And, in the end, was the overarching ambition -- no matter how understandable -- ultimately self-defeating?
Its long-term ambition is a top-five position in equity underwriting, but it is in no hurry.
Macbeth - a tale of ambition and murder - was the most popular.
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But many world leaders have criticised Washington's ambition -- including President Vladimir Putin who has warned it would mean ripping up the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) and risked a new arms race.
But his ambition-fueled long hours at work and the traffic-snarled commutes of Boston doomed his marriage.
The view taken by Clint Eastwood, directing from Iris Yamashita's exemplary screenplay, is elegiac, but -- and this is remarkable, given the nature of the production and the sweep of his ambition -- not at all didactic.
President Obama will have to consult union chiefs as he governs--unless he harbors no ambition to be re-elected four years from now.
"This tour has given me the type of problems any coach wants - strength in depth with competitive players who all have ambition - and players with quality too, " Jenkins added.
The beautiful, funny and riveting film is about honour, integrity and ambition -- the drama that underlies all the Games and makes the Olympics (and the film) worth watching again and again.
He said respect - a new buzzword for Labour's third term ambition to cut anti-social behaviour - was a "two-way street" and needed to be earned by adults.
Yet this summer saw the bankruptcy of Iridium, a satellite-communications project with a similarly long-term ambition.
General manager Hugh Fullerton-Smith said it was still the long-term ambition of the estate to introduce wolves, but into a much larger area.
And with the impressive Taarabt in their ranks - the former Tottenham midfielder ran Barnsley ragged - their ambition could come to fruition.
They see it as freeing them from the drudgery of the job-for-life and full-time employment contract that was frequently their parents' main ambition.
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Mrs Spelman said the government had expressed "disappointment" that the proposed CAP reforms - published on 12 October - were "lacking ambition".
Even as Ms Figueres was speaking in London, EU ministers were wrangling over the bloc's goals on climate change and renewable energy in Brussels - a meeting that ended without agreement on strengthening carbon-cutting ambition, essentially because just one of the 27 nations there, Poland, did not want to.
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".
Considering his longevity, it would be foolhardy to rule out the chance of the 40-year-old achieving this ambition.
Equally, though, he is fitting that cause within the context of an equally entrenched ambition - that of independence.
The idealism, ambition, self-assurance and total hubris at the heart of this salmon escapade are all hallmarks of the Chouinard executive style.
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Pakistan's ambition to co-host the 2011 World Cup is surely in tatters.
He told BBC Breakfast there was nothing wrong with having ambition - as long as it was realistic and in line with a person's abilities.
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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"Our big, bold ambition to re-imagine Windows as well as launch Surface and Windows Phone 8 has sparked growing enthusiasm with our customers and unprecedented opportunity and creativity with our partners and developers, " said chief executive Steve Ballmer.
The Clarets, founder members of the Football League, played with freedom and ambition - and should have doubled their lead after the break but Nick Montgomery blocked Joey Gudjonsson's hooked shot while Kyle Walker made a superb challenge with Robbie Blake poised to strike.
Then in 1982, a middle-aged cleric and rising parliamentarian, impressed by his ambition and zeal, recruited the 18-year-old Mr. Vahedi to join his staff.
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That almost in-bred ambition and winning mentality has brought him win four grand slam titles over the past two seasons -- notably claiming his first Wimbledon title in 2011 and his third Australian Open crown in the marathon six-hour final in Melbourne 12 months ago.
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His crusades against crime and quality-of-life annoyances served his larger ambition, which was to root out the assumptions that had built New York into a welfare city-state always at the edge of crisis.
The elements of loyalty, fanaticism, pleasure-seeking, competitiveness, ambition and struggle that are not allowed precise expression in non-sporting life... are stated precisely in sport.
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