Europe was originally created by three forces: Catholicism, the military threat of Islam and the military ambition of Charles the Great.
His life ambition was to write the "Great American novel" and although this ambition went unrealized, it wasn't for want of trying.
Wakefield is a great testament to the ambition of AIM - the Artificial, Indoor and Mountain Series - to bring skiers and riders from grassroots level through to international competition standard.
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To complete the first route by 2008, Minister Liu, whose ambition and flamboyance earned him the nickname Great Leap Liu, drove his crews and engineers to work in shifts around the clock, laying track, revising blueprints, and boring tunnels.
Of course, if your ambition is to write the Great American Novel, I wish you luck.
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Saddam Hussein al-Takriti's ambition is to become The Great Arab Father.
We have to change in a radical way, the way we changed when we started this country, when we abolished slavery, all the great movements that are the world for people of color and gender rights and yes, work and ambition and prosperity and, yes, even entertainment.
He says that Steve Forbes' 2009 book, Power, Ambition, Glory: The Stunning Parallels Between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today ... and the Lessons You Can Learn, damaged his reputation in its discussions of the criminal conviction.
"Our ambition at the European level isn't to just continue the great EADS adventure but to also conceive of other EADS for other economic sectors with our European partners, " he said.
Its very mediocrity of language and ambition reflects the land it governs a second-class country with a great past, a comfortable present, and modest prospects.
Certainly the words loyalty, fanaticism, pleasure-seeking, competitiveness, ambition and struggle could be applied to that great mid-winter sporting festival known simply as "origin rugby".
To the west of where the pyramid is today was another royal palace, the Tuileries, and it was a long-term ambition of the later French kings to link up both residences with two parallel wings, creating a great central courtyard.
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