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.

Disapproval of the meeting was based largely on the belief that the timing could hardly be worse.

One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.

Due to the timing of interrupts it was possible to disable either the top 100 or bottom 156 lines of the display with palette changes.

This might have been fortunate timing for Abd al-Rahman, since he was still getting a solid foothold in al-Andalus.

The feigned retreat, next to unknown in Western Europe at that time — it was a traditionally eastern tactic — required both extraordinary discipline on the part of the troops and exact timing on the part of their commander.

However, the timing of the availability of DECT, in the mid-1990s, was too early to find wide application for wireless data outside niche industrial applications.

Each contained 18 bits, but the first bit was unavailable due to timing restrictions, so only 17 bits were used.

Waiting for the ball was Pelé, who had arrived at speed and with perfect timing.

More important than Hurst's numbers was his sense of timing: not only did he score the first ( in the home opener against Portland ) and the last ( in the playoffs against Vancouver ) goals of the season, 5 of his 8 goals were game-winners.

As a result of these discoveries, Galileo was able to develop a method of determining longitude based on the timing of the orbits of the Galilean moons.

Until 2000 the precision of the GPS signal available to non-U. S .- military users was deliberately severely limited by a timing pulse distortion process known as selective availability.

European Union member states decided it was important to have a satellite-based positioning and timing infrastructure that the US could not easily turn off in times of political conflict.

When Galileo was viewed as a private-sector development with public-sector financial participation, European Commission program managers sought Chinese participation in pursuit of Chinese cash in the short term and privileged access to China ’ s market for positioning and timing applications in the longer term.

Each data system bus ( aka string ) was composed of the same functional elements, consisting of multiplexers ( MUX ), high-level modules ( HLM ), low-level modules ( LLM ), power converters ( PC ), bulk memory ( BUM ), data management subsystem bulk memory ( DBUM ), timing chains ( TC ), phase locked loops ( PLL ), Golay coders ( GC ), hardware command decoders ( HCD ) and critical controllers ( CRC ).

The timing of Henry's case was very unfortunate ; it was 1527 and the Pope had been taken prisoner by the emperor Charles V, Catherine's nephew and the most powerful man in Europe, for siding with his archenemy Francis I of France.

Weizsäcker had no moral objections to the idea of destroying Czechoslovakia ; he was only opposed to the timing of the attack.

Rather than setting up a timing system, the kludge was to make the internal wires extra-long, increasing the distance and thus increasing the time the electrical signal took to reach its destination.

In Japan he was influenced by kendo, incorporating some ideas about distancing and timing into his style.

The critics were more provocative than those of the previous generation, and much of the bad reception was based on Coleridge's timing of publication and his own political views, much of which contrasted with those of the critics, than actual content.

That timing was fortunate ; the 1956 overthrow of Stalinism in Poland lifted strict Communist cultural censorship and opened the door to a wave of creativity .< ref name =" LOC1 ">

The timing uncertainty of finalization of the take over was the reason Koenigsegg stated for leaving the deal.

USB was developed for use with peripherals such as mice and keyboards, which have no specific timing needs, but FireWire was created for use with multimedia applications.

Regarding the timing of German rapprochement, many historians agree that the dismissal of Litvinov, whose Jewish ethnicity was viewed unfavorably by Nazi Germany, removed an obstacle to negotiations with Germany.