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We have been ambitious to acquire in Asia and also to try and win new businesses up here.

We will do our utmost to show our commitment in the fight against doping. We plan to have the most ambitious and comprehensive system of testing ever activated at a world championships.

We would begin implementing this plan almost immediately. We would have to implement a very ambitious program, which we're confident we can do.

This reorganization adopts industry best practices and capitalizes on the strengths of our senior managers, positioning us to achieve our ambitious plans for the next several years.

We got into the game pretty late. Standard forms of marketing are not proving effective, so we've had to come up with a more ambitious marketing plan.

We aspire to stage the best golf tournament in the world. We think we're at an elite level already. But we think we can get better ... this is one of the most ambitious things that's ever happened.

Trying to bring Lee back was an ambitious one. If he had said yes it would have been like Christmas come early.

This was an ambitious endeavor by us to come all the way out here, but as it turns out now, I'm glad we did.

We always set a goal you feel very confident in reaching, and of course we're always hoping to surpass the goal. We were more ambitious on reaching this year's goal as opposed to prior years, and we felt very confident in reaching it.

The governor has an ambitious agenda and a lot of exciting ideas. It's important that he communicate those ideas with the people of California directly in a substantive manner.

We were overly ambitious . . . We just did too many things and they stretched our capacity to manage them.

We are as ambitious as we have ever been and most people at the club will be a part of it's future. However, in all walks of life, people leave jobs and that creates opportunities for others. The issue of new contracts will be dealt with in March.

We are as ambitious as anyone but we are also cautious. If we finish in the top three in the constructors that will be good.

Board members in 2004, passed an ambitious plan to ensure the entire collection is stored properly and to change the exhibits on display. We have the ideas, manpower, buildings and historical items - it's the money we lack.

At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.

Community funding plays a significant role in helping Prevention Minnesota achieve its ambitious goal of making Minnesota a healthier place to live, work, and play. This is yet another way we're able to get local communities involved in improving the health of Minnesotans.

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated.

It would be ambitious compared to other projects we've done.

The strong economy prompted ambitious yearly plans on the part of many companies, especially those in consumer goods manufacturing, ... In order to meet those goals, as well as to stay competitive in today's global 24-hour economy, several companies in the poll have added or plan to add third shifts, creating the need for even more workers.

The three partners in this ambitious venture share a determination to see that international guests are pleasantly overwhelmed by their experience at Baha Mar.

I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.

I've become good friends with Lena Dunham, and the thing I had in common with Lena when I was 24 is I was as ambitious as she was. What we don't have in common is that I was not as talented. My voice was not as clearly defined.

Technology conversions are major events for an organization -- encompassing multiple years and millions of dollars -- in this case $9 million. It's very ambitious and we wanted to do it right. It's a system-wide effort with a steadfast focus on our vision of providing even better patient outcomes by improving provider satisfaction, productivity and quality of care.

Russian energy supplies to Hungary in accordance with the current long-term contracts and ambitious joint projects in the oil and gas sector will be high on the agenda.

Prudential has had a successful year across all its businesses. We have ambitious growth plans in place and I am confident in the outlook for the group's future prospects.

People think it's a little ambitious but we feel we need to be prepared for the maximum and not get caught unprepared. We have committed to do this.

Our ambitious goal here is to build Xbox Live into an online entertainment network. The announcement of our deal with Epic Records is a big step in that direction.

After four years of successful collaboration, both parties feel strongly that the time is right for Wiley to acquire the remaining shares. This is an important step in our ambitious plans to grow Wiley's presence in India. The acquisition enables us to increase our investment in Indian publishing and to extend our sales and marketing reach for all Wiley products in this important and rapidly growing market.

Some tell us that Hawaii is half and half, half 'study nonstop' and half 'don't know what studying means.' Others, however, feel that 'while there's a handful of students who have ambitious career objectives are focused on studying, the typical student is focused mainly on the beach or going to the clubs.'

Commuter rail is a very ambitious endeavor. That is all the more reason we would want the Legislature to be involved in the process.

Coming off record earnings last year, we knew 1996 would be a tough act to follow, ... But despite a costly 29-day strike and the most ambitious multi-vehicle launch in Chrysler's history, our 1997 results were very good thanks to the dedication and hard work by our people.

