The director's future ambition is to create a world class research library whose primary specialisation will be the civilisations of the eastern Mediterranean.

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Once these basics are in place, the only limit is women's ambition for the future.

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Mr Kennedy told the BBC that he had put the future of the party ahead of any personal ambition to be leader.

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But the Indian-born Bhatia, who lives in California, is now fired by an ambition to build the Silicon Valley of the future back in his homeland.

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Encourage ambition, but not at the expense of your financial future.

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But what the future is more likely to hold is benign neglect by America and declining military ambition in Europe.

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However, to avoid such latency issues, users will only be able to connect the console to a PC on the same home network - although Mr Huang said it was an ambition to allow them to go "beyond the house" with future devices.

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"My long-term ambition is to manage Celtic, but I don't see that in the near future, " he said.

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