visionary predecessor.

That may be why it took so long to fill the job with an ambitious figure of substance, as President Obama seems to have done here.

I assumed Mika was like every other ambitious young artist, trying to move into video art merely because painting was so denigrated.

Talks aimed at getting all African countries to sign up to ambitious regional trade deals failed to break the deadlock.

What's more, no matter how ambitious he could be, he might just be too weak to carry out any of his grand plans.

I should be given the opportunity to be a part of an ambitious project that will measure up to my professional needs.

His superiors don't seem to notice, and to tell them would make me seem disloyal and overly ambitious.

It was obvious to me that the available forces were far too small for such an extremely ambitious plan.

By the early 2000s it had "The Sopranos" , "Sex and the City" and "The Wire" as well as ambitious mini-series like "Band of Brothers" .

She is ambitious and saves what money she can so she can buy at least a bit of fertilizer for her maize crop.

We are ready to collaborate with all of you in executing this ambitious research agenda.

Bill Clinton's administration was bedevilled by self-serving leaks from ambitious staffers trying to promote themselves or their cause.

To see whether they had been made docile by his ambitious displays and would permit him to amuse himself with such innovations.

He said the North Koreans continue to pursue new ways to stimulate the agricultural sector but cannot fund their ambitious projects.

Even more ambitious is Mr. Anderson's plan to turn TED into a sort of nonprofit media company.

So he who would not exploit or contribute to the cause of war must cease to follow tradition, cease to be greedy, ambitious, self-seeking.

In response, Donley said the Air Force will likely "be less ambitious" if it is cleared to begin a new CSAR helo program.

Though the U. S. is still burdened with a large deficit, officials argue that its ambitious stimulus program has helped spur growth.

Pls take a moment here and evaluate realistically some subsets of your grand and ambitious ideas that might be most doable.

AIG is selling off the business as part of an ambitious restructuring it has had to undertake to pay off an $85 billion government loan.

Barack Obama said he wanted to see the logjam broken in the next couple of days and urged members of Congress to think in ambitious terms.

It was the shrine to which most ambitious young writers of the era made their pilgrimage.

There was no sign of a shift from the German chancellor either on a more ambitious mission for the ECB in addressing the crisis.

Drift-II is more ambitious. If it works, it will be able to track such a recoiling nucleus through a device filled with gas.

"Once upon a time, there was an ambitious young man who didn't read The Economist. The End, " read one particularly audacious ad from 2004.

To be sure, this remains an ambitious objective, but we have yet to see a national response to climate change proportional to the risks.

Additionally, her desire to stop the unmarried masses from making sweet, sweet love to one another was astoundingly ambitious.

Mr Bo, tough, sophisticated and ambitious, comes from the Communist aristocracy - his father was one of Mao Zedong's leading comrades.

Trying to be perfect may be sort of inevitable for people like us, who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world.

The tunnel was one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever undertaken.

the single-mindedly ambitious people have done to ambition--given it a bad name.

And yet she was interested in her charms, quick to understand the keener pleasures of life, ambitious to gain in material things.

And the ambitious centre-back has admitted a move to a club fighting for a place in Europe would appeal to him.

At a time when the personal computer was in its infancy, it was an ambitious approach to operate this way.

When he was aware that his health was deteriorating, the once ambitious entrepreneur relinquished all control over the business to his son.

Yet even if politicians take their eyes off the ball at their feet, they have their sights firmly set on an ambitious horizon.

Only's got more money than god, ambitious former British minister Mr Gus cyprioe_ only white have had such a great ability.

The Master's vision is so ambitious and brilliant that I suppose I can be forgiven a few doubts.

To withdraw from them he must not allow himself to be influenced, nor follow traditional occupation, nor must he be envious and ambitious.

We have arrived at the point in a crisis when ambitious leaders call for a "new Bretton Woods" .

The Copenhagen accord's weak legal status is another impediment in trying to persuade nations to be more ambitious with their commitments.

He was an ambitious man with a strong personality.

Everyone is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.

