Her ambition to bring back Buffy from the dead inevitably led to Tara getting shot and killed.

Although the league's proclaimed ambition was to bring American football onto a worldwide stage, the farthest the WFL reached was placing a team – the Hawaiians – in Honolulu, Hawaii.

With Fukuoka's ambitions to become a hub for business and travel in East Asia and former Mayor Mr. Hirotaro Yamasaki's stated ambition to bring the Olympic Games to Fukuoka and Kyūshū in 2016, moving the airport further inland or to an offshore artificial island to accommodate increased traffic has been considered.

Knowing that such a genocidal ambition, even against an aggressively violent species, would lead a Jedi down the path of the dark side of the Force, Luke Skywalker and Anakin Solo decide to find Daeshara ' cor and bring her back to the Order.

Halhed also had a literary ambition to which end he corresponded with Sheridan and worked together to bring their ventures to reality.

Several schemes were put forward for canals to bring the sand to the countryside, and these proposals did not lack ambition.

England U19 scout and former City boss Steve Castle was next put in the position, and he declared his ambition to bring former players of the Saints back to Clarence Park.

In 1904 appeared the third volume, La Renaissance de l ' État, in which the author describes the efforts of the Direct Capetian kings to reconstruct the power of the Frankish kings over the whole of Gaul ; and goes on to show how the clergy, the heirs of the imperial tradition, encouraged this ambition ; how the great lords of the kingdom ( the " princes ", as Flach calls them ), whether as allies or foes, pursued the same end ; and how, before the close of the 12th century, the Capetian kings were in possession of the organs and the means of action which were to render them so powerful and bring about the early downfall of feudalism.

Craig joining the club was seen as a key appointment of Featherstone Rovers ambition to bring top flight Rugby League back to the Big Fellas Stadium.

By the end of March, the opinion was openly expressed that Christian Frederik's ambition was to bring Norway back under Danish sovereignty.

It was marked by the ambition to bring about a gradual “ opening to the left ”, whereby the Socialists and the ( still Stalinist ) Communist Party would be brought back into the national government, and Italy would abandon NATO, becoming a non-aligned country.

She began to feel that her marriage would bring good fortune for her ambition to develop a school for native women.

Shane O ' Neill's career was marked by his ambition to be The Ó Néill Mór-Sovereign of the dominant Ó Néill Mór family of Tyrone ... and thus head overking or Rí ruirech of the entire province.

Likewise, relaxation of canonical restrictions with respect to clerical marriage led many to regard the entire movement as driven mainly by the unsatisfied ambition of married priests.

" Opposing counsel countered that " it is the ambition of the State to have its entire population 100 per cent.

It was only at this point that Stanley was informed of the magnitude of Leopold's ambition: Stanley was not merely to construct a series of trading stations, he was to secretly carve out an entire nation.

Her ambition was to get to France, where, as she put it, ‘ it was all going on .’ In her memoir, Perverse and Foolish, she gives a full count of her war-time experiences in which she showed all the irreverence for red tape and conventional attitudes which were to become characteristic of her entire life.

The iron will of a man, whose entire life was channeled into one supreme ambition!

Whiteway's major policy ambition was the construction of a railway spanning the island which was begun in 1881 and which he believed would spur economic development of the colony.

The country prospered under his rule, but not peacefully, as his laws interfered with the ambition of powerful nobles.

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.

The defeat however consummated many Afrikaners ' ambition: South Africa would be under white rule.

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.

The pamphlet titled the Brief Relation, which represented the Jesuits as having set up virtually an independent kingdom in South America under their own sovereignty, and of tyrannising the Native Americans, all in the interest of an insatiable ambition and avarice, whether or not it was completely true, was damaging to the Jesuit cause.

An often stated ambition of systems biology is the modeling and discovery of emergent properties, properties of a system whose theoretical description is only possible using techniques which fall under the remit of systems biology.

However, the achievements of Jean Germain are criticised by the municipal opposition for a lack of ambition: no large building projects comparable with those of Jean Royer have been instituted under his double mandate.

He had little ambition towards the papacy, but consented under pressure.

Antipater saw clearly that it would be easier to reach the object of his ambition, the control of Judea, under the government of the weak Hyrcanus than under the warlike and energetic Aristobulus.

By age 22, he was focused with driving ambition, much to the credit of his friend Wayne Budd's father, an ex-Marine turned policeman in Springfield who took him under his wing and encouraged him to go to school.

Even so, Liu Bei was full of ambition since childhood: he once said to his peers, while under a tree that resembled the royal chariot, that he desired to become an emperor.

The national ideology that the Slovaks are descended from the Slavs who inhabited the territory of present-day Slovakia between the 5th-10th centuries has a long story and it is connected with the ambition of the Slovaks to reach self-determination or autonomy within Hungary ( mostly under romantic nationalism of the 19th century and during the Slovak national revival ).

From 1548 to 1551, Foxe brought out one tract opposing the death penalty for adultery and another supporting ecclesiastical excommunication of those who he thought " veiled ambition under the cloak of Protestantism.

Simple instances of self-deception include common occurrences such as: the alcoholic who is self-deceived in believing that his drinking is under control, the husband who is self-deceived in believing that his wife is not having an affair, the jealous colleague who is self deceived in believing that her colleague's greater professional success is due to ruthless ambition.

In the first years of his government, young Bolesław remained under the strong influence of his mother Salomea and the Voivode Wszebor, who feared the ambition of his elder half-brother High Duke Władysław II ( the first-born son of the late duke by his first wife Zbyslava of Kiev ).

Although immigration generally requires short-and long-term visitors to disavow any ambition to seek the green card ( permanent residency ), H-1B visa holders are an important exception, in that the H-1B is legally acknowledged as a possible step towards a green card under what is called the doctrine of dual intent.

Raised in a convent in Warwickshire under the direction of Saint Modwen her ambition was to become an abbess, but she was too important as a dynastic pawn to be set aside.

In Hawaii v. Mankichi ( 1903 ) his opinion stated: " If the principles now announced should become firmly established, the time may not be far distant when, under the exactions of trade and commerce, and to gratify an ambition to become the dominant power in all the earth, the United States will acquire territories in every direction ... whose inhabitants will be regarded as ' subjects ' or ' dependent peoples ,' to be controlled as Congress may see fit ... which will engraft on our republican institutions a colonial system entirely foreign to the genius of our Government and abhorrent to the principles that underlie and pervade our Constitution.

During this time the rulers of Arborea developed the ambition to unite all of Sardinia under their rule and create a single Sardinian state.

Later, in 1983, under the supervision of the president João Rocha, the ambition of many Sportinguista's was realised with the " closing " of the stadium for the construction of a new seated terrace, that replaced the old standing terrace on the stadium's precinct.

Originally a kampong village, the area has been rapidly developed under the ambition of the Housing and Development Board ( HDB ) to transform it into a modern township.

Despite his detective training, Terry's ambition is to be a physician, and, under Bruce, he learns to create cures, remedies and antidotes.

Davitt ’ s ambition that the ownership of the land would be transferred from the landlords to the tenants finally materialised after the 1902 Land Conference under O ’ Brien ’ s Wyndham Land ( Purchase ) Act ( 1903 ), but not as he had campaigned for.