Whatever the Hetman's ambitions, his colleagues were kept ill at ease.

Yuan's imperial ambitions were fiercely opposed by his subordinates ; faced with the prospect of rebellion, he abdicated in March 1916, and died in June of that year.

She had her own intellectual ambitions as a young woman, but they were blocked by social restrictions, because of her poverty, her being a woman and wife, and her Jewish ethnicity.

Also prominent were plots based on Dogbert's megalomaniacal ambitions.

Though his ambitions were great and he was able to buy both a country estate and a ship ( as well as civet cats to make perfume ), he was rarely out of debt.

Equally curtailed by Mucianus were Domitian's military ambitions.

Most of the group's members also had professional ambitions within science fiction and related fields, and collectively were very effective at achieving this goal, as the roster of members below suggests.

: The mock epic ( A. J. Liebling, Calvin Trillin, the French writer Robert Courtine, and any good restaurant critic ) is essentially comic and treats the small ambitions of the greedy eater as though they were big and noble, spoofing the idea of the heroic while raising the minor subject to at least temporary greatness.

Military ambitions were given an additional impetus with the competition to acquire new territory and resources, as seen for example in the Old Zurich War.

The hegemonic ambitions of the Propaganda Ministry were shown by the divisions Goebbels soon established: Press, radio, film, theatre, music, literature, and publishing.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante meets the spirit of Justinian in the Heaven of Mercury, among the other blessed souls whose earthly ambitions were imperfectly aligned with the Divine Will.

It was the first appearance in print of Keats's poetry, and Charles Cowden Clarke described it as his friend's red letter day, the first proof that Keats's ambitions were valid.

The prosperity of Zubarah, which is now in modern Qatar, had also brought it to the attention of the two main powers at the time, Persia and the Oman, which were presumably sympathetic to Sheikh Nasr ’ s ambitions.

Although there were later tensions between Scott and Shackleton, when their polar ambitions directly clashed, in public mutual civilities were preserved ; Scott joined in the official receptions that greeted Shackleton on his return in 1909 after the Nimrod Expedition, and the two were exchanging polite letters about their respective ambitions in 1909 – 10.

Successful generals in the field and in a very distant province would also gain the personal loyalty of their officers and warriors and their ambitions were probably always watched by certain circles of the distant government with a certain degree of concern and suspicion.

Abraham cautions that slave trading should not be exaggerated as a cause: the Africans were perfectly capable of finding reasons of their own to fight: territorial and political ambitions were present.

In 208 he invaded Caledonia modern Scotland, but his ambitions were cut short when he fell fatally ill in late 210.

After his death, the other members of the Council of Five Regents were unable to keep the ambitions of Tokugawa Ieyasu in check.

Early commercial ports such as Hội An were constrained and foreign countries with their different cultures and their invasion ambitions were seen as a threat.

But Canute's ambitions were not purely domestic.

Chiang also used American support and military power in China against the ambitions of the Soviet Union to dominate the talks, stopping the Soviets from taking full advantage of the situation in China with the threat of American military action against the Soviets.

Under Louis XIV France achieved military supremacy over its rivals, but escalating conflicts against increasingly powerful enemy coalitions checked French ambitions and left the kingdom bankrupt at the opening of the 18th century.

Once again, Fox was released after demonstrating that he had no military ambitions.

In addition to his military ambitions, Himmler established the beginnings of a parallel economy under the umbrella of the SS.

Yegros, a man without political ambitions, represented the nationalist criollo military elite, but Francia was the more powerful because he derived his strength from the nationalist masses.

His decision to run for reelection disappointed younger men who nursed political ambitions, and rumors that Chaves would strengthen the police at the army's expense disappointed the military.

Scandinavian predation in Christian lands around the North Sea and the Irish Sea diminished markedly. Kilmuir, Skye | Blar a ' Bhuailte, site of the Vikings ' last stand in Skye The kings of Norway continued to assert power in parts of northern Britain and Ireland, and raids continued into the 12th century, but the military ambitions of Scandinavian rulers were now directed toward new paths.

Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany had decided to visit Moscow to negotiate German reunification, signalling to Powell that the last gasp of American power in Europe to be replaced by a new balance of power not resting on military force but on the " recognition of the restraints which the ultimate certainty of failure places upon the ambitions of the respective national states.

The defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War ( 1871 ) and the subsequent annexation by Germany of the French province of Alsace-Lorraine caused the French government to abandon its colonial ambitions and withdraw its military garrisons from its French West African trading posts, leaving them in the care of resident merchants.

Julius Nepos, still residing in Dalmatia, was murdered by members of his own military in 480 ; possibly as a result of machinations by Odoacer and / or Glycerius, possibly aggravated by ambitions on Nepos ' part to regain control of Italy.

