The European Union has the most ambitious target of 30 percent reduction, while Japan recently announced a 25 percent reduction target.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

At previous summits, the United States set forth an ambitious and still unattained goal: forging a vast, hemisphere-wide free-trade zone.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

Republicans accuse the president of taking advantage of the economic crisis to push an overly ambitious and ill-advised domestic agenda.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

This includes most of the hardware on parade. On March 17,President Dmitri Medvedev unveiled an ambitious rearmament plan to modernize Russia's military.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

President Karzai says ambitious plans for a large, modern Afghan army are simply more than the country can afford for a long time.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

In his weekly address, President Obama says the reform bill is an ambitious effort to protect consumers from some of the financial industry's worst abuses.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

The cast includes Claire Danes as the ambitious young production assistantin the Mercury Theatre office;

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

He has criticized what he sees as the excessive American penchant for foreign military intervention and over-ambitious efforts to re-make other countries as western-style democracies.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

"I realize that there are those who say these plans are too ambitious to enact.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

Under his stewardship, the European Union has adopted an ambitious climate-change program that aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent or more by 2020.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

LCV Legislative director Tiernan Sittenfeld says this year's scorecard reflects an ambitious legislative agenda for the environment in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

The OIC undertaking is ambitious, it involves not just rebuilding, but in many cases building for the first time the infrastructure that could make Darfur self-sustaining.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

"Part of the legacy of the World Cup should be HIV and AIDS as per the national strategic plan, ambitious goal to halve infections by 50 percent."

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

She says the products still need polishing to be of export quality, but the women are ambitious and continue to display their own designs with pride and energy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

Yvo de Boer,the U.N.'s top climate change official, told delegates there was still time to break deadlocks, but he said countries that could be more ambitious should act now.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"Overall,this will be a meeting about reaffirming the status quo, reaffirming the progress that's being made on lots of different issues, but not one with a big ambitious agenda."

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

"And,what you see is a new economy breaking through what's breaking down: that heavy,industrialized, over-ambitious,over-productive, over-consumptive model, which is actually going to completely destroy our chancesof survival in the future.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

"This story structure was extremely ambitious in the fact that simultaneously you had four different states of the human subconscious that represented different dream states and each one affected the other."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

In China,Fuqiang Yang, the director of climate issues at the Beijing office of the World Wide Fund for Nature, says his country has already what he calls an ambitious target to cut carbon gasses.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Leaders of the South Africa's opposition political parties, labor unions and health-care professions praised President Zuma for launching an ambitious program to test 15 million South Africans for the HIV/AIDS virus by June of next year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

Mr.Ban said he is encouraged that negotiations are proceeding well in Copenhagen,and he hopes the summit can achieve, among other things, ambitious mitigation targets for developed countries and their commitments of financial support to assist developing countries adapt to the impact of global warming.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

The overseas trip is the first by Secretary of State since she fractured her elbow in a fall last month, and it includes an ambitious agenda in India, where she aims to solidify a strategic partnership begun with the 2005 U.S.-India nuclear cooperation accord.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

but the fact is they are intelligent, ambitious,motivated and to be just a pawn in the story of a whole bunch of men fighting it out,rolling around and getting down-and-dirty, while there you are just a vision in a tight cat-suit is just a boring thing."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19