To answer my opening question: Turkish bellicosity results primarily from one man's ambition and ego.

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Pakistan's ambition to be one of the hosts of the 2011 World Cup is surely in tatters.

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The British cabinet was briefed in September about data.gov.uk's ambition to be a one-stop-shop for data collected by the government.

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One of the obvious obstacles to Henri's ambition to become king was that France already has a sort of monarch, although he is called a president.

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The "number one grot spot" in a Kent town has been blamed on the council's "lack of ambition and vision".

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