Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

To be presiding officer of it was the end of his desire and ambition.

But perhaps this was a part of the eternal plan, that man's ambition when linked with God would be a driving, indefatigable force for good in the world.

In 1806 his ambition was realized and he became professor of physics at the Copenhagen University, though not realizing full professorship ( ordinarius ) until 1817.

It wasn't long before I sensed that there was something deeper than overvaulting ambition back of his desire for Viola's destruction.

At one time it was the ambition of every saxophone player in every high school band in America to blow like Bird.

It was the kind of work I was doing, the quality of the ambition it awoke in me, that kept me from painting.

Since her adulteress mother was his own sister, Afonso V had not only ambition, but the family honour to protect.

Adam Kirsch, in his biography of Disraeli, states that his Jewishness was " both the greatest obstacle to his ambition and its greatest engine.

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.

Future coup attempts could rally around the pair, and Agrippina was already showing such ambition.

Peter, however, cannot be accused of ambition or the lust of power when a monastic superior, any more than when he insisted on divesting himself of the Papacy, to which he was subsequently raised.

The artistic challenge was resurrected with increasing ambition as art became more and more realistic with the invention of photography, film ( see Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat ), and immersive computer simulations.

Although it initially received widespread support from the diving community, the FINA requirement that international competitors had to be registered with their National Governing Body was a major factor in the abandonment of this ambition a few years later.

Ethiopian ambition in the Horn was apparent in the expansionist ambition of its monarch when Haile Selassie claimed Italian Somaliland and Eritrea.

At 15, he was reading the original papers of Joseph Louis Lagrange, such as the landmark Réflexions sur la résolution algébrique des équations which likely motivated his later work on equation theory, and Leçons sur le calcul des fonctions, work intended for professional mathematicians, yet his classwork remained uninspired, and his teachers accused him of affecting ambition and originality in a negative 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.

" His vanity, though child-like, was monstrous, his ambition unbridled.

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.

Although Coppola's ambition was for him to establish a production unit to rival the Freed Unit at MGM, the film's failure put an end to this idea.

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.

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.

One explanation for this was that Patton's ambition was to conquer Germany and he refused to recognize that he was engaged in a secondary line of attack.

Hideyoshi's last major ambition was to conquer the Ming Dynasty of China.

Sir W. Ouseley relates, that Kaikus, the Persian king, was fired with ambition to conquer so fine a country, through the influence of a minstrel, who exhausted all his powers of music and poetry in the praise of its beauties: his strains read thus:

Hong Taiji's ambition was to conquer China proper and overthrow the Ming dynasty, and to do that required not only a powerful military force but also an effective bureaucratic administration.

Although the Conclave had previously believed that Raistlin harboured plans to conquer the world, they later learned through Raistlin's apprentice ( and Conclave spy ), Dalamar, that Raistlin's ambition stretched much further than this.

Shankly's ambition was to make Liverpool into the best side in England, but first he would have to conquer their city rivals.

Howard, she laments, was smart enough to be able to conquer the world, but lacked the ambition to do so ; Zebediah, her second husband, was the other way around ( ambitious, but stupid ); Obadiah, on the other hand, is both smart and ambitious, but unfortunately his loyalty to her can no longer be relied on.

Though the period of Shajar al-Durr's rule as a monarch was of short duration, it witnessed two important events in history: one, the expelling of Louis IX from Egypt which marked the end of the Crusaders ' ambition to conquer the southern Mediterranean basin and two, the death of the Ayyubid dynasty and the birth of the Mamluk state which dominated the southern Mediterranean for decades.

When the Spanish and British realised the French ambition to conquer Mexico, they withdrew their forces on 9 April, their troops leaving on 24 April.

During his career as a director, he retained an early ambition to teach science, and after his career declined in the 1950s he made some educational TV films related to science subjects.

According to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, in his book " The Two Faces of Islam ", “ some say that during this vagabondage Ibn Abdul Wahhab came into contact with certain Englishmen who encouraged him to personal ambition as well as to a critical attitude about Islam .” Specifically, Mir ’ at al Harramin, a Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, states that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by the name of Hempher, who “ inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth .”

