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Modi’s goal is to lift India into the top 50 – a bold ambition given that the country currently sits at 142.Cutting bureaucratic red tape can help foster a culture of entrepreneurship and dynamism.
“Our group does not come to this problem with answers,” he conceded, only with a shared ambition to find them.
The absence of international resistance normally would have allowed Libya a clear field to realize its ambition.
The West’s Crisis of ConfidenceSTOCKHOLM – In an age defined by US President Donald Trump’s rage, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revisionism, and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s unbridled ambition, the international order is becoming increasingly disorderly, dysfunctional, and even dangerous.
Of course, the ambition today cannot be to recreate that world (or to reestablish an anachronistic Westphalian order of religious separation), but rather to devise a new order predicated on different assumptions.
In the spring of 2009, speaking in Prague, Obama advanced a bold ambition: a world without nuclear weapons.
No matter how often Chinese leaders repudiate any hegemonic ambition, wariness about China’s true intentions will remain.
Central Europeans are concerned less about their capacities for democratic government than about Russian power and ambition.
And his counterpart at the European Parliament, Klaus Welle, has shown no sign that he will relinquish his position or soften his ambition to win still greater powers for the parliament.
But, as usual when it comes to the United Nations, the deal that was struck was big on stated ambition, but far more modest when it comes to commitments to concrete action.
Undeterred by adversity, Peres kept pushing forward, driven by ambition and a sense of mission, and aided by his talents and creativity.
America leads the world in monetary-policy ambition.
Putin’s European Fifth ColumnBERKELEY – If the world should have learned one thing from the recent months of tensions between Russia and the West, it is that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strategic ambition and skill should never be underestimated.
Though Russian President Vladimir Putin’s immediate goal may have been limited to regaining control of Crimea and retaining some influence in Ukrainian affairs, his longer-term ambition is much bolder.
That ambition is not difficult to discern.
The Palestinians’ current unity government resulted from Saudi mediation, which came in response mainly to Iran’s ambition to increase its influence, not only in Iraq, but also in Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank.
When a country’s president delivers crazy speeches, denies the Holocaust, and does not hide his ambition to control the Middle East, who can guarantee that the threat is not serious?
The EU’s ambition to become a global player on an equal footing with existing and rising powers is neither understood by EU citizens nor viewed as credible in policy terms, as demonstrated by the reemergence of the United States as a decisive European player.
Company founder Jack Ma said that his ambition is to create a thriving “ecosystem” around the corporate headquarters in Hangzhou.
As the international community gears up for the next development agenda, the danger is that we let our ambition overpower our reason.
Contrary to what its leaders expect, China’s standing among most people in the Middle East – and its ambition to project soft power globally – will be gravely damaged.
Indeed, contemporary democracies are distinguished precisely by their ambition to combine respect for liberty and formal equality of rights with public policies that, as the Preamble of the 1946 French Constitution puts it, provide all citizens with "adequate living conditions."
Greater equality reinforces the ambition for still more equality.
But this is not yet the time for great ambition.
But, for national leaders in the EU whose last ambition is to have to deal with a new Jacques Delors, i.e., a man with ideas of his own, a cipher like Barroso is just the man for the job.
Changes like these are helping to translate development ambition into action.
Europe must do what it can to prevent that outcome, balancing ambition with realism, and courage with caution.
While the Paris climate agreement was hailed as a major success when it was concluded in December 2015, many signatories have displayed a remarkable lack of ambition in upholding their carbon-reduction commitments.
It was his ambition to subject the country to truly far-reaching social and political reforms that sealed his downfall and also brought about this new trial, which appears intended to silence him for good.
As Andreessen warned us, these companies, with their global ambition and reach, are eating the world economy.
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