As far as 'Birdsong' is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of the matter is that adaptations of long, ambitious books very seldom transfer well to the screen, and why would they?

As part of the E.U., my children can have the freedom and the opportunity to work and live across Europe; to be ambitious in the world's largest market; and to access so much of the history, the culture and the opportunity which is our common European heritage.

As one of the world's most ambitious IPv6 projects, all of China's major service providers and communications networks are participating in the CNGI project.

Alisa's fresh approach and energy have resulted in some of PRI's most ambitious initiatives, and we're delighted to see her take the helm.

Young people propose ambitious projects that may not work, so they don't get funded. Everybody else is proposing something where they've already done 90 percent of the work. It's one reason why progress is so incremental.

This is a really ambitious exercise and it was intended to stress our system so that we can find if there are weaknesses.

This is really carpet-bombing, super-saturation. It is a very ambitious program but sampling is the first step if you are looking to move things forward. And it is the single best investment you can make.

This exciting program inspires young people to continue their education and consider law-related careers. Our staff embarked on a very ambitious volunteer agenda this winter during one of our busiest periods because they understand there's no more enriching experience than to expose students, who may not otherwise have the opportunity, to a range of career opportunities within Corporate America. That was something I did not have first-hand experience with while in high school.

This ambitious site not only sets Exclusive Resorts apart from its competition, it introduces a sense of humanity through actual members who share their real-life experiences and considerations when it comes to vacations. The video vignettes tell stories people can relate to as they determine what is available to them through a luxury residence club and how it will suit their lifestyle.

They still have to have vision, the ability to undertake an ambitious project, to leverage resources, to manage financing. We thought it would be very useful for the students to look at a situation that was very different from the normal one.

Although the first season of ROME is just underway, we're affirming our support for this exciting and ambitious series by preparing for a second season now. I'm delighted that critics and subscribers share our enthusiasm for the show.

Although the first season of 'Rome' is just underway, we're affirming our support for this exciting and ambitious series by preparing for a second season now,

Ambitious youngsters are not going to let $600 influence their career choices.

The Youth Baseball Academy will serve as a sanctuary for kids interested not only in how the game is played but how the game can be a positive and productive part of their lives. The Compton academy is part of Major League Baseball's Urban Youth Initiative, which is an ambitious and important project that is designed to grow the game and to help inner city kids make better lives for themselves.

This policy represents a major modification of the ambitious Bush axis doctrine. From being implacably opposed two years ago to any form of concession or reward to a recidivist violator of agreements, the US is now prepared to contemplate compensation and diplomatic recognition. North Korea is even free to reprocess further plutonium at its Yongbyon facilities, at least until the next six-party talks in November.

The most ambitious goals in the history of the commonwealth is hiring minorities and women. We don't have a quota or goals for hiring (gays and lesbians) because they have a different lifestyle, so there is no discrimination in hiring because we don't ask.

It's just a given that women are working and are ambitious and have things they want to accomplish, and that stymies the amount of time they have to look around for a perfect guy.

It's a very ambitious redesign of creating a new view of technology.

It's a very ambitious project. I think it's going to be a great project for the neighborhood and for the city.

It's a very ambitious plan and a very good plan for the town. We need senior housing in town, and this has a very nice village feel to it.

It's a very ambitious deadline. The governor has given us direction to make it a priority.

It's a typically ambitious purchase for a high-profile Dubai organization to make.

It was a really ambitious machine that they attempted to build and it was effective in destroying our democracy for quite some time. That is, he and his associates brought themselves down because they attempted to abdicate a lot of the rules of our democracy.

It was a very ambitious trip. I have to say, to my surprise, all of our ambitions were fulfilled. All of the musicians we were going down there to record with, we recorded with?I've edited about nine or 10 songs down from the trip, and the stuff is really, really unusual and special. It far exceeds what I hoped for in sort of the refined qualities of it. I thought it might just sort of be rough stuff out in the woods. But ? some of this stuff is just amazingly fine, fine stuff.

It's an unnatural act for consenting (city and county officials) to work together. It's an ambitious plan, but what social wrongs in our society have been rectified without an ambitious plan?

It's a really ambitious show and that to me is really exciting, ... It's something that really feels like its own, while paying homage to other things.

