"The Foreign Office have not traditionally been incredibly brave or ambitious in negotiations and we certainly need to be braver in sticking to our corner" she told presenter Evan Davis.
However, from an institutional perspective there may also be a significant social cost to proceeding with too much vigor in cases that are questionable or overly ambitious.
The government is not blaming FirstGroup, but implicit in the minister's statement is that FirstGroup's risk projections were either over-ambitious or just plain wrong.
However, the fact that immigrants eventually surpass their native-born counterparts also suggests that migration is a selective process, bringing the more ambitious or venturesome elements of a population.
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They were meant as research for exotic genre scenes or for the backgrounds of ambitious paintings of episodes from mythology or Roman history all idealized in the finished work.
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Might some ambitious politician or a pack of plaintiff attorneys go after financial institutions?
The rest were either in gilded retirement, or were young and ambitious and wanted to be in national politics.
Regardless of the success or failure of these ambitious anti-nuclear energy agendas, the age of atomic power is anything but over.
Gates has traditionally used the speech as a pulpit for predicting the techno-future or for unveiling an ambitious new product line from Microsoft.
Add in the enthusiasm of foreign banks to lend either to Korean banks or directly to overly ambitious chaebol and a perfect credit storm was in the works.
After assembling aircraft pretty much the same way for more than 40 years, Boeings management finally figured out they had to change or fail to fulfill ambitious production schedules for orders on the books.
So if the C919 is to be commercially viable, COMAC needs to get the plane up in the air on or close to its ambitious schedule while the market for medium-range aircraft remains hot.
If Mr Barak can bring home the draft peace agreement that eluded him and Yasser Arafat at Camp David, or even a less ambitious accord, providing Palestinian statehood but leaving the issues of Jerusalem and the refugees for further negotiation, the election would become, in effect, the referendum on peace that he promised.
Women "internalize" the "pressure" of "society's expectations" to settle for less ambitious career paths or no career path at all, she writes.
But determining whether a business school's mission is ambitious enough, or whether it fulfills that mission, is far from scientific, some deans say.
Changing internships from the exposure-audition model to a minimum-wage model may serve labor activists, but it won't serve ambitious college students or the companies seeking them.
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As China and India awaken to climate change, few of their leaders and thinkers seem to expect a more solid solution: an ambitious replacement, or refreshment, of the Kyoto protocol.
Travelling to the badlands of Arizona or Wyoming is a tad ambitious even for a long weekend, but there is a corner of Europe with impeccable cinematic credentials as a stand-in for the Wild West.
Or should it seek a more ambitious revision that will take years?
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He would have endorsed any regime or client that made it possible to carry out artistically ambitious projects on a monumental scale for a vision unhampered by restrictions of money, existing conditions or social concerns.
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Instead, ministers will have to choose between finishing a less ambitious agenda on time, or extending the timetable.
Each time, I had ambitious goals of 15 pounds or more in two to three months, and each time I really restricted my caloric intake.
Others are more ambitious, requiring new construction or even an extensive rebuilding of city infrastructure consider what is needed to add a second set of pipes for a water-reuse system.
Sancerre's popularity has also meant that its more ambitious producers can be overlooked or underrated their wines may be considered less seriously than their counterparts in a more prestigious region such as Burgundy.
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Many of the semi-finalists' redesigns are as simple as adding multitouch gestures or bending the traditionally square playing field into a more circular court, but a few ambitious developers mixed it up with 3D playing fields, anthropomorphic paddles or augmented reality multiplayer.
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Nor is anyone else who is more ambitious than average, works harder or just happens to be luckier.
The Europeans have long discussed their desire to include Turkmenistan in ambitious projects like the Nabucco pipeline or Trans-Caspian.
Even though I was as ambitious as the rest, overt ambition or assertiveness was interpreted as aggressiveness.
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It's being trumpeted as the league's greatest global-marketing initiative ever, far more ambitious than the scheduled game in Tokyo or Monterrey, Mexico.
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