Phoenix has thrived because it has been for the rest of America what America is for the world: a magnet for ambitious and restless people.
Critics say it is little more than a vehicle for ambitious party barons, most of whom despise each other.
Politically motivated and fraught with nonsensical change, it's not a natural fit for ambitious graduates who leave school expecting results from a logical combination of education and effort.
For example, Nour is a Moroccan entrepreneur with an interesting but ambitious plan for creating a social network based on trust between users.
Curriculum for Excellence sets a "rightly ambitious agenda" for reform in Scottish education, he added.
Paul, might have become a regular stop for ambitious young Democrats seeking high office.
But he is likely to be disappointed: no consensus exists for a really ambitious defence project in Europe.
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This should be a wonderful opening for ambitious and creative PR staff.
As he gave his final address, Mr Wen seemed to have abandoned his former bold demands and called instead for a less ambitious goal.
Tech haven, Launch Pad, has become a breeding ground for ambitious digital media professionals by offering the young creatives and entrepreneurs shared office space, while its precursor, Launch Pad Ignition, provides a select group of tech entrepreneurs with business assistance through its annual accelerator program.
The war is now drained of all ideology: it is a struggle for power between an ambitious rebel leader and a venal government.
In other words, it is a report arguing for a model that is more ambitious, more labor-intensive, and riskier, without the promise of outright success.
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We upheld the spirit of service at the core of our democracy, and we widened the circle of opportunity not just for a privileged few, but for the ambitious many.
The former England captain rejected other offers and signed a five-month contract for the ambitious French club on Thursday in a stunning move that came as the transfer window was starting to close.
The engine is for the Skylon project, an ambitious scheme for a craft that would realise a long-cherished dream: to fly non-stop from airport to cosmos.
To draw a real crowd for a Greek tragedy is a more ambitious project.
For all its rigidity, the Soviet Union offered some social mobility and a way for bright, politically ambitious or well-connected people from the provinces to rise to the top.
Yet dropping out of college has become almost a rite of passage for ambitious technology entrepreneurs.
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Primarily a real-time strategy experience with arcade elements, it was a hugely ambitious game for its time.
He was known as a ruthless ruler who murdered his own wives and members of his family, as well as a visionary respected for his ambitious building projects.
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.
While the global media bashing goes justifiably unabated, what Anthony Jenkins of Barclays is doing right now is to try and set a workable framework of an ambitious goal for the bank (give him a break) with all his timed initiatives to save and grow the franchise.
Breathing room A BIG BOOST for Oxygen Media, Geraldine Laybourne's ambitious attempt to create women's programming in a converged format for the Internet and cable TV (Feb. 22).
"There's definitely a chance for cannibalization because there are some ambitious projects going on, a lot of investment, " says Stefan Laban, senior vice president of Gap Inc.
Apple would be in a position of having to continually maintain its position of having the best app for a given function, and ambitious developers would have an incentive to rethink core aspects of the iOS user experience.
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When I say "more ambitious", I mean a lot more ambitious than the options for leveraging the EFSF which emerged out of European finance ministers meeting on Tuesday.
The group plans to build 200, 000 a year, the most ambitious production target so far for a pure-battery car.
Offering a platform for consumer action was ambitious and seemed appropriate for the times, but it backfired.
In terms of trade, it is also time to develop a more ambitious common framework for investments.
Meanwhile, Mexico has passed a law that calls for an ambitious reform of all its state and municipal police forces.
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