It's very ambitious to say you're going to go into another area and immediately change it. Radio isn't very measurable right now, not because of a lack of interest, but because it's just a tough thing to do.

It's a pretty ambitious movie for what it is Hemingway is a great writer and a great character. If anybody can play Hemingway, Tony Hopkins can,

It's funny now because, at the time, I was criticized for it being so far away. Our actual research back then suggested it was a very ambitious time frame. We were very fortunate to be able to do it. It's not easy to turn over an entire team.

It's highly unlikely we would have the facility available at the beginning of the season. We're looking at November, but again, that's an ambitious schedule.

The Nigerian government is not sufficiently impacted to consider the conditions we have laid out before them and we perhaps need to be more ambitious in our attacks on oil facilities. Whether we will achieve this objective remains to be seen.

Still I would claim that this very ambitious reform proposal represents a major step for reform of the United Nations.

It's incredibly ambitious starting a television network and an in-house production company. I feel very busy, but, when I have a moment to step back and see the caliber and talent of people that have come together to do this, I feel so lucky. There's not a doubt in my mind that it's going to be successful.

It's ambitious ... it absolutely could get delayed.

Nokia may have to trim their forecasts as they seem ambitious in a weak economic environment.

The world, in terms of choices available to educated, ambitious workers and entrepreneurs, is way bigger than just the United States, Japan and Europe.

The US offer on domestic subsidies has thrown a challenge at the feet of the EU to come forward with a much more ambitious proposal on market access.

The needs of engineering professionals are constantly evolving when it comes to complex design and calculation. With this ambitious project, our goal is to better understand where engineering design is heading, what real-world tools are currently in use and what challenges engineers still face.

Slow down, you crazy child.You're so ambitious for a juvenile.

I'm after someone who is young and ambitious but who has enough experience. I do not want someone who hasn't coached before.

I'm utterly flabbergasted. What Sato did is just not on. It was a hopelessly ambitious move. It was reckless and I'm very annoyed.

I'm very ambitious and winning events like this HSBC Champions tournament is the sort of stuff I want to be doing,

In general, I tend to favor teachers over school boards in conflicts. Not that teachers are always right (I refer specifically to Mr. Manley in the fifth grade at Hamilton Elementary), but school boards are often used by the politically ambitious as a step up the ladder. The politically ambitious rarely become kindergarten teachers.

I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.

I'm really indebted to Johnny. He was my first musical hero. Were it not for him, things would have happened quite differently. I can envision myself as maybe a starving jazz musician. I never had any inclination towards fame or stardom. I just love music. Johnny was more ambitious and outgoing. I was the weird and quiet guy who played all the instruments.

I never saw him blow a sketch. But he was quite self-contained. It was hard to write collaboratively with him. You'd write a piece and he would change it to what he knew he could do brilliantly. He was modest, never ambitious or pushy, but he knew what he did well.

If you care about progress in market opening, you are going to have to have more ambitious compacts for sharing the downside costs as well as the benefits of open trade, ... As economists, we talk about how the benefits of lower prices are broadly shared. But the costs are very heavily concentrated.

In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments.

In short, Now is Google's attempt at becoming the real time interface to our lives - moving well beyond the siloed confines of 'search' and into the far more ambitious world of 'experience.' As in - every experience one has could well be lit by data delivered through Google Now.

If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.

I realize I'm an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part.

Clearly they are ambitious in their thinking, ... They are definitely, seriously interested.

Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in powerthey fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

But I'm not ambitious for myself, or for attention.

I'm ambitious for is to not get caught 'acting'. I want to really feel the role and not let people see the process, or to let them stand back and admire it, because I think that does finally get in the way.

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

(Chad and I) grew up making movies with my home camera. I got ambitious in high school and made this two-hour movie just on video. He came and helped me out with that.

By 2000, he had embarked on an ambitious series of figure paintings, usually captioned with an aphorism from poetry or philosophy, and charged with stark physical and metaphysical deliberations.

We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

Keep striving for your goals, and remember that it's good to be ambitious.

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old

The biggest problem is typically overly ambitious expectations combined with undercapitalization.

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I've never been ambitious.

Anybody can be ambitious.

There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.