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As one observer put it, “Rice’s ambition is not just to be a gardener – she wants to be a landscape architect.”
Indeed, in America the qualities that lead people to become immigrants – initiative, ambition, risk-taking – are lionized.
Most notably, Russia’s perceived ambition of recapturing its Soviet-era influence is challenging the rules-based order that was established after World War II, and a surge in religious and political extremism is threatening democratic and liberal values.
Peace was at the heart of the ambition of Europe’s founding fathers.
Indeed, today no European political figure of global stature offers an ambition that resonates.
Of course, even if Macron does guide an economic turnaround, France will have neither the means nor the ambition to supplant the US on the world stage.
But Macron does want France to exercise more influence over the international system – an ambition that is underscored by the way he addresses Putin and Trump.
And yet, when it comes to shale-gas ambition, Argentina is hardly alone.
The argument to India was essentially this: You need us to realize your ambition to become a major world power, and we share a concern over China’s rise and Islamist terrorism, so let’s work together.
My ambition is the creation of a “new French model” that places sustainable solidarity at its center, with all citizens aware of what they owe everyone else.
Americans, with their ethos of self-help, initiative, ambition, and competition, think it breeds risk-averse Peter Pans unwilling to strike out on their own.
What is clear is that any ambition to define a common European energy and security policy toward Russia is slowly disappearing.
The treaties mark an attempt to balance action and ambition in a context of economic crisis, fiscal consolidation, large-scale defense transformations, increasing interdependencies, and global threats – from terrorism and nuclear proliferation to climate change, resource scarcity, and epidemics – that are impossible to tackle unilaterally.
Yet funding headwinds have not dampened ECW’s ambition under its new director, Yasmine Sherif.
More fundamentally, the agenda lacks ambition and direction.
One of these is our track record, which supports our ambition to be a “proactive contributor to peace.”
Equally important was the fact that all the countries concerned expressed an ambition to move closer to the EU.
Why China Can Grow According to PlanBEIJING – China’s recently finalized 13th five-year plan maps out its economic strategy and ambition for the 2016-2020 period.
Of course, one can say that the Islamic State’s dream of restoring a Sunni caliphate is as anachronistic as Putin’s neo-imperial ambition.
Commentary examining growth in Chinese private consumption as a share of GDP, or potential changes to the hukou system, will be far more edifying than that devoted to the personality and ambition of Xi Jinping.
In fact, while the Saakashvili government’s clampdown showed the structural weaknesses of Georgia’s democracy, the aftermath has also shown that Georgia’s Western ambition remains intact, because the government understands that it cannot afford any long-term deviation from democratic norms.
His ambition should have been to tie Russia’s future to that of Europe.
It is therefore vital that negotiators in Paris work together to determine how to boost policy ambition.
China’s non-violent terrestrial aggression has garnered less opposition than its blue-water ambition, which has been challenged by the United States and under international law (albeit with little effect).
They perceive Americans and Europeans as being obsessed with money and material ambition, and they seem ready to accept some stagnation as the price of remaining truly Japanese.
He was simply a loser in a contest with those who felt threatened by his ambition and ruthlessness.
Michael Gove, a leading Brexiteer and now Secretary of State for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, has described Brexit as “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reform how we care for our land, our rivers and our seas, how we recast our ambition for our country’s environment and the planet.”
This is not a new ambition; it has been on the WTO’s agenda for many years, and it has been included in other international sustainable development declarations.
At long last, Gordon Brown is taking over from Tony Blair as Britain’s Prime Minister, thus attaining his life-long ambition, as if by right.
Moreover, a German nuclear ambition might jeopardize the delicate balance of power in Europe – including between Germany and France, for example – with incalculable consequences for the long-term cohesion of the European Union.
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