It has set itself ambitious targets for the future and is taking the lead in seeking a comprehensive global agreement, including a very significant effort on funding.

And we have ambitious hopes for its future.

We are convinced that these are ambitious but absolutely legitimate goals.

China s 12th Five Year Plan sets ambitious goals in this area.

An ambitious plan for a national high speed train system has been set forth.

As we gain experience and expertise we are mounting increasingly ambitious operations.

Given those differing cultural perceptions, the reform proposals were extremely ambitious.

During most of the union the navy was subjected to low funding, even though there were ambitious plans to expand it.

Indeed, all countries stood to gain from an ambitious Doha Round.

MADRID Next month, the world will achieve a milestone for global development efforts. The United Nations General Assembly will adopt the Sustainable Development Goals, an ambitious set of global objectives expected to improve the lives of millions of people by 2030.

Europe is pushing for ambitious targets but is having trouble with its own vested interests.

They must adopt and implement national strategies that are ambitious, proactive and even bold in combating poverty.

By any standards, the reform agenda is ambitious especially given a fragile and unaccommodating external environment.

With this in mind, the G 20 leaders set out an ambitious agenda for an inclusive and wide ranging response.

UNOPS refined its mission and vision by early 2004 and implemented an aggressive business acquisition initiative throughout the year.

In this context, in his report the Secretary General raised important questions and made interesting and far reaching observations and recommendations.

Today, the task at hand is very different to transform the technocratic framework of the producer model into the aspirational vision of a flourishing consumer society.

So I had an ambition to discover what could be understood from this uniquely human relationship between television programs and the human conscious.

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Ikeda, former minister of MITI, the Japanese government undertook an ambitious income doubling plan.

I encourage them to ensure that the country programmes they support are ambitious enough to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

It is also crucial that they devise strategies that are ambitious enough to meet the Goals and other important development objectives.

The next vital step in achieving this must be an agreement on ambitious reforms in the Doha round.

In recent years, African countries have undertaken a very ambitious agenda of reforms aimed at improving the economic, political and social conditions in the region.

The work which you are leading, Mr. President, in preparing substantial and ambitious outcomes for the September summit, is essential.

China is setting ambitious targets for reducing energy intensity and making massive investments in renewable energy.

Five years ago, in this very Hall, the assembled world leaders adopted an ambitious set of targets and goals to promote peace and prosperity.

It s an ambitious list, but its capstone is Goal 8, which calls for a global partnership for development.

But to describe a challenge as global is not to argue that the remedy is to be found only in an ambitious, formal, and universal treaty.

Ever since Copenhagen, a majority of the main greenhouse gas emitting countries have been setting out ambitious goals without hedging them with restrictive conditions.

The summit s hosts have set ambitious goals, reflected in the summit s theme BRICS and Africa a partnership for development, integration, and industrialization.

After this terrible crime, countries including in the Arab world were ready to embrace far reaching steps.

Their efforts are well documented on Facebook and Instagram, such as those of Mi Convive ( My Buddy ), a group with clear and ambitious goals

) The activities identified essentially concern the fields of media, culture and communication, with a view to launching an ambitious information and awareness raising campaign aimed at the international general public and decision makers.

The talks with the FARC evolved as regional détente was followed by an ambitious initiative to address the root causes of the Colombian conflict.

We know they are ambitious, but they constitute an attainable goal if there is political will on the part of the Member States coupled with making the required financial resources available.

Several countries, notably Uganda and Ethiopia, have declared ambitious plans for modernization of agriculture, while Kenya has indicated that it will use the Green Revolution for social transformation.

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Her delegation remained committed to the Doha Development Agenda and would remain at the forefront of efforts to ensure that the current trade negotiations produced ambitious results.

More recently, the European Parliament earlier this month approved ambitious new transparency rules for the extractive industry (including the forestry sector).

This process could eventually lead to more ambitious goals such as the establishment of a zone free of weapons of mass destruction.

In its resolution 59 221, the General Assembly called for concrete implementation of the commitment to address cotton issues ambitiously, expeditiously and specifically within the negotiations on agriculture.

Those are commendable efforts.

We can easily tally the costs of individual conservation efforts like saving the northern spotted owl.

(c) Implementing concretely the commitment to address cotton issues ambitiously, expeditiously and specifically within the agriculture negotiations, as provided for in annex A to the decision