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One tool of this ambition is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), under which the Sino-Russian exercises took place.
The General mocked the British ambition with a rendition of Edith Piaf’s song about an English aristocrat left out on the street, “Ne pleurez pas, Milord.”
The sweeping, Amazon-like ambition of Ethereum is to allow its users to employ the same general technology to negotiate and write “smart contracts” for just about anything.
For many developers, the goal of achieving a cheaper, more secure payments mechanism has supplanted Bitcoin’s ambition of replacing dollars.
That, however, is a completely different question from whether women who do want to become engineers and are qualified to study engineering should be denied the opportunity to achieve their ambition.
The European Union seems on the brink of collapse, and many non-Europeans view the old continent as a retired power that can still impress the world with its good manners, but not with nerve or ambition.
Against that backdrop, Saudi Arabia earlier this month seems to have used Iran’s growing ambition as a pretext to summon Hariri to Riyadh as if he were a misbehaved pupil.
The Right Stuff in Foreign PolicyCAMBRIDGE – Some critics complain that US President Barack Obama campaigned on inspirational rhetoric and an ambition to “bend the arc of history,” but then turned out to be a transactional and pragmatic leader once in office.
That is a Keynesian ambition, but can it be accomplished?
The event, whose theme is “Take Ambition to the Next Level,” aims to serve as a launchpad for accelerated action that will enable the world to meet the goals set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
Perhaps more important, a show of climate-action ambition from leaders across sectors would likely inspire national governments to increase their own NDCs ahead of this December’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland, where governments will finalize the implementation guidelines of the Paris agreement.
Its ultimate ambition is to provoke a clash of civilizations between the West and the Muslim world.
It rewards ambition, promotes office-at-any-cost politics, and devalues merit.
Le Pen’s ambition was always to “save” France, not to become Minister of Tourism.
Other countries that agreed as part of the Paris agreement to boost the ambition of their national climate plans by 2020 can learn from our experience in aiming for decarbonization, investing in natural assets, and recognizing the importance of the climate for a healthy population.
By mid-2015, we expect to have a clear picture of the progress being made and the challenges that remain in OECD countries and all major emerging economies – and to have advised these countries how they can realistically increase the ambition and cost-effectiveness of their policies.
If the Chinese reform their political system and improve their human rights record, it will not be the result of anything we in the West say or do, but because they realize that the absence of the rule of law jeopardizes their long-term ambition to be strong and respected.
The combustible mix of autocratic ambition and misguided idealism took hold soon after the terrorist attacks in September 2001.
Second, embrace the ambition of others.
The downfall of many business leaders in recent years has been greed and selfish ambition.
Leaders who overcome fear and frustration, embrace the ambition of others, and possess a strong character and sense of purpose are likely to build diverse teams whose members share an identity and common goals but still represent themselves authentically.
Putin has placed energy security at the top of the summit’s agenda, but that does not mask Russia’s ambition to dominate European markets by controlling the pipelines that carry its oil and gas, the refineries that process it, and the retail outlets that sell it.
The French worry that NATO’s global ambition, particularly in East Asia, could produce friction with China.
Yet return they did, though not intentionally, when statist and corporatist changes in the institutions of the economy curbed innovation and ambition, with the result that the workplace in Europe became once again as stultifying as it had been in the past.
It is this grim history that makes China’s current disregard for Deng Xiaoping’s maxim that China “disguise its ambition and hide its claws” so worrying for Asian leaders from New Delhi to Seoul and from Tokyo to Jakarta.
The Strategy nurtures the ambition of strategic autonomy for the EU, which is necessary to promote our citizens’ common interests, as well as our principles and values.
Compared to this earlier ambition, even the most daring of Macron’s proposals for eurozone integration is in fact a minor revision.
There has been the vast ambition of the single currency, with its intrinsic design flaws; the agony of the financial crisis and its aftermath; and the link between the two in the sovereign debt crisis.
In fact, Asian Americans remain a relatively rare sight in leadership positions, even in the corporate world, where one would assume that their education and ambition would be most beneficial.
Stop Subsidizing Climate ChangeLONDON – Next week, governments will gather in Warsaw, Poland, for a crucial round of climate negotiations, with both expectation and ambition running at an all-time low.
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