and Vincent Berger learns that political ambition is more apt to hide than to reveal the truth about men.

What we must have, if the United Nations is to survive, is as nonpolitical, nonpartisan an organization at the top as human beings can make it, subject to no single nation's direction and subservient to no single nation's ambition.

The tortured reasoning that unions use to deny their ambition to exercise monopoly power over the supply and price of labor is one of the things that create a legal profession.

His restless and imperious ambition for the church's growth, come what might for the non-Christians, is suggested by his preaching ’.

Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 BC when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for supremacy in Asia Minor is vast in ambition, sweeping in scope, vivid in imagery, rich in symbols, and obviously heroic — the Iliad of painting, as literary critic Friedrich Schlegel suggested In the painting, a swarming cast of thousands of soldiers surround the central action: Alexander on his white steed, leading two rows of charging cavalrymen, dashes after a fleeing Darius, who looks anxiously over his shoulder from a chariot.

In a 1996 New York Magazine piece on women in rock music, it was noted that Love " had the ambition most people would associate with a male rock star ... one thing you have to admire her for is that she refuses — just refuses — to be overlooked in any way.

The Catholic Church teaches that juridical oversight over the Church is not a power that derives from human ambition, but strictly from the authority of Christ which was given to his twelve apostles.

You declaim bitterly against the luxury of priests, the ambition of bishops, the tyranny of the Roman Pontiff, and the babbling of the sophists ; against our prayers, fasts, and Masses ; and you are not content to retrench the abuses that may be in these things, but must needs abolish them entirely ... Look around on this ‘ Evangelical ’ generation, and observe whether amongst them less indulgence is given to luxury, lust, or avarice, than amongst those whom you so detest.

However, it is not clear the extent to which Maximus sought this position due to his own ambition or if he was merely a pawn in the power struggle.

Justinian showed much ambition, and it has been thought that he was functioning as virtual regent long before Justin made him associate Emperor on 1 April 527, although there is no conclusive evidence for this.

A main theme within Macbeth is the destruction that follows when ambition goes beyond moral constraints.

In each case, ambition, spurred by the prophecies of the witches, is what drives the couple to commit their atrocities.

This opinion recurs in critical literature, and, according to Caroline Spurgeon, is supported by Shakespeare himself, who apparently intended to degrade his hero by vesting him with clothes unsuited to him and to make Macbeth look ridiculous by several nimisms he applies: His garments seem either too big or too small for him – as his ambition is too big and his character too small for his new and unrightful role as king.

This interpretation is not fully provable ; however, the motivating role of ambition for Macbeth is universally recognised.

The ambition of geometric model theory is to provide a geography of mathematics by embarking on a detailed study of definable sets in various mathematical structures, aided by the substantial tools developed in the study of pure model theory.

The Malay term Tanah Melayu ( literally: ' The Malay Land ') is generally used by the Malays and occasionally used in political discourse to describe uniting all ethnic Malay people on the peninsula under one Malay nation, although this ambition was largely realised with the creation of Malaysia.

A minor state is essentially hypomania and, like hypomania's characteristics, may involve increased creativity, wit, gregariousness, and ambition.

In Shakespeare's play, Macbeth is portrayed initially as a valorous and good-hearted general to King Duncan, but who later is corrupted by ambition.

Darwin himself only ventured to propound his theories in a biological sense, and it is other thinkers and theorists who have applied Darwin's model to unequal endowments of human ambition.

Loyal and unscrupulous, with a single-minded ambition to which he devoted all his energies, he outmatched the English diplomats time and time again until, by a kind of poetic justice, he fell at the battle of Courtrai, the victim of the equally nationalistic if less articulate Flemings.

He hoped that he might be regarded by them as their champion against the ambition of Octavian, who he presumed would not be willing to abandon his position in a similar manner.

On the other hand, classical liberals believed that men of higher rank were motivated by ambition.

In 1226 Duke Konrad I of Masovia summoned the Teutonic Knights for assistance ; by 1230 they had secured Chełmno ( Culm ) and begun claiming conquered territories for themselves under the authority of the Holy Roman Empire, although these claims were rejected by the Poles, whose ambition had been to conquer Prussia all along.

But this arrangement soon gave way before the ambition of one of these tetrarchs, Deiotarus, the contemporary of Cicero and Julius Caesar, who made himself master of the other two tetrarchies and was finally recognized by the Romans as ' king ' of Galatia.

This ambition was expressed by the partial recovery of the territories of the defunct Western Roman Empire.

Now, strongly drawn by ambition, inspired by fellow poets such as Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron, and beleaguered by family financial crises, he suffered periods of depression.

In the aftermath of Munich, Hitler was in a violently anti-British mood caused in part by his rage over being " cheated " out of the war to " annihilate " Czechoslovakia that he very much wanted to have in 1938, and in part by his realization that Britain would neither ally herself nor stand aside in regard to Germany's ambition to dominate Europe.