Something happened to the two people. They became ambitious. The American passion for getting up in the world took possession of them.

In September 2009, Alex Jablonski and Michael Totten set themselves an ambitious goal: to make one documentary every month for a year.

If you think you are honest, facetious, ambitious , and responsible, please write letter to me.

Entrepreneurs are ambitious in the best sense of the word.

Indeed, the company's president has stressed that it lacks sufficient technicians to carry out such ambitious projects.

De Boer today also warned politicians heading to the next round of international climate talks not to be too ambitious.

But then again, any project attempting to tackle such an ambitious challenge is going to be expensive.

The company has ambitious programs to expand into China, refurbish existing restaurants and add items to its menus.

But a far more ambitious approach is needed if the Niger delta is to be persuaded of the federal government's good intentions.

It also is one of the most ambitious Chinese contenders for a chunk of the U. S. market.

He was edged out of his job by his ambitious assistant.

Hannah is the sort of determined, ambitious and driven young woman who would make any parent proud.

craves only the admiration of his father. The story of the Emperor himself is one of ambitious portray.

If you think you are honest, facetious , ambitious , and responsible, please write lettler to me.

My mother was good enough, and honest enough, to tell me: I married him because he was tough and ambitious, so I wouldn't have to be.

Ideology is no longer a philosophical debate, but a tool employed by ambitious politicians and armchair idealists.

The ultimate aim of an ambitious peace document is for a presidential election, already postponed twice, to be held within ten months.

She was bright, ambitious and, many of her friends said, prettyenough to be a model, though she never wanted that.

If an ambitious Chinese professional wanted an MBA a decade ago, practically the only option was to go abroad.

In those days Hollywood was like a magnet, drawing ambitious young men and women from all over the world.

Instead, Ms Reza sought to capture the dramatic essence of a deeply ambitious man who seems to want "to combat the slippage of time" .

The entire family had been keeping the secret from him to protect the election. Palmer admonishes Sherry of being too ambitious.

"I've [even] heard women complain that she is too ambitious. [But] don't you think anyone running for president should be? "

All this points in a politically as well as philosophically ambitious direction.

Translating such a hugely influential dictionary from Chinese into flawless English is undoubtedly an ambitious and tremendous undertaking.

and that the exploration of violence was an aesthetic opportunity for ambitious filmmakers.

Some are neither capable nor ambitious enough to be king. The remaining contenders include several full brothers of Prince Sultan.

China's biggest companies have begun an ambitious campaign to advertise themselves abroad, popping up in Hollywood movies.

Though gas meters were considered more difficult to tamper with, this had not deterred some ambitious freeloaders.

They're after something far more ambitious: a China that lives up to their sense of national greatness.

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

Everybody is ambitious at the start of the year; the main thing is that you are always ambitious to play, and I've always been that.

Jim Lin, of Los Angeles, a business-development director for a software company, was raised by an ambitious Tiger Mom.

Late in 1981 Wolfram then set out on an ambitious new direction in science aimed at understanding the origins of complexity in nature.

The most logical deal, in terms of product lines and rationalising production capacity, was an ambitious offer from Fiat of Italy.

If you get ambitious you could try Russian, as I have been doing for the last two years.

When someone pitched an idea, Page would invariably counter with a variation that was an order of magnitude more ambitious.

It's a remarkably ambitious experiment, and it's going to be at advanced sensitivity within the next few years -- to pick this up.

Settling into a role and rank is not considering stagnation. Turians value knowing one's own limitations more than being ambitious.

The pact appeared to represent President Obama's first victory in his ambitious agenda to move toward a nuclear-free world.

Firms are proposing ambitious transmission lines across the plains. The region's governors and regulators are mulling ways to help them.

She begins to experience a freedom from her ambitious workaholism, even leading a group of strikers on TV in singing Satisfaction.

When they saw him enriching the country before he enriched himself, the good souls said, "He is an ambitious man. "

The government has also been a good deal more ambitious during its first months than most people have quite realised.

