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We must, however, reach several objectives and give clear signs of a true collective ambition.
Does it mean that Trump will consent to Putin’s ambition to dominate Ukraine?
Lurking behind China’s ambition in space is the spirit of the Cold War, which continues to permeate the inner circles of the military high command, whose adversary is unmistakably the United States.
Intellectual Property and Economic DevelopmentWASHINGTON, DC – In his recent State of the Union address, US President Barack Obama reiterated his ambition to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed trade agreement among the US and 11 Pacific countries.
It was the crumbling Kuomintang that in 1947 drew and promulgated the original “11-dash line” map – subsequently reduced to nine dashes by Mao Zedong, in a fraternal gesture to Vietnam – in a futile effort to rally the population to its side via imperial ambition.
We must now move with ambition that matches this historic deal – one supported by nearly 200 countries.
The same is true of governments: they, too, can lose the hunger and ambition of youth and allow themselves to become complacent.
Without a sharp rise in global ambition for emissions reductions by 2020, we will be unable to save the world’s most vulnerable countries.
In the meantime, we must urgently increase the ambition of our climate commitments.
We need to build an arc of ambition across these events that can, in the words of our friend Tony de Brum, the late Marshallese foreign minister and untiring climate warrior at the Paris conference, deliver a pathway to survival for the most vulnerable.
As more countries signal their ability to increase the ambition of their commitments, still more will follow.
Observers may disagree about whether German leaders’ stance provides a welcome sign of reliability or reflects a lamentable lack of diplomatic ambition.
Upholding the Asian OrderNEW DELHI – China’s ambition to reshape the Asian order is no secret.
But this ambition, however legitimate, looks more presumptuous and unrealistic every day, particularly given the choices that Europe just made in naming its new “President” – Belgium’s Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy – and “Foreign Minister” – the never been elected to anything Lady Catherine Ashton from Britain.
That is why it has fought to limit the rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees – an ambition that was included, thanks to the forum’s efforts, in the Paris agreement.
The question is whether it is an ambition too far.
“You know very well that the actual ambition of my country is to achieve regional leadership.
New York City’s High Line, an aerial greenway built from a converted rail bed that opened in June 2009, was one of the first projects to capture this new ambition in urban planning.
And, in recent years, the Chinese leadership has led a concerted effort to fulfill that ambition, especially by internationalizing China’s currency.
That dark ambition has gained urgency, because the country is due to hold its first democratic presidential election since the transition began in 2011.
Third, while rising powers’ ambition for more space and influence is a given, it is not remotely inevitable that this quest must take a military form.
Bogu killed Heywood, her lover and business partner, and many other innocent people died as a result of Bo’s ambition.
But that hardly makes the Middle East unique: Most borders around the world owe their legacy less to thoughtful design or popular choice than to some mixture of violence, ambition, geography, and chance.
With the abolition of the estate tax, the Republicans would finally realize their long-held ambition of creating a dynastic plutocracy – a far cry from the “equality of opportunity” maxim the party once trumpeted.
The obstacles hindering its success included Russia’s inability or refusal to transform itself in line with the European model, as well as Europe’s lack of the ambition and imagination needed to launch a new project for the genuine unification of the whole of Europe.
In recent decades, remarkable strides have been made toward realizing that ambition worldwide.
It is also well known that European productivity is falling behind, too, probably due to the same factors that make Europe seem dull, cautious, and lacking in ambition when compared with many of its competitors.
Indeed, European Union leaders know better than to announce such an ambition, which would require a new treaty – no one is prepared to open up that can of worms.
There can no longer be any reasonable doubt that Iran’s ambition is to obtain nuclear weapons capability.
It is precisely this ambition that sets Iran apart from North Korea: whereas North Korea seeks nuclear weapons capability in order to entrench its own isolation, Iran is aiming for regional dominance and more.
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