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.

He termed his ideology, a blend of chauvinist nationalism and mysticsm, as ' Neo-Khmerism ': he expressed an ambition of reuniting the ethnic Khmers of Cambodia with the Khmer Krom of the Mekong Delta and the Khmer Surin of Thailand, projecting a state of " thirty million " Khmers by the year 2020.

" Procter herself expressed little ambition about her work: her friend Bessie Raynor Belloc thought that Procter was pained that her reputation as a poet had outstripped her father's, and quoted Procter as saying that " Papa is a poet.

He expressed optimism that Obama " has the ambition and potential to foster a real momentum for development ".

Both sides expressed their ambition to strive for a normalization of the relations between the European states while keeping international peace and to follow the guidelines of the article no. 2 of the UN Charter.

She eventually expressed ambition to become a Practitioner.

It expressed indirect support for the United States ' ambition of a régime change in Iraq in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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

His expressed life ’ s dream of traveling to Liberia may have been “ politically correct ” talk to convey an impression of personal ambition in a non-threatening way to white visitors.

At the outset, the AMWU expressed an ambition to replace the NSFU and ultimately to become part of the recently-established Transport and General Workers Union.

She or he has the striving to be superior in the sense that we all have ambition to be successful ; but so long as this striving is expressed in work it does not lead to false valuations, which are at the root of mental disease.

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

Although he liked the first level for " mixing an impressive amount of references from the show with gameplay that has a pinch of point-and-click adventure in ", he expressed his dislike for the other levels: " Unfortunately, either due to lack of ideas or lack of time ( most likely the latter ), the rest of Bart Vs. the Space Mutants doesn't quite live up to the promise or ambition of the first level ; the remaining four stages devolve into a frustrating and generic exercise in platforming that lacks all of the little references that made the beginning of the game somewhat authentic.

And when finally Kartini's ambition was thwarted, many of her friends expressed their disappointment.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.