Many see it as a solid basis for the most ambitious reform agenda in the history of the United Nations.

The reform programme we have been considering has been the most ambitious and wide ranging since the formation of the United Nations.

It seems very ambitious.

Two months into that mandate, we can already see an energetic and ambitious frontal approach to the most pressing matters on the organization's agenda.

The poverty reduction strategy papers outline an ambitious agenda for poverty reduction, particularly when viewed against the severe capacity constraints facing most low income countries.

INFOCAP is comprehensive and ambitious.

The SDGs are extremely ambitious.

That's as ambitious as we are.

This Plenary Meeting has an ambitious agenda.

Germany, for example, is planning the world s most ambitious low carbon energy transition, based on energy conservation and renewables. South Korea has made green growth a central economic goal.

Well, particle physicists are nothing if not ambitious.

This is one of the more ambitious ones.

We would have liked a more ambitious result.

And we have ambitious hopes for its future.

Whatever the scenario that ends the calm, today s age of low volatility will seem like a distant dream to most of us and a forgotten nightmare for ambitious financial traders.

I mean, think about that. How grand. How ambitious.

The team from Taiwan was a little bit more ambitious.

At this defining moment in history, we must be ambitious.

We cannot afford to fail, and we must remain ambitious.

In other areas, however, we clearly must be more ambitious.

We remain convinced that the MDGs, while ambitious, are achievable.

As the most heavily invested, they have the most experience using cheap debt to create value. But, with commodity prices beginning to drop, even the most bullish companies are reassessing ambitious investment plans a trend reflected in the Brazilian mining giant Vale s recent decision to put its investment in Guinea on hold.

Development and poverty eradication remain one of the most important pillars of the United Nations, and we must not be found lacking in energy in realizing those ambitious Goals when we reach 2015.

These are leaders who are highly ambitious for the greater good.

We are convinced that these are ambitious but absolutely legitimate goals.

Given those differing cultural perceptions, the reform proposals were extremely ambitious.

After all, we were ambitious and set the bar very high.

Indeed, all countries stood to gain from an ambitious Doha Round.

Development was broader and more ambitious than the Millennium Development Goals.

Most obviously, the European Central Bank announced an ambitious program of asset purchases quantitative easing in late January. That prospect rapidly drove down the euro s exchange rate, enhancing the international competitiveness of European goods.

The Government had made a concerted effort to ensure that the poor benefited most from the country's economic growth, with significant achievements in improving governance at the national level and an ambitious decentralization process.

I'm someone ambitious someone who knows very well what he is after.

I'm someone ambitious someone who knows very well what she is after.

The endeavor was bound to be ambitious. In the eyes of most observers, to reach the leaders goal of break ing the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns required centralizing authority for bank resolution and rescue.

High performing systems also share clear and ambitious standards across the entire spectrum.

The selection of five major priority areas for development constituted an ambitious agenda.

Inadequate enforcement mechanisms and overly ambitious targets are among the reasons for failure.

Where we do need to be ambitious is in reforming the Secretariat's functioning.

I regret that the Secretary General's ambitious vision has not yet been fully realized.

In contrast, when it comes to political reform, we should not be so ambitious.

And I said, Well, you know, that might be a bit ambitious for our budget.

It's a very ambitious goal but we believe it can be achieved with political will.

As from 1 July 2006, France would embark upon an innovative, ambitious development assistance project.

Sometimes leaders think that vision can solve most of their problems, but the wrong vision or an overly ambitious vision can do damage. George H.W. Bush was faulted (and faulted himself) for not having what he called the vision thing.

Men are restless, men are ambitious, men are compulsively mobile, and they all want a certificate.