In 1228, with the departure of the Almohad prince, Idris, who left Iberia to take the Almohad leadership, the ambitious Ibn al-Ahmar established the longest lasting Muslim dynasty on the Iberian peninsula-the Nasrids.

Ibn al-Qalanisi describes him as " a firm believer in the doctrines of Sunnah, upright in conduct, a lover of justice towards both troops and civil population, judicious in counsel and plan, ambitious and resolute, of penetrating knowledge and exquisite tact, of generous nature, accurate in his intuitions, and possessing a sense of justice which preserved him from wrongdoing and led him to shun all tyrannical methods.

De León was not a member of any political party ; lacking a political base but with strong popular support, he launched an ambitious anticorruption campaign to " purify " Congress and the Supreme Court, demanding the resignations of all members of the two bodies.

The most famous of these is the Villa d ' Este, a World Heritage Site, whose construction was started in 1549 by Pirro Ligorio for Cardinal Ippolito II d ' Este and which was richly decorated with an ambitious program of frescoes by famous painters of late Roman Mannerism, such Livio Agresti ( a member of the " Forlì painting school ") or the Zuccari brothers.

At that time he was an ambitious twenty-six year-old member of the Parlement of Paris.

* According to Thierry Wanegffelen, the member of the royal family with the most responsibility in this affair is Henry, Duke of Anjou, the king's ambitious younger brother.

Emma Smith remarked that " each member should be ambitious to do good " and seek out and relieve the distressed.

As a member and chairman of the Pima County Board of Supervisors, Grijalva was widely regarded as a central figure behind the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, an ambitious County program for planned land-use and biodiversity conservation.

Stevie Wright went on to become a cast member of the original Australian stage production of Jesus Christ Superstar ( 1972 – 73 ) and then launched a successful but short-lived solo career with the hit single " Evie " and the album Hard Road in 1974, which reunited him with Vanda and Young, who produced the records and wrote many of the songs, including " Evie ", an ambitious three-part suite split over two sides of a single.

The government has undertaken a 210 million euro program to bolster broadband internet connectivity in provincial Greece, which was approved by the European Commission in 2006 with the commendation that it constituted " the most ambitious broadband development program that any EU member has ever undertaken ".

* Katie Finneran as Sharon Tyler – The eldest of the Tyler siblings, Sharon is an immigration lawyer and the most ambitious member of the family.

In his Diaries, the military historian and Tory member of Parliament Alan Clark famously quoted what he claimed was Jopling's " snobby but cutting " dismissal of the ambitious Conservative deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine: " The trouble with Michael is that he had to buy his own furniture ".

Freed of her former marriage vows, in 1938 Helena readily married Prince Artchil Gourielli-Tchkonia ( 1895 – 1955 ), whose somewhat clouded materlineal claim to Georgian nobility, as that of Prince Artchil Gourielli-Tchkonia ( sometimes spelled Courielli-Tchkonia ; born at Georgia, 18 February 1895, died at New York City 21 November 1955 ), stemmed from his having been born a member of the untitled noble Tchkonia family of Guria, enticing the ambitious young man to appropriate the genuine title of his grandmother, born Princess Gourielli.

The Ken Olsen Science Center, named for the founder of Digital Equipment Corporation and long-time Gordon College Board member, Ken Olsen, is the College ’ s most ambitious building endeavor to date: an science and technology center at the heart of the campus.

In 1874, Windich was a member of John Forrest's third and most ambitious expedition.

Josef Staudigl, the eminent German bass, was a member of the company, and at his suggestion Hatton wrote a more ambitious work, Pascal Bruno, which, in a German translation, was presented at Vienna, with Staudigl in the principal part ; the opera contained a song, " Revenge ", which the basso made very popular in England, though the piece as a whole was not successful enough to be produced there.

In legend, St Kenelm was a member of the royal family of Mercia, a boy king and martyr, murdered by an ambitious relative despite receiving a prophetic dream warning him of the danger.

In 1954, Bonatti, was an ambitious 24-year-old member of the expedition.

Clark was an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau ( CIB ), an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales.

Peter Heather notes that Agila's reign was during a period of civil war following the death of Amalaric, the last member of the old Visigothic dynasty, when ambitious Gothic nobles competed openly for the throne.

The place is the result of an ambitious development project, organized in the form of an International Ideas Contest ( opened to any member of the International Union of Architects ), held in 1961 under the auspice of Alejandro del Castillo, owner and promoter of most of the space under construction.

