Europe s Ambitious Muddling Through

Looking Up in 2014?

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

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

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.

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

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

The PLO embodies Palestinian national aspirations for independence and statehood.

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

Sportsmanship (or sometimes sportspersonship) is an aspiration or ethos that a sport or activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect, and a sense of fellowship with one's competitors.

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.

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.

None of those six projects was in conflict with the ambitious global access control system referred to in paragraph 44 of section XI of resolution 59 276.

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

Greater equality reinforces the ambition for still more equality.

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.

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.

Indeed, governments propensity to target overly ambitious industries that were misaligned with available resources and skills helps to explain why their attempts to pick winners often resulted in picking losers.

There was a moment a year ago when Obama, with his enormous political capital, might have been able to achieve this ambitious agenda, and, building on these successes, go on to deal with America s other problems.

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.

Together with the rest of our European Union partners, we set the ambitious goal of increasing it to 0.56 per cent of our gross national income by the year 2010, with particular attention to and emphasis on 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.

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.

Tomorrow? We should all bear this in mind, for territorial ambition often goes hand in hand with the censor s creed.

He (or she) will have to stay in Iraq, engage in the Israel Palestine conflict on the side of Israel, confront a tougher Russia, deal with an ever more ambitious China, and face the challenge of global warming.

The government has for several years talked about a more harmonious society, and the plan describes ambitious programs for achieving this.