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But if this proves inadequate and a more ambitious approach is needed, the existence of a governance structure, or at least the beginnings of one, would form the basis of more elaborate institutional machinery.
This is not to say that ambitious reform is not good, or is not warranted to sustain growth for the next decade.
Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin has advanced an even more ambitious goal: “a common market stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific.”
In recent months, growth in military expenditure has accelerated rapidly, exceeding the authorities’ already ambitious plans.
The Kremlin’s goal was extremely ambitious, both by Russian and global standards.
My father understood that the Chief Designers were ambitious and jealous people.
The goal of eradicating malaria in our lifetime may sound ambitious, but it is achievable.
When this ambitious eradication program was launched in 1988, polio was paralyzing more than 1,000 children every day in 125 countries on five continents.
Suzanne Maloney, a former State Department official, expressed cautious optimism, stating that “it is early days and it will require a lot of testing, but Mr. Rouhani has been more ambitious than I would ever have hoped.”
Contrary to popular cliché, PiS’s victory in 2005 did not result from “reform fatigue,” since there were not many reforms implemented in 2000-2005 (except for an ambitious but partially blocked attempt at fiscal consolidation).
It is an ambitious program, and France will need Germany’s support if it is to succeed.
But Spahn is an ambitious political strategist with an eye on his electoral future, and he is no stranger to controversy.
This makes Spahn’s ambitious intervention especially noteworthy.
And, while ten years is too short for a definitive assessment of such an ambitious policy, we have undoubtedly covered considerable ground.
The agreement reached there must be ambitious, effective, and fair, offering rich countries a way to cut greenhouse-gas emissions while supporting poorer countries as they adapt to the adverse impact of climate change.
He also hopes to sign and implement the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which China initiated several years ago to counter the now-defunct Trans-Pacific Partnership, next year (an overly ambitious target unlikely to be achieved, owing to the complexities of multi-party trade deals).
Rudd’s recommendations are undoubtedly ambitious.
Since its launch, the SCO’s military exercises have become increasingly ambitious, growing from largely bi-lateral to inclusion of all members.
But its ideology suggests far more ambitious projects, starting with war against nearby Shia populations, who, as apostates, must be slaughtered.
A review of that propaganda recalls Hitler's Mein Kampf in the 1920s: an announcement of a far more ambitious set of objectives than the group's current circumstances would justify.
And ambitious political figures – from the leaders of the Brexit campaign in the United Kingdom to US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump – dismiss the facts altogether.
NASA quickly mobilized hundreds of thousands of engineers and other experts, and completed the moonshot in July 1969, meeting JFK’s remarkably ambitious timeline.
But the differences between Europe’s economies were never so dramatic as to form an insurmountable barrier to embarking upon the most ambitious project of all: adopting a common currency.
African policymakers need to implement ambitious measures not only to increase enrollment in schools and training programs, but also to improve the quality and availability of such programs, particularly in technical fields, throughout workers’ lives.
And, at the European level, we believe that an ambitious but not impossible goal should be added to the EU’s agenda: To provide every long-term unemployed person who is able, ready, and willing to work with the opportunity to do so.
By failing to state explicitly what individual countries are required to deliver, it allows leaders to support targets that seem ambitious, while pursuing mitigation efforts that are in reality insignificant.
Ambitious UN climate targets have not served as a prerequisite, but as a substitute for action.
Complex long-term policymaking works only if ambitious goals are in place.
It was a choice not to stop at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and to build the much more ambitious – and intrusive – WTO.
Twenty years ago, when I founded Rakuten as an ambitious Internet and e-commerce startup, we were just like most Japanese firms – small, and dominated by mostly male Japanese talent.
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