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.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The only thing that had ever come between them was that worthless, selfish sister of his.

Altruism, the experiment suggested, was not a superior moral faculty that suppresses basic selfish urges but rather was basic to the brain, hard-wired and pleasurable.

* Legalism, which maintained that human nature was incorrigibly selfish ; accordingly, the only way to preserve the social order was to impose discipline from above, and to see to a strict enforcement of laws.

He was indicted under the Sedition Act for an essay he had written in the Vermont Journal accusing the administration of " ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation, and selfish avarice ".

The rabbis recognize a positive value to the yetzer hara: one tradition identifies it with the observation on the last day of creation that God's accomplishment was " very good " ( God's work on the preceding days was just described as " good ") and explain that without the yetzer ha ' ra there would be no marriage, children, commerce or other fruits of human labor ; the implication is that yetzer ha ' tov and yetzer ha ' ra are best understood not as moral categories of good and evil but as selfless versus selfish orientations, either of which used rightly can serve God's will.

Another reason for the efforts ' failures was the Gracchi's idealism ; they were deaf to the baser notes of human nature and failed to recognize how corrupt and selfish all sections of Roman society had become.

" When Taji kills the old priest holding Yillah captive, he states " remorse smote me hard ; and like lightning I asked myself whether the death deed I had done was sprung of virtuous motive, the rescuing of a captive from thrall, or whether beneath the pretense I had engaged in this fatal affray for some other selfish purpose, the companionship of a beautiful maid.

Like his earlier raids, Raynald's expedition is usually seen as selfish and ultimately fatal for Jerusalem, but according to Bernard Hamilton it was actually shrewd strategy, meant to damage Saladin's prestige and reputation.

In Buddhism, Ai was seen as capable of being either selfish or selfless, the latter being a key element towards enlightenment.

A 2003 measurement study of Internet routes found that, between pairs of neighboring ISPs, more than 30 % of paths have inflated latency due to hot-potato routing, with 5 % of paths being delayed by at least 12 ms. Inflation due to AS-level path selection, while substantial, was attributed primarily to BGP's lack of a mechanism to directly optimize for latency, rather than to selfish routing policies.

Victorian England was divided on Richard: " Many of them admired him as a crusader and man of God, erecting an heroic statue to him outside the Houses of Parliament ; Stubbs, on the other hand, thought him " a bad son, a bad husband, a selfish ruler, and a vicious man ".

Morse was not a selfish man.

" The character of James Vane was also introduced, which helped to elaborate upon Sibyl Vane's character and background ; the addition of the character helped to emphasise and foreshadow Dorian's selfish ways, as James sees through Dorian's character, and guesses upon his future dishonourable actions ( the inclusion of James Vane's sub-plot also gives the novel a more typically Victorian tinge, part of Wilde's attempts to decrease the controversy surrounding the book ).

Years later, Margaret's daughter Alice called Tubman's actions selfish, saying, " she had taken the child from a sheltered good home to a place where there was nobody to care for her.

This was shown not to be an evolutionarily stable strategy, in that it would only take a single individual with a tendency towards more selfish behaviour to undermine a population otherwise filled only with the gene for altruism towards non-kin.

Furthermore, they argued, political divisiveness was also universal and inevitable because of selfish passions that were integral to human nature.

The habit of comparing him unfavourably to William Cecil was continued by Conyers Read in 1925: " Leicester was a selfish, unscrupulous courtier and Burghley a wise and patriotic statesman ".

He was a vigorous and exciting ( if sometimes selfish and rapacious ) lover, and some of his partners became quite fond of him-though by his own admission, others tried to kill him afterwards.

About this time he was appointed to a canonry in Utrecht and to another in Aachen, and the life of the brilliant young scholar was rapidly becoming luxurious, secular and selfish, when a great spiritual change passed over him which resulted in a final renunciation of every worldly enjoyment.