'It's important that all countries take bold and ambitious efforts individually and collectively to restore growth, ' he said.

There may be heated encounters along the way since you will tend to attract yourself to competitive or ambitious companions at the moment.

Employers generally like to see their employees setting ambitious but realistic achievement goals for the next 3 to 5 years.

The new sub-brand is part of the German luxury-car maker's ambitious plans to reposition its high-powered marque in a still nascent market.

The group plans to build 200, 000 a year, the most ambitious production target so far for a pure-battery car.

This week the Japanese Government embarks on an ambitious scheme to reinvent the appearance of the Japanese businessman.

The company's debt is set to rise sharply this year, albeit from a low base, as it funds its ambitious investment programme.

He had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

While today's performance could well be seen as the most important "slam dunk" of her life, Wendi has always been proactive and ambitious.

your need for an ambitious, yet secure lifestyle and a sense of adventure.

The firm is now exploring other ways of meeting the ambitious targets that it has set for generating energy from renewable sources.

"One of our watchwords, a phrase that permeates our productions, is 'ambitious but crap', " says Hammond, chuckling to himself.

And IBM is now hoping to take the process to the next level, by creating an ambitious, non-profit water education organization.

Oman has been especially ambitious with its heavy-oil projects as it looks to offset a steep decline in its light-oil production.

Obama's list before he walks into Beijing's Zhongnanhai, the headquarters of China's central government, might be long and ambitious.

EXAMPLE: It took the two ambitious brothers only a few months to form a company after they finished their university studies.

Courageous, ambitious Earth signs, Taurus and Capricorn seem to be made for each other.

Better, he said, to have a less ambitious but longer-term effort of economic aid coupled with a small counter-terrorist force of 20, 000.

The ambitious and the avaricious will no doubt seek more ex- citing hunting grounds with hedge funds and private equity groups.

'We sound very ambitious, but that's because we are a very ambitious nation, ' she said.

But a more ambitious idea is gaining support: to allow the Federal Housing Administration to refinance troubled mortgages at a discount.

With the resources of an ambitious government and a huge, protected domestic market behind them, their progress seems inevitable.

It is an ambitious plan, but Greece may need even more help and the firewall does not look strong enough to withstand a bout of contagion.

As an ambitious job-seeker, therefore , you should be able to prepare all the written material that will help you obtain the job you want.

There's no reason to be over ambitious. Getting things done early is highly recommended but only for your own advantage.

The statecraft that America is called to practice in today's world is ambitious, even revolutionary, but it is not imprudent.

He suggests it was an equally vital strategy to purchase stock shares for Chinese companies, who are ambitious to invest in foreign markets.

Back then Liverpool Football Club gave me the opportunity to be part of an ambitious plan to put the Reds back at the summit of the game.

Han Xin made his living by fishing in his early days but he was very ambitious . He kept a sword with him everyday.

But in attempting to integrate online teaching, it is best not to be overly ambitious in the beginning.

The provincial government has even more ambitious port works it is trying to launch by October.

Initially at least, Comac's ambitious goal will not bring it into direct competition with Airbus and Boeing.

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In reality, Alexis's greatest crime was to be the weedy eldest son of an ambitious father.

All this helped spawn a troupe of new and ambitious Brazilian multinationals (see our special report).

Mr Cameron's coalition government is at least as ambitious.

It is a hopeful literature and declares that much may be done by simple ambitious people who own a few hens, do not be led astray by it.

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Merkel reiterated on Wednesday that Germany expected Greece to implement an "ambitious" austerity programme if it wanted a helping hand.

If I'd tried to have a more ambitious work-out, I'm sure I wouldn't have exercised at all.

For China, the potential break-up is one of the biggest diplomatic tests yet for Beijing's ambitious push into overseas natural resources.

Functioning like a magnet, Hollywood draws ambitious young people from all over the world.

When a politician talks of peace, it is merely double talk, for to be a politician is to be at heart ambitious, violent.

Nations with ambitious energy-conservation and renewable-energy programs appear particularly willing to let prices rise.