Israel feared that this policy, which encouraged Britain to withdraw its military forces from the Suez Canal, would embolden Egyptian President Nasser's military ambitions towards Israel.

military county ) started to have ambitions which resulted in military revolts, like the rebellions of Wang Dun, Su Jun, and the dictatorship of Huan Wen.

After his return to power in 1911, however, he seemed willing to sacrifice his legacy of military reform for imperial ambitions, and instead ruled by a combination of violence and bribery that destroyed the idealism of the early Republican movement.

Some combination of traditional bushidō's organic contradictions and more " universal " or " progressive " formulations, ( like those of Yamaga Soko ), would inform Japan's disastrous military ambitions in the 20th century.

In exchange, Hitler offered to reduce the SA, suppress Röhm's ambitions, and guarantee the Reichswehr would be Germany's only military force.

However, after Cromwell's fall in 1540, Henry needed money quickly to fund his military ambitions in France and Scotland ; and so monastic property was sold off, usually at the market rate of twenty years ' income ; raising over £ 1, 400, 000 (£ as of ).

In early 1971, a faction of the Bolivian military attempted to unseat the new president but failed, whereupon Banzer fled to Argentina, but did not give up his ambitions to the presidency.

Ethnic unrest in the Mauritanian armed forces also strongly contributed to the ineffectiveness of the army: forcibly conscripted black Africans from the south of the country resisted getting involved in what they viewed as a northern intra-Arab dispute, and the Moors and Sahrawis of northern Mauritania often sympathized with Polisario, fearing the regional ambitions of Morocco, and Daddah's increasing dependence on Moroccan military support.

The imperial ambitions of the Fascist regime, which aspired to restore a " Roman Empire " in the Mediterranean ( Mare Nostrum ), soon shattered as poor military planning caused defeats in Greece, East and North Africa.

Soult allowed his personal ambitions to distract him from his military duty.

new aspirants for power will emerge whose ambitions far exceed their competence ; ;

Youngish man on the make, Madden labeled him, and was ready to guess that in a correct, not too pushing fashion, the junior partner of the firm had political ambitions ; ;

Carnegie's criticism of British society did not mean dislike ; on the contrary, one of Carnegie's ambitions was to act as a catalyst for a close association between the English-speaking peoples.

Nehru ordered the arrest of the Kashmiri politician Sheikh Abdullah in 1953, whom he had previously supported but now suspected of harbouring separatist ambitions ; Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad replaced him.

Two years later at a conference in Italy, he made the same claims about their ambitions, but with a subtle change ; now he claimed that the reason for their boldness was their development of new space-based weapons.

Shortly afterwards, Vytautas was crowned as a king by local nobles ; but the following year his forces and those of his ally, Khan Tokhtamysh of the White Horde, were crushed by the Timurids at the Battle of the Vorskla River, ending his imperial ambitions in the east and obliging him to submit to Władysław's protection once more.

This show was the closest Novello came to fulfilling his mother's early ambitions for him to write operas ; he played an Austrian composer-conductor at the Wiener Hofoper.

This alliance emboldened William to challenge Emperor Charles V's claim to Guelders, but the French, mightily engaged on multiple fronts as they were in the long struggle to against the Habsburg " encirclement " of France, proved less reliable than the Duke's ambitions required, and he was unable to hold on to the duchy ; in 1543, by the terms of the Treaty of Venlo, Duke William conceded the Duchy of Guelders to the Emperor.

Magica and Negaduck had contempt for each other, which they kept hidden behind a ' friendly ' facade ; early on, Negaduck sarcastically refers to his desire for a city and hers for "... one dime " as being " similar ambitions ".

The alliance had allowed the Triumvirs to dominate Roman politics completely, but it would not last indefinitely due to the ambitions, egos, and jealousies of the three ; Caesar and Crassus were implicitly hand-in-glove, but Pompey disliked Crassus and grew increasingly envious of Caesar's spectacular successes in the Gallic War, whereby he annexed the whole of the Three Gauls to Rome.

While at Lawrenceville, he met the future Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Merrill ; their friendship and rivalry inspired the literary ambitions of both.

His ambitions were boundless and his morals lax ; however, like many prelates of his age, he was a patron of learning and the arts.

Fox refused to serve in the successor administration of the Earl of Shelburne, splitting the Whig party ; Fox's father had been convinced that Shelburne – a supporter of the elder Pitt – had thwarted his ministerial ambitions at the time of the 1763 peace.

The eight-part series, beginning on 4 October, gives three-to six-year-olds the chance to fulfil their greatest ambitions in the adult world ; whether running a photographic studio, a radio station or an ice-cream van.

He drives his friend, the novelist Julia Glenn ( patterned after Dorothy Parker ), to drink ; loses his best friend, painter Jonathan Crale ; and betrays his wife, the glamorous actress Althea Royce, simply to gain material comforts and satisfy his ambitions.