Sentences with phrase «long on ambition»

For travellers long on ambition but short on time, this extensive and compact journey up the East Coast of Queensland is nothing short of ideal.

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It's been common knowledge that NASA has wanted to send astronauts to Mars within the next two decades, but those proposals have been long on ambition and short on details — until now, as the US space agency has unveiled its five - step plan to send humans to the Red Planet.

Long on ambition but short on sensitivity, the detectors have seen more than half a century of innovation and improvements to isolate them from the slightest disturbances.

DiNapoli's words underscore the most recurring criticism of the governor's executive budget since he unveiled it, which has been that it is long on ambition and short on explanation of how his broad - brush plans would be paid for.

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WeWork declined to comment on the new incubator, and the full scope of the company's long - term ambitions for the venture are still unclear.

Ma has long harboured global ambitions, and there are signs the company is acting on them.

LOS ANGELES — Insisting that the legal, centuries - long practice of slavery in America could never have limited his personal or artistic ambitions, Kanye West stated Wednesday that if he had been born into captivity, he would have simply escaped the plantation on his motorcycle «the first chance [he] got.»

Unfortunately, there's a long tradition in Canada of viewing whatever the U.S. is doing as the upper limit to our own ambitions on clean growth.

While you might be thinking you'd love to work from home in your pajamas in front of the TV, the study goes on further to show that telecommuters put in longer hours and have more ambition.

He who is ready to surrender his hopes, ambitions, and life itself, for the love of God and his fellowmen, no longer fears death and the end of human existence, for that self - centered concern which wants to cling on to life beyond its appointed span, and seeks to bring it back again in some supernatural realm, has already died.

The team is currently working on four new cheese product concepts but the long - term ambition is to develop a variety of finished product concepts and dairy ingredients.

This is part of my research on baker's personalities that I will write my PHD thesis on because I have had a life long ambition to be Dr. Jenny John one way -LSB-...]

Give Sanchez $ 270K a week or sell him to the highest bidder if these aquisitions do nt assuage him on Arsenals long term ambition

I have always had a healthy respect for what Wenger has done for us over the years but this run of results is too much by a long chalk and its time that his competancy and the boards ambition was called into question by any of the fan groups strong enough to make a difference, theres around 200 million comming into the club next season with the new BT sports deal and I am almost certain that this wont be spent on the players we really need nor will it be used to lower season ticket prices, so where will this money go?

Ambition on the board is long gone.

Arsenal may be a big club but we are no longer big on ambition if that imaginary 4th place trophy is what we are about year after year after year.

Landing on the moon is no longer an inordinate ambition as man has conquered the moon by landing on it and also walked on it.

How long do fans go on blindly supporting a team with little REALISTIC ambition?

As long as he works hard on those areas that he pointed out then it's great that he has ambitions in his role and knows what makes a good midfielder.

The reason we don't get the «big names» anymore is that Arsene / Kroenke are not ambitious they have made us into a club to not be taken seriously, players have lost respect you can see this in the ambition and desire they show on the pitch (barring sanchez) but he will go the same way under Arsene unless he doesn't leave before long and we fail to make the CL... Arsene / Kroenke only see arsenal as a money making machine - but you knew that already..

Pochettino, meanwhile, may well have bigger ambitions on his agenda before too long after taking Tottenham to new levels in his three years in charge.

That said we have far bigger problems like a owner and board who do not care about the club and its performance and ambition on the field as long as the bank tills roll.

This downward spiral has been going on for a while and if the board had any ambition of being a top club he would have been sacked a long time ago.

As long us kroenke forget about ambition half our players have less than a yrs contract summer exodus on the cards and u r talking about RIGHT DECISIONS.

Nevertheless, given their status, ambitions and expectations after spending this summer, he can't afford to take too long to get things right before the pressure really starts to weigh on his shoulders.