The history of the canal begins on June 3, 1443, date of a document by Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan, approving an ambitious project put forward by a group of illustrious Milanese citizens led by Catellano Cotta, the duke's administrator for the salt monopoly.

Gianfranco Fini, a moderniser who sees Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron as models, impressed an ambitious political line to the party, combining the pillars of conservative ideology like security, family values and patriotism with a progressive approach in other areas such as stem cell research and supporting voting rights for legal aliens.

Coming from modest beginnings in Savona, Liguria, the family rose to prominence through nepotism and ambitious marriages arranged by two Della Rovere popes, Francesco della Rovere, who ruled as Pope Sixtus IV ( 1471 – 1484 ) and his nephew Giuliano ( Pope Julius II, 1503 – 1513 ).

Most epitaphs are brief records of the family, and perhaps the career, of the deceased, often with an expression of love or respect-" beloved father of ..."-but others are more ambitious.

Audubon realized the ambitious project would take him away from his family for months at a time.

* Poul Anderson's novel The Mother of the Kings is mainly concerned with the Norwegian King Erik Bloodaxe and his family, but a section takes place in Denmark, with a depiction of the young and ambitious Harald Bluetooth ruthlessly playing off various factions and Viking leaders against each other.

Baldwin II perceived that Fulk, an ambitious man with grown sons to spare, was also a threat to Baldwin II's family and interest, and specifically a threat to his daughter Melisende.

Over the course of a dozen evocative songs, Arthur fulfils its ambitious subtitle as Davies embellishes an intimate family chronicle with satirical observations about the shifting mores of the English working class in response to the declining fortunes of the British Empire.

A naturally willing performer, Finn was nicknamed ' The Ant ' by his family due to his determined and ambitious nature.

Eldridge was able to complete the original Doheny family house on the bluffs, four houses on the beach, and 18 other homes scattered throughout the area before tragedy struck the ambitious project.

Tales of Ebroin's infamy were also found useful by the Austrasians, whose own ambitious mayoral family commissioned the continuations to the chronicle of Fredegar.

Gotti was ambitious and saw himself as a future family boss.

Cassander has been perceived to be ambitious and unscrupulous, and even members of his own family were estranged from him.

Burke's first album for MGM 1971's Electronic Magnetism ( also known as King Heavy ) was an ambitious project with songs by Elton John, Sly Stone, a couple of gospel numbers and some new material by his family.

The Million Programme ( Miljonprogrammet ) is the familiar term for an ambitious housing programme implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974 with the aim of building one million new dwellings in 10 years ; in the beginning strongly influenced by the " Garden City " developments in England during the 40's – 50's, but towards the end the developments were mostly built as single family homes along curving streets and cul-de-sacs and / or as immense tower blocks, similar to many residential districts built in Eastern Europe.

The family was middle class, but the elder Brummell was ambitious for his son to become a gentleman, and young George was raised with the understanding.

A tribute from the Canton of Geneva read: " The destiny of this family of high Persian nobility, descended from the Prophet Muhammad, is inextricably linked to that of this small European town and to an ambitious project to improve the human condition.

An ambitious ruler, Augustus hoped to make the Polish throne hereditary within his family, and to use his resources as Elector of Saxony to impose some order on the chaotic Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Tsar Boril, the most ambitious of the nobles, took the throne and exiled Alexius Slav, Ivan Asen II and Strez ( of the Asen family ).

While his family business is but a small, local grocery store, he seems ambitious with his career, and is more concerned with notions of business, capitalism and dollars, than anything else.

The film received positive reviews and currently holds an 85 % " Certified Fresh " approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the Rotten Tomatoes consensus saying that the film " isn't the most ambitious animated film, but its brisk pace, fresh characters, and big laughs make for a great time for the whole family.

Described as " well educated, ambitious, and soft-spoken ," Ayyash hailed from a relatively affluent family.

Born in the neighborhood of Lanuvium, a Latin town near Rome, of an undistinguished family, Quirinius followed the normal pathway of service for an ambitious young man of his social class.

The close family relations and continued exchange between David and Uzun Hassan were betrayed to the Sultan by George Amiroutzes ( which involved an ambitious plan to send one of David's sons or Alexios to grow up at the court of Uzun Hassan in seeming opposition to Mehmed ), furnished an excuse to imprison David and his sons in March 1463.