There will be the usual debates in Washington about how best to prevent HIV from spreading, about whether a cure is a reasonable ambition, and how to support the millions of people with HIV around the world to live long and healthy lives.
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"In many other European countries, I see that there is a lot of ambition on how organic farming should develop, " he explained.
But the Christie Commission suggests a range of practical ideas as to how this over-arching ambition might be mandated within the public sector.
As for the individuals who choose the life of a regulator, it would be fun to hear the authors explain how those with such low ambition might credibly oversee some of the brightest financial minds in the world.
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It is a story about how the pressure of careers and ambition can crush young love.
Sure, we all want to put our best face forward, but how does a man keep his ambition from compromising his honor and integrity?
And, in the end, was the overarching ambition -- no matter how understandable -- ultimately self-defeating?
It will be interesting to see how Dell balances this independence with its ambition to build an even larger portfolio of technology to solve even more problems for its customers.
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But at the heart of the scandal lay vital questions about how London strikes the balance between its ambition to be a global financial centre and its duty of care to ordinary investors.
What is far more important is how they work with scarce resources, with ambition and with eagerness to learn from one other.
Have you gone about figuring how you will draw your own line, how you'll decide at what point ambition for office must give way to principle?
"The cowards who attacked Malala and her fellow students have shown time and again how little regard they have for human life and how low they can fall in their cruel ambition to impose their twisted ideology, " he said in a statement.
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Like many entrepreneurs, his ambition got ahead of his know-how.
Many outsiders underestimate just how much Wall Street firms prize a strong work ethic and clear ambition.
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How will you know when you've crossed the line and allowed ambition to go too far?
The former Paralympic athlete, Baroness Grey-Thompson, agreed that the Olympic Truce was a "wonderful ambition, " but she also wanted peers to think about how sport can change the world.
"At 90 you turn your attention rather more not to ambition, but what you should do with your life and how you should live it, for the little time you may have left, " she mused.
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