Greater equality reinforces the ambition for still more equality.

Europe s Ambitious Muddling Through

Looking Up in 2014?

Too often we waste international cooperation on overly ambitious goals, ultimately producing weak results that are the lowest common denominator among major states.

Despite the summit s aspirational rhetoric, there is no consensus about how to achieve sustainable development, exemplified by disagreement over the potential of green growth.

But this ambition will be met only through policies that recognize the central role of women in agriculture and enable them to drive a green revolution on the continent.

But even more ambitious action is needed.

The two Argentinians behind this ambitious project are Malena and Martín.

We remain convinced that the MDGs, while ambitious, are achievable.

Of course not, he replied. You know very well that the actual ambition of my country is to achieve regional leadership.

When our ambition is bounded, it leads us to work joyfully.

This is a modest amount, but the initial ambition was also modest.

Russia needs America and the West in order to realize its ambitious initiative to establish international centers of uranium enrichment, and it needs Western markets, which are the largest consumers of Russia s gas and oil.

The PLO embodies Palestinian national aspirations for independence and statehood.

My father understood that the Chief Designers were ambitious and jealous people.

This is a bit like ambition and drive I'm going to do that. I'm going to work hard.

It weakens the document, which does not live up to our expectations and goals.

Like the other sponsors of the draft resolution, as well as those delegations participating in its negotiation, we are looking forward to the upcoming session of the United Nations Open ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea and to it fulfilling its ambitious agenda.

Under these circumstances, ambitious muddling through is both the most likely and the most promising scenario.

Rather, it is the sophisticated mouthpiece of the state of Qatar and its ambitious Emir, Hamad Al Thani.

There were aspirations for a free trade area by 2010.

That ambition is to revive militarism and to achieve overseas expansion militarily.

It rewards ambition, promotes office at any cost politics, and devalues merit.

We support the ambitious 90 day work programme he has submitted, which includes well established priorities.

No other country comes close to having either the capacity or the ambition.

The country prospered under his rule, but not peacefully, as his laws interfered with the ambition of powerful nobles.

COPENHAGEN At this century s start, leaders from every country agreed to pursue the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The ambition was to improve significantly the lot of the planet s most disadvantaged citizens before 2015.

I had by now observed that she spared no one, in particular snobs, ministers, insincere journalists and literary aspirants.

He shows us that, unfortunately, human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly ambitious.

France considers that this ambitious and pragmatic approach, which is open to all, offers a promising path for moving matters forward.

But that is not enough, because compassion, which activates the motor cortex, means that we aspire, we actually aspire to transform suffering.

Let us hope and let us be determined that, with the full backing of the United Nations and the world community, the peace process will be reactivated so that we can finally see the realization of the vision of a region in which two States, Israel and Palestine, face the future together in peace and cooperation.

Decent work also implies equality of opportunity and treatment as well as good prospects for both personal development and social inclusion.

In the senate, he opposed the young and ambitious Scipio Africanus, who wanted to carry the war to Africa.

These are leaders who, in addition to being highly capable, possess two important qualities, and they are humility and ambition.

The ambition was to improve significantly the lot of the planet s most disadvantaged citizens before 2015.

As for that first sphere of work, I think what Abraham Lincoln's life suggests is that fierce ambition is a good thing.

The Global Fund has been so successful that countries are submitting increasingly ambitious programs for consideration.

This is not to say that ambitious reform is not good, or is not warranted to sustain growth for the next decade.

India is not about to become a second China it lacks both the means and the ambition.

Thus, the EU s immensely ambitious program will not stop or even significantly impact global warming.

It returned as an animating and unifying force with the collapse of communism and the Balkan wars of a decade ago.

The combustible mix of autocratic ambition and misguided idealism took hold soon after the terrorist attacks in September 2001.

(d) While civil and political rights are very explicitly spelled out, economic, social and cultural rights are essentially vague or aspirational

An ambitious project to construct six new facilities would increase prison capacity by about 45 per cent by the end of 2007.