These programs offer talented and ambitious A-types the chance to add a dash of do-gooding to their resumes.
The bright, ambitious A-level student wanted to become a lawyer and was hoping to read law at Cardiff University after sitting his exams that coming summer.
That mix was necessary to launch so ambitious a project.
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Not too ambitious a claim, perhaps, considering that the voting in 1995 gave the ruling National Democratic Party a garish 94% of the seats, left 70 people dead and prompted candidates in over half the constituencies to contest the results in court.
"He is not a conformist, he is ambitious, a winner, an authentic man with strong feelings and he wanted to come to Barcelona, " he said.
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.
As is often the case with such labors, the movie is ambitious to a fault.
He laid out ambitious plans a year ago, outlining a complete transformation of the 110-year-old retailer.
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Germany's own goal is more ambitious: a 40% reduction from 1990 by 2020.
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Environmentalists got four out of seven initiatives passed, though the most ambitious, a clean-air plan in California, was frustrated.
His most ambitious was a five-by-six grid called Thirty Are Better Than One.
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It is fine for Mr Hague to secure his leadership and give ambitious colleagues a chance to strut their stuff.
"It was ambitious for a small Israeli company to come into consumer electronics, build a brand and try to push it, " Kupervas emphasized.
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That's certainly plenty ambitious for a company new to the cellphone space, and should no doubt only further fuel those rumors of a certain acquisition.
This AAU initiative is the latest and most ambitious of a number of recent efforts to improve STEM education at the undergraduate level.
This also makes Wave highly ambitious from a technical perspective.
The president's agenda as defined in his address to Congress may have been the most ambitious in a generation or even two, but it was also easily boiled down to a few bullet points: restore financial stability, strengthen education and promote energy independence and health care reform.
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.
He laid out a clear and ambitious plan -- a plan that flows from our core principles, the principles we ran on, our core mission that we said we were going to attend to when we took office a year ago.
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In March 1972, a plaque he designed with legendary astronomer Carl Sagan was blasted into space on board the Pioneer 10 spacecraft. ( Click here to see the Pioneer Plaque.) A few years later, Drake and Sagan would team up again on a much more ambitious project, attaching a gold-plated record full of music and photos onto the two Voyager probes.
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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Two investors are taking a gamble on a rare feat in the modern retail-property market: an ambitious redevelopment of a struggling mall in a small city.
Where else was a smart, ambitious striver with a lower net worth than ever supposed to go?
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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.
Or when The New York Times published a lengthy business feature on another Andreessen Horowitz-funded startup Factual, an admittedly ambitious company with a purpose and a neat back story.
The war is now drained of all ideology: it is a struggle for power between an ambitious rebel leader and a venal government.
In the A plot, the nine-year-old half brothers Phineas and Ferb fill a summer day with some insanely ambitious project: making a building as high as the moon, a time machine, a roller-coaster.
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