With these lessons in mind, Alfred capitalised on the relatively peaceful years immediately following his victory at Ethandrun by focusing on an ambitious restructuring of his kingdom's military defences.

With these reverses, the Dutch now refused to contemplate Marlborough ’ s ambitious march to Italy or, indeed, any plan that denuded their borders of the Duke and their army.

With the demise of the Black Hand in June 1917 after the Salonika Trial, The White Hand steadily gained control of the young and ambitious Prince Alexander.

With the resources thus gained he undertook to enable Philip V to carry out an ambitious foreign policy to undo the Treaty of Utrecht, with the aim of countering the Habsburgs and recovering Spanish possessions in Italy, where he was responsible for unwarranted invasions of Sardinia ( November 1717, strongly supported by Sardinian politician Vicente Bacallar ) and Sicily ( July 1718 ), in spite of promises made to the Pope, while pressing Spanish causes in France with the Cellamare Conspiracy.

With the dream of building a lucrative overseas colony for Scotland, the Company of Scotland invested in the Darien scheme, an ambitious plan devised by William Paterson to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama in the hope of establishing trade with the Far East.

With the advent of the Union and the demise of Jacobitism, access to London and the Empire opened up very attractive career opportunities for ambitious middle-class and upper-class Scots, who seized the chance to become entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and soldiers.

With Augustus being the father of only one daughter ( Julia the Elder by Scribonia ), Livia revealed herself to be an ambitious mother and soon started to push her own sons Tiberius and Nero Claudius Drusus into power.

With the West Belfast UDA brigadier and spokesman Tommy Lyttle in prison and gradually eased out of the leadership, Adair, as the most ambitious of the " Young Turks ", established himself as head of the UDA / UFF's " C Company ", 2nd Battalion based on the Shankill.

With ambitious membership targets, a year after launch, Heyday had proved an expensive and controversial exercise within the Age Concern federation.

With the depression, ambitious railroad building programs crashed across the South, leaving most states deep in debt and burdened with heavy taxes.

With their newfound power, Republicans pursued an ambitious agenda but were often forced to compromise with President Clinton, who wielded veto power.

With respect to the latter, the ambitious Lassalle attempted to make common cause with the conservative Bismarck by his new book Herr Basitat-Schulze, declaring: that he " must inform Your Excellency that this work will bring about the utter destruction of Liberals and the whole Progressive bourgeoisie.

With a decree establishing a Reichsautobahnen project for an entire network of highways, issued on 27 June 1933, Adolf Hitler made it a vastly more ambitious public project and that responsibility rested on Fritz Todt's shoulders as the newly-named Inspector General of German Roadways.

With a prospering business and capital in reserve, he embarked on several ambitious projects, often simultaneously.

With the tacit agreement of Napoleon III of France, Giacomo Cardinal Antonelli, the administrator of the Papal Treasury, embarked on an ambitious increase in silver coinage without the prescribed amount of metal.

With respect to the Manchurian Incident, the newspaper blamed ambitious Japanese militarists, as well as politicians who were impotent to rein them in.

With the Ulysses spacecraft on its way, the STS-41 crew began an ambitious schedule of science experiments.

In the column, Johns wrote: " With light sweet crude futures for June currently priced at roughly $ 65 a barrel, an ambitious short and long-term energy policy that enhances supply becomes important if, for no other reason, than the fact that, at $ 100 a barrel, the impact on this economy and the American people would be hugely painful.

With the generous assistance of its parents and past pupils and with government grants the school embarked on an ambitious building programme in 1982.

With Lev Landau, Lifshitz co-authored Course of Theoretical Physics, an ambitious series of physics textbooks, in which the two aimed to provide a graduate-level introduction to the entire field of physics.

With the explosion of film musicals in the late 1920s, Hollywood attracted a number of ambitious young songwriters and Coslow joined the exodus in 1929.

With the backing of its parent, ACCBank is now embarking on ambitious plans to strengthen and grow its presence in Ireland as a leading Business and Agri-business bank.

With the rise of the politically ambitious T. Rattinasami Nadar, a wealthy Nadar of Porayar in Thanjavur district, a new association was formed.

With introductions and notes the two volumes were an ambitious project – nothing on this scale had been attempted by a single translator before, or has since.

With his long service he had a long memory, an excellent thing in a political leader.

With all these agencies, the congressman must constantly check the political wind and trim his sails accordingly.

With the Renaissance, tyrannicide — or assassination for personal or political reasons — became more common again in Western Europe.

With the revenues gained by his bootlegging operation, Capone increased his grip on the political and law-enforcement establishments in Chicago.

With his death, the family lost much of its remaining political appeal, though claimants continue to assert their right to the imperial title.

With Mahoré continuing to gravitate politically and economically toward France, and Comoros increasingly dependent on the French for help with its own considerable social, political, and economic problems, the issue of Mahoré diminished somewhat in urgency.

With Vladimir Putin's rise to power, the reference to the FSB members as " Chekists " arose, particularly by Putin's political opponents, often with negative connotations.

With over 200, 000 Chinese casualties, Chiang lost the political cream of his Whampoa-trained officers.

With the individual positions varying greatly, a political consensus could not be reached.

With this, a dominant male is unsure if there has been any " political maneuvering " and must re-establish his dominance.

With its emphasis on notions of social contract and the collective will of the people, democracy can also be characterized as a form of political collectivism because it is defined as a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.

With his debts and political difficulties, the marriage was most likely troubled, but it lasted 50 years and produced eight children, six of whom survived.

With the swift rise of Islamism and religious groups such as Hamas in the 1980s, the DFLP faded among the Palestinian youth, and internal confusion over the future path of the organization paralysed political decision-making.

With the return of Vespasian in late September, his political role was rendered all but obsolete and Domitian withdrew from government devoting his time to arts and literature.

With the rise of nation-states and the Protestant Reformation, the theory of divine right justified the king's absolute authority in both political and spiritual matters.

With annual spending totalling billions of US dollars, Formula One's economic effect and creation of jobs is significant, and its financial and political battles are widely reported.

With Conté as president, the CMRN set about dismantling Touré's oppressive regime, abolishing the authoritarian constitution, dissolving the sole political party and its mass youth and women's organizations, and announcing the establishment of the Second Republic.

With Frick's support, Himmler ( pushed on by his right hand man, Reinhard Heydrich ) took over the political police of state after state.

With all the main parties committed to the Union, new nationalist and independent political groupings began to emerge, including the National Party of Scotland in 1928 and Scottish Party in 1930.

With symbolic handshake and warm smiles at the Rainbow Towers hotel, in Harare, Mugabe and Tsvangirai signed the deal to end the violent political crisis.

With the promise of political emancipation many Jews saw no reason to continue to observe Jewish law and increasing numbers of Jews assimilated into Christian Europe.

With the help of political allies, Caesar later overturned this, and was instead appointed to govern Cisalpine Gaul ( northern Italy ) and Illyricum ( southeastern Europe ), with Transalpine Gaul ( southern France ) later added, giving him command of four legions.

With a weak central government, political corruption had spiraled out of control, and the status quo had been maintained by a corrupt aristocracy, which saw no need to change a system that had made its members rich.

With no doubts, the honor of the chairmanship in the authoritative international organizations symbolizes the success of social, economic and political achievements of Kazakhstan during the 18 years of its independence.

With granted Party ’ s recommendation, he started political sciences studies at the Party ’ s Higher School of Political Sciences ( Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Społecznych ), graduating in 1977.