With the dream of building a lucrative overseas colony for Scotland, the Company of Scotland invested in the Darien scheme, an ambitious plan devised by William Paterson to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama in the hope of establishing trade with the Far East.

Other controversial schemes proposed by his government were a massive freeway system that was planned to be driven through the hearts of historic inner-city suburbs including Glebe and Newtown and an equally ambitious scheme of ' slum clearance ' that would have brought about the wholescale destruction of the historic areas of Woolloomooloo and The Rocks.

Fell's scheme was ambitious.

The scheme was abandoned as being too ambitious and reverted to a bridge concept.

In 2011 Sussex Yachts Ltd initiated an ambitious scheme to regenerate the East Quay with their yacht refit business opening Newhaven Boatyard the largest marine refit facility in the South East. Sussex Yachts Ltd The project expanded into commercial vessel maintenance and refit in 2012.

Grant had personally declined to listen to Gould's ambitious plan to corner the gold market, since the scheme was not announced publicly, but he could not be trusted.

The Scots ' original aim of emulating the East India Company by breaking into the lucrative trading areas of the Indies and Africa was forgotten and the highly ambitious Darien scheme was adopted by the company.

The expedition failed to carry out its original ambitious scheme.

In the late 18th century an ambitious scheme was proposed by Willey Reveley to straighten the Thames between Wapping and Woolwich Reach by cutting a new channel across the Rotherhithe, Isle of Dogs and Greenwich peninsulas.

Although Doria was ambitious and harsh, he was a patriot and successfully opposed Emperor Charles's repeated attempts to have a citadel built in Genoa and garrisoned by Spaniards ; neither blandishments nor threats could win him over to the scheme.

In what would have been a far more ambitious scheme, the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway ( the forerunner of the Great Central ), proposed a line from Doncaster to Raunds in an early version of its bid to build a trunk line to the capital.

Charles then assisted Patrick on the firm's first venture into Wales, a massive commission to construct docks and a railway at Port Talbot, followed by an equally ambitious scheme to expand the port of Seaham, officially opened in 1905.

In 1894, he was joined by his brother Charles and together they worked on a major commission to construct docks and a railway at Port Talbot, followed by an equally ambitious scheme to expand the port of Seaham, officially opened in 1905.

The costs of the huge and ambitious scheme, and the time it would take to complete, soon escalated out of control, and a subsequent enquiry blamed Sir George ( the project became known as Lloyd ’ s Folly, after Sir George Lloyd, then governor of Bombay ).

After some months Prime Kang embarks on an ambitious scheme ( the Kang War ) to conquer the Earth, this time aided by a son, Marcus, who now uses the alias of the Scarlet Centurion.

Pedway was an ambitious, but ultimately unfulfilled, scheme to improve traffic flow in the City of London by means of the construction of a network of elevated pedestrian walkways.

The BTC was a part of a highly ambitious scheme to create a publicly owned, centrally planned, integrated transport system.

In the new 2009 season, Pink launched its most ambitious programming scheme ever with shows that are likely to capture new viewer interest ( e. g., The Farm ) and a continuation of previously successful programs to hold its audience ( e. g., Moment of the Truth ).

She meets Saint Fond, a 50-year-old multi-millionaire who commits incest with his daughter, murders his father, tortures young girls to death on a daily basis and even plots an ambitious scheme to provoke a famine that will wipe out half the population of France.

As 1918 wore on a more ambitious scheme matured, to send the CMBs in over the shallow coastal waters to attack the German fleet at its anchorage.

The HLF questioned the long-term sustainability of such an ambitious scheme, particularly in consideration of its funding.

The Ultra-Humanite's most ambitious scheme occurs in the 2002 " Stealing Thunder " story arc from JSA # 32-37, where, in the aged body of Johnny Thunder, he deceives Jakeem Thunder into handing over his magical pen.

* ( Richard Rogers Partnership Masterplan section contains models and drawings of Rogers ' ambitious 1994 scheme to overhaul the Southbank Centre's Waterloo site )

Part of this ambitious scheme involved diverting the Ormskirk and Southport electric services away from Exchange and into a new tunnel running North to South under Liverpool city centre.

The chief painter of the ambitious internal decoration was Livio Agresti from Forlì.

In the interior, the ambitious decoration with colored marbles overwhelms the attempts at novel design ( Wittkower, R. p. 126 ).

Probably his most ambitious work is the deatched fresco decoration of the vault of the church of Santa Caterina della Stelletta, Spoleto, which is now in the Museum of Fine Arts ( Budapest ).

A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.

Adele, like Amy, the youngest of the Marches, was the rebellious, mischievous, rather calculating and ambitious one.

He had not because he was both poor and ambitious.

A year ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility of the Presidency, Theodore H. White had already compiled masses of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960.

What she felt was a bone-deep loss with a sense of waste to it, not so much sorrow for handsome, ambitious Bobbie, but for the lost years that had been brought into high relief by his death.

It was then that, as an ambitious 22-year-old, Lincoln decided to seek a better life and struck out on his own.

* Scullard: A critical view of Agrippina, suggesting she was ambitious and unscrupulous and a depraved sexual psychopath.

In the 880s, at the same time that he was " cajoling and threatening " his nobles to build and man the burhs, Alfred, perhaps inspired by the example of Charlemagne almost a century before, undertook an equally ambitious effort to revive learning.

A passionate fighting-man ( he fought twenty-nine battles against Christian or Moor ), he was married ( when well over 30 years and a habitual bachelor ) in 1109 to the ambitious Queen Urraca of León, widow of Raymond of Burgundy, a passionate woman unsuited for a subordinate role.

The 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia remarks that " Undeniably secular and ambitious, his moral life was not above reproach, and his unscrupulous methods in no wise accorded with the requirements of his high office ... the heinous crimes of which his opponents in the council accused him were certainly gravely exaggerated.

More ambitious was the Logic Theory Machine, a deduction system for the propositional logic of the Principia Mathematica, developed by Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon and J. C. Shaw.

When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

The filming of the series was highly ambitious, with a large cast and much location shooting.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

The French Directory agreed with Bonaparte's plans, although a major factor in their decision was a desire to see the politically ambitious Bonaparte and the fiercely loyal veterans of his Italian campaigns as far from France as possible.

The architect Sir John James Burnet was petitioned to put forward ambitious long-term plans to extend the building on all three sides.

The first to use pound locks was the Briare Canal connecting the Loire and Seine ( 1642 ), followed by the more ambitious Canal du Midi ( 1683 ) connecting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.

It is particularly relevant for the social class to which most of Confucius ' students belonged, because the only way for an ambitious young scholar to make his way in the Confucian Chinese world was to enter a ruler's civil service.

He was also an ambitious builder, constructing many new roads, aqueducts, and canals across the Empire.

As it became obvious his ambitious enterprise was failing, he became understandably desperate to cover its costs.

These Are The Men ( 1943 ) was a more ambitious piece where Thomas ' verse accompanies Leni Riefenstahl's footage of an early Nuremberg rally.

The clearest symbol of the whole effort was the ambitious Canary Wharf project that constructed Britain's tallest building and established a second major financial centre in London.

It was far better television than it had to be ; during an era of formulaic domestic sitcoms and wacky comedies, it was a stylistically ambitious show, with a distinctive visual style, absurdist sense of humour and unusual story structure.