But even in a peaceful age and ambitious or not is still judge a man's standards.

One disadvantage of being young and ambitious was that both of them needed to devote untold hours to their busy schedules.

I'm ambitious, I know this club is ambitious and I hope I can turn it around - get a trophy, get the club into Europe in the next few years.

As well as a heavy financial blow, the collapse of the venture would dent Fortis's ambitious China expansion plans.

Mobile phones are now seen as a vital tool of development, whereas Mr Negroponte's laptop project has failed to meet its ambitious goals.

She said they're all ambitious and the business is too small fo them as it is.

Jaguar knight was an ambitious person and wanted to be rich and powerful.

The EU said it had "ambitious aims" for the summit and regretted the cancellation.

It's pretty amazing to be able to do something so theatrical and ambitious.

We are the future of our motherland, should be like the old man as ambitious, to seek better, bigger targets.

The most ambitious of these projects is in Toshka, a Sahara Desert oasis in a scorched lunar landscape of sand and rock outcroppings .

This marks an unceremonious end of an ambitious technological misadventure by the DRDO -- country's premier defence R&D agency.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams.

Next week, Jennifer Pharr Davis will begin an attempt to break her own record on the AT, hiking an ambitious average of 46 miles a day.

It sounds like an audacious, ridiculously ambitious project, but it isn't really.

The UK and China must work together and with our international partners to implement all the ambitious commitments made at Johannesburg.

By comparison, Alec was the least ambitious man she had ever met.

Republicans accuse the president of taking advantage of the economic crisis to push an overly ambitious and ill-advised domestic agenda.

In rural areas, the government has embarked on an ambitious plan to seize land stolen by the mafias and return it to its original owners.

More sceptical, self-reliant, ambitious and socially engaged than their elders, they have grown impatient for a voice and a role.

But the ambitious aircraft instead illustrates how the Pentagon can let huge and complex programs veer out of control.

This reveals that you're innovative, ambitious, and looking for ways to improve the company.

Completing a reasonably ambitious Doha round would be a good start -- but only a start.

He has an ambitious dream, a career he loves deeply, and is always struggling for his dream.

It is hard enough for governments to make commitments on the public sector. To do so for the entire economy may be a touch ambitious.

To the intellectually adventurous and the ambitious it was the gateway to a wider world.

Shortly after the meltdown at Three Mile Island, the U. S. nuclear industry began an ambitious overhaul of its safety practices.

Something is obviously amiss in this ambitious project, the Russian equivalent of the U. S. Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS).

May Day marked the beginning of one of China's more ambitious projects: to ban smoking in public places.

Looking at their ambitious energy, Uncle De praised that they were full of the spirit of daring to bite the big bone like ants.

These traits require a degree of modesty scarce among those ambitious enough to clamber to the top.

The overall aim, an ambitious one, is to sustain the next 30 years of growth.

Beijing is rationing electricity supply as it rushes to meet ambitious energy and environmental targets by the year's end.

How can love happen in such a violent, ambitious and competitive world where everyone sieges others by the throat?

They were very good at the business side of things. They were never as ambitious product-wise as they should have been.

We offer an informal company culture, with a young, enthusiastic and ambitious team, servicing multinational high-profile customers.

She started off wide-eyed, driven, and nothing but ambitious and optimistic.

But if he cannot run for re-election in 2011 his ambitious son Gamal may not be able to take over.

About this time an ambitious young reporter from New York arrived one morning at Gatsby's door.

China. The company has charted out highly ambitious plans to deliver quality products and services to the customers.

Medical applications might be as ambitious as new types of genetic therapies and antiaging treatments.

Moving ambitious people upward tends to lock down other capable people on the team.

We are looking for smart, talented, and ambitious team players that have a strong desire to grow and do excellent work.

A brilliant painter, the greatest of his age, he was also, from the start, an ambitious one.

Possibly, Chiang Ch'ing, along with her allies, realized that giving the interviews made her look too nakedly ambitious.

Ambitious young Italians are quitting their country in droves, leaving power in the hands of an elderly and out-of-touch elite.