They have, by the help of Divine Providence, overcome all obstacles, and have made themselves free ... I know not by what misfortune, we are fallen into the error of those, who poised the Emperor Titus to make room for Domitian, who made away Augustus that they might have Tiberius, and changed Claudius for Nero ... whereas the people of England are now renowned, all over the world, for their great virtue and discipline ; and yet suffer an idiot, without courage, without sense, nay, without ambition, to have dominion in a country of liberty.

" Alliluyeva noticed how the Politburo seemed openly frightened of Beria and unnerved by his bold display of ambition.

Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself.

The evil actions motivated by his ambition seem to trap him in a cycle of increasing evil, as Macbeth himself recognises: " I am in blood / Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more ,/ Returning were as tedious as go o ' er.

His ambition to bring the entire island under his control was largely achieved by his son and successor, King Radama I ( 1810 – 28 ).

The believers thus justified pursuit of profit with religion, as instead of being fuelled by morally suspect greed or ambition, their actions were motivated by a highly moral and respected philosophy.

In the late 11th century, royal dynasties legitimised by the Church were asserting their power with increasing authority and ambition, and the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden had taken shape.

The prize of three centuries, my dream and ambition for twenty-three years.

" It emerges that Greenberg's lifelong ambition is to play Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, yet the three times that Greenberg recites sections of Shylock's most famous speech, the word " Jew " has in each case been written out.

Hollywood, he notices, regularly and efficiently turns out three products: moving pictures, ambition, and fear.

The stars are said today to show the ambition of young pupils and the three distinguishing principles of the Society: friendship, morality, and learning.

Her intellect and ambition were demonstrated by her ability to compress three years of Latin into one, and by graduating at the top of her high school class in Crowley.

He left for Europe in 1969, with the ambition to convince team owners of his talent in three months.

James Berardinelli of Reelviews. net gave the film three stars out of four stating, " What the storyline lacks in ambition, it makes up for in sheer, unfettered likability.

Nora Titone, in her book My Thoughts Be Bloody, recounts how the shame and ambition of Junius Brutus Booth's three illegitimate actor sons, Junius Brutus Booth Jr. ( who never achieved the stage stardom of his two younger actor brothers ) Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, spurred them to strive, as rivals, for achievement and acclaim — Edwin, a Unionist, and John Wilkes, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.

After three years at Riverside, Chester transferred to the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech — his ambition since high school.

And the first three happily put aside personal ambition to let Ganguly lead them into a new era.

Johnson was also responsible for the White Paper Building Trust in Statistics As Economic Secretary she supported the EU action against money laundering stating " Money laundering is a very serious offence, with the capacity to undermine financial markets and to corrupt professional advisers " Following the 2000 Budget Johnson, whilst speaking to NPI Conference, commented " in the Budget three weeks ago now, this Government took the next steps towards our ambition for a Britain of opportunity and security not just for a few but for all, with prosperity reaching the people and places the economy has too long forgotten .".

Despite its ambition and the quality of its teachers ( often chosen among prestigious Parisian academics ), the school was considered as a second chance for upper-class children who did not want to attend university and a way to shorten compulsory military service ( one year instead of three ).

The company's name means three oceans in Japanese, referring to the founder's ambition to sell their products worldwide, across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.

Keane's ambition refused to let him stagnate in Italy and in December 2000, he was loaned out to Leeds United, after only 14 appearances and three goals for Internazionale in all competitions, his most memorable coming in the Italian Supercup against Lazio, after two minutes into the match.

Jordania expressed his ambition for Vitesse to become champion of the Eredivisie league within three years.

Morrison had a longstanding ambition to become governor of Louisiana, and he ran unsuccessfully for that office three times.

The central theme of all three manifestos is the elaboration of a philosophy and value system which does not necessarily include belief in any personal deity or " higher power ", although the three differ considerably in their tone, form, and ambition.

The series follows three interwoven plotlines: a dynastic war for control of Westeros by several families ; the rising threat of the dormant cold supernatural Others dwelling beyond an immense wall of ice on Westeros ' northern border ; and the ambition of Daenerys Targaryen, the exiled daughter and only remaining heir of a king murdered fifteen years earlier in a rebellion, to return to Westeros with her fire-breathing dragons and claim her rightful throne.

His ambition was to be a trumpet player, but that ended after he lost three fingers on his right hand in an industrial accident the summer after he graduated from high school.

The alliance, which initially comprised the three major northern states of Brandenburg / Prussia, Hanover and Saxony, was set up officially to safeguard the constitutional integrity and territorial status quo of the Empire, but more immediately to oppose the long-cherished ambition of Joseph II to add Bavaria to the Habsburg domains.

The three-way merger in 2000 represented the ambition of all three firms of becoming an international law firm, and was described by the UK's Financial Times as " probably the most significant pan-European merger to date in the restructuring of Europe ’ s legal services.

Judge Squires ordered that the three sentences run concurrently and described Shaik as a man with commendable vision, ambition, and energy, but one who appears to have lost his moral compass and scruples.