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By doing so, it split the group and may well have thwarted ASEAN’s ambition to transform itself into a European Union-like regional bloc by the end of 2015.
At any rate, one should not write off prematurely a politician of such vision and ambition.
This is the ultimate ambition of the sustainable development agenda that will be adopted at the United Nations in September.
In the 1970’s, the average Italian working-class family’s major ambition for its children was for them to study, go to university, and become a doctor or a lawyer.
And today, the ambition of many working-class Italian mothers is to see their daughters become a successful scantily clad “velina” who, in turn, manages to hit the gossip columns by flirting with the latest muscleman-turned-TV heartthrob or some budding young football player.
Given Russia’s growing alienation from its remaining partners, especially Belarus and Kazakhstan, which are determined to preserve their neutrality in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the EEU currently seems unlikely to fulfill Putin’s ambition of serving as a credible rival to the EU.
But Nahda’s ambition to win over – and, ultimately, stably occupy – the mainstream of Tunisia’s democratic politics requires nothing less.
And, despite its economic and political dysfunction, Turkey managed to maintain a positive image, owing in part to its ambition to join the European Union.
The ambition was to improve significantly the lot of the planet’s most disadvantaged citizens before 2015.
The MDGs comprised eight sweeping statements of ambition: the world decided to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality rates; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; and develop a global partnership for development.
As a result of this profound contradiction between ambition and mandate, the UN often seems to impede the advance of human-rights goals as much as it realizes them.
In August, one executive, Véronique Laury, said that her professional ambition is to have “a positive impact in the wider world.”
It requires ambition, purpose and thrust.
The ambition must be to turn Brussels into a machine for sheltering labor from the market economy.
Chinese hegemonic ambition runs counter to India’s strategic interests as well – reason enough for Modi’s eagerness to strengthen his country’s relations with its neighbors as well as with the US.
State- and city-level climate action is sweeping across the US, increasing in scale and ambition.
And, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel setting conditions for the eurozone, France’s ambition to dominate European policy has been thwarted.
India is not about to become a second China – it lacks both the means and the ambition.
Reserve status for the SDR is a long-held IMF ambition, though the idea has never gotten much traction.
Among all university graduates, engineers (and, to a lesser extent, doctors) seem the most frustrated by the lack of opportunities, perhaps reflecting the ambition and sacrifice required to earn such a high-level degree.
It strikes the ideal balance between realism and ambition, recognizing the EU’s limitations and pinpointing the improvements that are needed.
This month, thousands gathered for the UN’s climate change conference in Bonn, Germany, to ratchet up global ambition in the fight against climate change.
It seems that fear of the US rather than Israel has been the main reason for Iran’s nuclear ambition.
The central ambition is bold: the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030.
The ambition was to complete the negotiations on “one tank of gas.”
We should all bear this in mind, for territorial ambition often goes hand in hand with the censor’s creed.
The regime’s true ambition is to invent an alternative to Western democracy: an enlightened despotism under the tutelage of a meritocratic Communist Party.
The Cold War greatly damaged the globalizing ambition of liberal internationalism, a creed closely associated with the geopolitical West, and especially with the US and the UK.
Ukraine has formed a regional association with Georgia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Moldova, and its ambition is to play the role of a center of democracy and economic freedom in this huge area.
Popularity is not the same thing as real political support, especially if your ambition is to rock the boat.
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