Hos shot accuracy is better than some forwards out there with 63 % being on target, which could suggest he will help his team to pick the Spanish team apart, which would be long overdue and well received at this stage of the season with Champions league football looking a distant prospect — with United still in with two chances of achieving their ambition, preferably with another trophy bagged in Sweden.

«We have a governor who abandoned his long suffering people to embark on a wild goose chase in the form of a laughable presidential ambition.

But, if Salmond succeeds in achieving his life - long ambition, his legacy will be to have had a profound impact on politics throughout the whole of the United Kingdom — for my lifetime, and probably my children's, too.

In 1992, I stood again for Parliament in Lancaster, and over and above the prospect of helping to bring about meaningful political change, one long - standing ambition spurred me on: the chance to play for the House of Commons in the annual bridge match against the Lords.

More importantly, this is an attestation to the fact that the leadership of Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not grounded in the nitty - gritty of Yorùbá national interest beyond using the Yorùbá votes given to him in good faith for negotiations, in furtherance of his own personal ambition without caring about what happens to the Yorùbá Nation on the long run.

Cuomo, on the other hand, is running for re-election next year, and is universally believed to have longer - term national ambitions.

He still believes that his former party, which is the PDP, is a formidable party on which platform he can realise his age - long ambition.»

«The reasons other people that made the decisions, they took a look at the different ethnic groups that they thought for their petty political ambitions in the long run Rangel wouldn't be around and that they wanted to be on the side they thought the population would be going in,» he added.

The longer - term, overarching ambitions of both the prime minister and his deputy depend on the coalition going the distance.

In a certain sense, however, my work today is much as envisaged at the age of six and a half, when I gave up on a long - held ambition to become a milkman and chose instead for a career working with animals.

On the space front, the People's Republic's list of achievements — and stated ambitions — is long indeed.

Much of the focus of these side events has been on ways to ratchet up ambition, either through more private - sector engagement or through an emphasis on gaining more traction for a long - term goal of containing warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius below preindustrial levels, rather than the «well below 2» threshold enshrined in Paris.

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

Never give up on your ambitions no matter how long it takes!»

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Beatty's role as a rapping Cassandra is more embarrassing than timely; he may think he has his finger on the pulse of the inner cities, but its veins are in the terminal stages of arteriosclerosis (paraphrasing Mark Twain's definition of a fanatic, this is one of the disadvantages of pursuing one's ambitions after the aim has long since been forgotten; it doesn't help matters when one is sixty - one years old).

The Guardian is a bit kinder, stating, «It's hard to wholly condemn the directors» ambition - this is fast - paced and cleverly assembled,» but The Playlist disagrees, giving the film a «C -» and concluding that it's «too long by at least a half hour, and both dull and repetitive as it goes on.»

When Simon Russell Beale steps on stage at the National Theatre next week to fulfil his long - time ambition of playing Hamlet, one crucially important person will be missing.

Tonight, Domhnall will realise a long - standing ambition when he performs professionally on stage for the first time with his famous father Brendan and younger brother Brian.

The four - time Oscar - nominated Bening powerfully connected with, and lost herself in, the biopic's leading female protagonist, as she has long harbored ambitions to play Grahame on the screen.

Ang Lee displays a deft touch in directing this film, neither lingering too long on the wondrous outdoor settings that symbolised for me the unbounded passion Ennis and Jack feel, nor too short on the claustrophobic, run - down, without - ambition lives they lead when not together on Brokeback Mountain.

Baking in multiple stretch goals for what happens to students after they leave for middle school is effectively a set of bonuses to keep long - term ambitions on the radar of elementary schools.

Long form documentary credits include Emmy Nominated Sweet Ambition and Haiti's Small Miracles, both which aired on PBS stations and in classrooms around the United States.

Nora Eldridge, a thirty - seven - year - old elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who long ago abandoned her ambition to be a successful artist, has become the «woman upstairs,» a reliable friend and tidy neighbor always on the fringe of others» achievements.