Through ambition and patronage he made his way into Rome's thriving Counter-Reformation art scene.
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Through fierce ambition, a huge fortune and plenty of offspring, his great-grandfather, Joseph P.
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Most of the time, however, though ambition burned through him like a fire, he had no interest in the office of the presidency.
He is but a man who, through a combination of ambition, talent, character and luck, became the central figure in the left's crisis of authority.
While Arsenal was left to dream of what might have been, Malaga realized its ambition of making it through to the last eight for the first time in its history.
Baron Pierre De Coubertin of France founded the International Olympic Committee in 1894 with the lofty ambition of reducing military conflict through sport.
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It'll go through the roof if he fulfills his ultimate ambition to make it to the Tour de France.
The market's chief executive, Massimo Capuano, has plenty of ambition to lure more, not least through a special second market for smaller enterprises.
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The project will facilitate policy dialogue and provide advice and technical support to the Government in its ambition to develop a National Education Vision through a comprehensive sector-wide approach.
Everything he says and does from his power base (which is appropriately down river from Westminster and on the other bank of the Thames) will be seen through the prism of his scarcely-concealed political ambition.
They recovered through Johnson and Hilfenhaus, who were rewarded for showing more ambition than any of the specialist batsmen.
While most of the spots that Google has sold to date through its dMarc subsidiary have been for remnant ads, Google's ambition is to expand into the sale of prime spots as well.
Although Brussels Eurocrats, depressed after the two ineffective commission presidencies of Jacques Santer and Romano Prodi, hanker after a man with the grand dreams and vaulting ambition of Jacques Delors, president in 1985-95, who pushed through the single market and plans for monetary union, a low-key but effective president may now be just what is needed.
Nevertheless, the main ambition is that AQUA-LAC establishes an international framework within its field, through its unquestionable scientific quality and relevance, which is also not only limited to scientists and professionals of the Latin America and the Caribbean's waters.
And while a young Liverpool player's ambition may be scoring in front of the Kop, a prospective young slugger making it through Boston's minor league system will probably have dreamt of hitting a home run over the "Green Monster" - the famous 37ft high left-field wall at Fenway.
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