Machiavelli however, along with some of his classical predecessors, saw ambition and spiritedness, and therefore war, as inevitable and part of human nature.

Osman himself had gained some advantages over his Karamanli rival ; but the weak and wealthy possessions of the Byzantine Emperor in northwest Asia Minor were more tempting marks for his ambition than the Karamanoglu plains, and it was over the cities and armies of the ailing Byzantine Empire that the triumphs of the last 26 years of Osman ’ s life were achieved.

In his wide ambition and profuseness he possessed some characteristics of Robert Southey, although his style has far more vitality.

Vasari claims he had toyed with the ambition of becoming a Cardinal, perhaps after some encouragement from Leo, which also may account for his delaying his marriage.

Film critic Roger Ebert wrote that the book was " banal ," and that " The Little Engine That Could is, by comparison, a work of some depth and ambition.

England, for once, was largely united in this ambition, although some of Edward's greatest magnates and former enemies, headed by his cousin, Thomas of Lancaster, did not attend in person, sending the minimum number of troops they were required to by feudal law.

Still, some authors harbor more scientific ambition for their literary schemata than others.

Broadcast in two series, it starred David Swift as Prince Ludovico, the ambitious and henpecked ruler of Monte Guano ( the smallest and most inconsequential city-state in Renaissance Italy ), Siân Phillips as his wife Princess Plethora, Graham Crowden as Francesco ( Ludovico's perpetually drunken secretary ), Saskia Wickham as Countess Rosalie ( Ludovico's mistress Plethora's full knowledge and approval ), and as Ludovico's perpetually squabbling sons: Nick Romero as the overly religious Salvatore ( whose ambition is to become Pope some day ), Paul Bigley as Allesandro ( an eternally hopeful would-be artist and inventor ) and Christopher Kellen as Guido ( a fierce follower of Martin Luther ).

" It had always been the custom … for young men with ambitions in public life to fix upon some older model of their ambition … and regard him as a mentor " ( Kennedy, 16 ).

But what makes The Ruling Class exceptional ( and difficult for some ) are its outrageous mixing of genres and its sheer ambition.

" Macaulay's ringing endorsement of Clive seems more controversial today, as some would argue that his own ambition and desire for personal gain set the tone for the administration of Bengal until the Permanent Settlement 30 years later.

Dunne commented in an interview that she had lacked the " terrifying ambition " of some other actresses and said, " I drifted into acting and drifted out.

Lambert's biography at Screenonline suggests some reasons for this failure: " With on-location production facilities and an evident striving for a genuinely contemporary flavour, Lambert's costly Euro soap Eldorado suggested a degree of ambition ... which it seemed in the event ill-equipped to realise, and a potentially interesting subject tailed off into implausible melodrama.

As such, his ambition and forceful positions caused disagreements between him and some of the shareholders, several of whom eventually left the North West Company during the 1790s.

His great ambition was to write a history of England ; he also cherished the idea of making some worthy contribution to philosophy.

The reform was to some extent based on a political ambition to strengthen the ties with the Western world through Scandinavia, and to show that Finland was still a part of the Nordic countries, and not an Eastern Bloc country.

I admire his ambition and his very eloquent camera movements, but if I may garble something Lenin once said one last time, ' You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs '.

Starks arrives in Eatonville to find the residents devoid of ambition, so he arranges to buy more land from the neighboring landowner, hires some local residents to build a general store for him to own and run, and the people of the town appoint him mayor.

His first film as director was Not as a Stranger ( 1955 ), the story of medical students and their career, some of whom lose their idealism and succumb to blind ambition, adultery and immoral behavior.

He was reluctant to promote some promising reserves because of loyalty to the older players ( a fault that was to resurface at Liverpool years later ) and he finally resigned in January 1954, citing the board's lack of ambition as his main reason.

This pleased Ancalimë, who had inherited her father's natural ambition, but it was done less out of egalitarian impulses or paternal love ( though the latter perhaps played some role ), than because doing so suited Aldarion's other plans, and as part of his ongoing strife with Erendis.

Unrequited love and blind ambition are among the other themes in this film, as is the difficulty of some characters to express emotions fully and the repercussions that ensue.