Kevin Pietersen seemed to be battling through but aimed a very ambitious shot at a ball that wasn't there.
Travelling to the badlands of Arizona or Wyoming is a tad ambitious even for a long weekend, but there is a corner of Europe with impeccable cinematic credentials as a stand-in for the Wild West.
But an American divorce-insurance company, SafeGuard, is planning a more ambitious product that will pay a big bonus to those who stay married for 25 years.
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If the U.S. doesn't adopt the flat tax it may find itself losing jobs, capital and ambitious entrepreneurs to nations with a more ambitious growth agenda.
As the region's population goes on growing, several plans for improving its infrastructure have emerged, ranging from a central-area project developed by the city's planners to a more ambitious regional scheme that comes from a group called Metropolis 2020.
So we've announced a very ambitious and started to move on a very aggressive set of programs to help bring down mortgage interest rates, to reduce mortgage payments, millions of Americans will benefit from those programs, and again, you're going to see tens of thousands of small businesses see more access to credit because of the result of these programs.
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The design here is impeccable, a truly ambitious and exciting and gorgeous display of building a linear game that is not linear, an open world that is not open, filled to the brim with secrets and wonder.
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The mayor is a hugely ambitious man, who is undoubtedly keen to leave a lasting legacy, and who some believe may want to remain as mayor for a period of Daleyian proportions.
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The plans are a twist on a more ambitious previous proposal to significantly overhaul the ship and convert it into a luxury hotel docked alongside one of the sheikdom's manmade palm-shaped islands.
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"On a lot of substantive issues like health insurance, he was the first one out of the box with a very ambitious universal plan, and I think he forced the others to become bolder in a lot of their policy prescriptions, energy dependence and so on, " Klein said.
My understanding however is that Downing Street and the Treasury are engaged on a more ambitious project, to investigate whether it might be possible to create what might be seen as a British sovereign wealth fund.
For the start of the second half manager Rafael Benitez introduced Djibril Cisse and Harry Kewell, a change that saw a more ambitious approach, but the poverty of their play in the opening period gave them too much of a mountain to climb.
One way or another, this is a great addition to a really ambitious, impressive new IP.
To draw a real crowd for a Greek tragedy is a more ambitious project.
Without Cuba's help, he will almost certainly be overthrown by a more ambitious student of chavismo.
Yet Singapore Airlines has seized on its rivals' misfortunes to embark on a decidedly ambitious path.
The government has reintroduced the internal market, but on a more ambitious scale than in the 1990s.
Cave paintings discovered at this location convince an aging businessman to bankroll a wildly ambitious interstellar mission.
Primarily a real-time strategy experience with arcade elements, it was a hugely ambitious game for its time.
In terms of trade, it is also time to develop a more ambitious common framework for investments.
It is a very ambitious Copa - possibly too ambitious, and there could be problems along the way.
But he says he grew distracted by other things, and had in mind a more ambitious research project.
Instead, ministers will have to choose between finishing a less ambitious agenda on time, or extending the timetable.
Case in point, Mondelez recently announced a very ambitious and interesting new mobile-technology initiative with nine different start-ups.
But he is likely to be disappointed: no consensus exists for a really ambitious defence project in Europe.
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Some might object that root-and-branch tax reform is a hopelessly ambitious scheme, but this only encourages Mr Forbes.
That would be an operating margin of 8.5%, not a particularly ambitious target.
Already India is seeing a mad rush to set up special economic zones--a less ambitious step-- throughout the country.
Keidanren, Japan's business lobby, recently floated a less ambitious version of the idea.
NASA, plans to launch a more ambitious exoplanet-hunter, called Kepler, in October 2008.
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