Do ambitious politicians love the climbers who take the front seats from them?

In the end, Thompson's idea is a very clever one, and I plan to make use of it in less ambitious ways.

Tony Stephanois, just out of prison and angry at his girl Mado s infidelity, decides to join his pals Jo and Mario in an ambitious crime.

While Jack bristled under the limitations of what he saw as an absurd policy, the pragmatic and ambitious Ryan Chappelle chose to adapt.

We are proposing the most ambitious overhaul of the financial regulatory system since the Great Depression.

Rockstar Games and Amazon have teamed up to create an ambitious new model for digital music distribution.

What makes this scheme merely ambitious, rather than totally crazy, is that you might need do it in only a few places.

E. G. Ambitious boy cannot be so foolish as to indulge in sports at the expense of their school student.

I truly believe i would not be the strong and ambitious person i am today if i did not have a hearing disability.

So is an effective balance between aggressive and ambitious decisions and an understanding of the evolving risk profile.

The other ambitious members of your staff will immediately agitate for raises as well.

It is not unlikely to be an associate at a firm, and the more ambitious individuals may possibly have achieved the title of partner.

No doubt, you will be working toward ambitious professional aspirations and will realize your true source of personal power.

It's an exciting and ambitious scientific agenda, and I hope you'll take a moment to read about it.

If free trade is not ambitious enough, Mr Kan has set out to confront another taboo by June, with plans to raise the consumption tax.

Haier should be like the sea, because the sea, like Haier has established ambitious goals, it should be open to the sea the same mind.

Paul Kagame, the ambitious president of a small but well-regarded country, wins another election in a landslide.

What remains to be seen, is whether the targets are sufficiently ambitious and how fast companies in these countries can respond.

He , with his simplicity and inexperience, was an easy prey for ambitious females .

Owing to his pursuit of perfectionism, his demand asks for an ambitious group, which, in my opinions, might mean signing some big names.

Mm. Her husband is an unpleasant person, too. Very ambitious. He wants to be the chairman of the board.

Original Text : An ambitious international attempt to re-late and rethink design education has recently taken place.

Ambitious Schafernaker has courted controversy before when he appeared seminaked on the cover of a gay magazine Attitude Active .

Mary is ambitious enough to aspire to conversational fluency in Chinese in two months.

The spread threatens one of the most ambitious health campaigns in the world, the effort to destroy the crippling disease once and for all.

But, instead of being the demure queen expected of her, she was assertive and ambitious.

With that background out of the way, let's move on to more ambitious tasks.

Creation of a mutually beneficial development ecosystem seems ambitious and promising, but could be far-fetched.

That could make her the embodiment of the modern career woman and a role model for millions more ambitious female executives.

China's intentions to set new and ambitious targets for renewable energy, revealed in the Guardian yesterday might come as a surprise.

If you don't have good gallery space to put ambitious shows on, it's not worth looking at from our perspective. '

If competitiveness is the aim, why not push for a more ambitious deepening of Europe's single market, particularly in services?

One of his most ambitious design initiatives was taking over the development of the Volkswagen (people's car) from Porsche.

The starting salary, a low $180 a month, turned out to be partly contingent on meeting ambitious sales figures.

How can we expect common people to understand the ambitious and noble behavior of a scholar ?

To find satisfaction you'll need to set ambitious goals, solve challenging problems, and develop strengths you may not know you have.

His ambitious hopes for a peace deal in the Middle East and a nuclear-free world are just getting started.

Some of it looks ambitious, not least the aim to implement and monitor plans for global rebalancing.

But the reality of Clintonomics was more centrist and less ambitious than promised.

When political power is not publicly contested at all, electability is irrelevant and expertise can give the ambitious an edge.

He was ambitious, gentle and kind in his manner with inferiors, and a finished courtier with superiors.

And not shown to others, as an ambitious way forever, forever like an insufferably arrogant.

In the Chamber's annual "State of American Business" report, federation president Tom Donohue advocates an ambitious agenda of reform.