Sentences with phrase «own grand ambitions»

Macron's honeymoon may be over, but after his fledgling party's big parliamentary win in June, his grand ambitions might just be in reach.

Today, Nader Al - Naji is the CEO of Basis — a hot cryptocurrency startup, with grand ambitions to replace regular money, and which recently took in a $ 133 million investment round from firms including GV (formerly Google Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

When it comes to sustainability, Copenhagen has grand ambitions and wants to be carbon neutral by 2025.

Cups has grand ambitions.

The U.S. needn't «control» Iraq; all it need do is disrupt anyone else's grand ambitions or access to the oil.

The rocket company, which occupies five large warehouses in El Segundo, is ready for a home becoming of its grand ambitions, and Musk has picked out an absurdly large one.

«We can all benefit by cultivating a grand ambition, a goal that is big enough to stretch our vision beyond our current horizon and important enough that it fuels our tenacious effort.»

The move is hardly a surprise given the recent mania that has seen companies use ICOs (also known as token sales) raise tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars even though, in many cases, their business consists of little more than grand ambitions and a white paper.

But Riviera had even grander ambitions.

In the process, he and Morgan Stanley are becoming the face of what may be Wall Street's future: highly profitable, to be sure, but with fewer of the grand ambitions or larger - than - life personalities that have always characterized the place.

Despite the grand ambitions for cooperation voiced by the two countries» leaders, achieving substantive results often eludes them, particularly in the Russian Far East and the Arctic, where realizing the plethora of trade, investment, and infrastructure deals announced since 2014 has been difficult.

With hefty debt and few assets to buy, it's hard to see Altice achieving its grand ambitions.

But like myself and Stillman, he would have serious reservations about the type of grand ambition on offer in THE DOORS or ALMOST FAMOUS.

Fast forward to today, and the Foster's board now chaired by David Crawford has abandoned its grand ambitions to run a multi-beverage alcohol company - something shareholders, staff and customers called for years ago - and will split the businesses into two listed entities.

It also gave them a chance to consider that their grandest ambitions, and the 2005 college football season, would turn on what happened next.

Back then it looked like Amanda Staveley and PCP Partners were edging towards a deal to buy Newcastle United with grand ambitions.

In July, I shared with you my grand ambition of finishing a knit sweater for everyone it my family by Solstice.

«Much more than that, I don't have any grand ambitions for the future other than to do my bit.

However grand their ambitions, no - one here successfully manages to escape the grips of circumstance, of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

During my third year, I had grand ambitions to genetically manipulate plants, only to discover that after treating thousands of seeds, I obtained just one plant I could use for experiments.

To achieve their grander ambitions, such as creating algae capable of churning out fuel for cars, genetic engineers are now trying to make far more sweeping changes.

That's because they sound a lot like the grander ambitions of science, particularly of those branches that seek a «theory of everything».

Although his entire career has been focused on looking at the sky and pursuing grand ambitions, part of Lewicki's motivations remain down - to - Earth.

What defined Einstein, what made his apotheosis possible, was the grand ambition that enabled him to turn his extraordinary talents to the largest mysteries available.

When it comes to tackling climate change, President Barack Obama once had grand ambitions, including forging a global deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and persuading Congress to enact legislation that would impose fees on U.S. carbon pollution.

Despite its grand ambitions, EuroParc is an easy place to miss.

These are grand ambitions that we share with many other nations, in our region and beyond.

«My grand ambition is to produce work that ends up finding its way to the clinic.

SkaDate's payment plans aim to be cost - efficient for those with limited means and grand ambitions.

This means, you will have a beautiful, smart, loving woman to hug and cuddle on the sofa with, while all the other lonely dream - chasers are spending thousands on trying to fulfil their grand ambition of marrying a 20 - year - old Ukrainian model.

It's against the film's religion to have us believe too deeply in its characters, and that agnosticism, combined with the plot's sense of predestination, put a noticeable crimp in its grand ambitions.

It's clear that the game, despite its grand ambitions, was simply not ready for public consumption.

Unbroken's set - up suggests grand ambitions.

A Game of Shadows is a film with grander ambitions than being just a solidly entertaining romp.

Though the indie falls short of its grandest ambitions, it is inventive in constructing its conceits.

n intersibling death match reminiscent of Sam Shepard's «True West,» the independent feature «Solitude» details the tortured, possibly incestuous relationship between Hilary (Mary Thornton), a dark, hyperactive young woman with grand ambitions, and her brother, Louis (Patrick Belton), a twitchy, bipolar idler who lives in a cramped Phoenix apartment filled with the moldering remains of recent takeout meals.

Silent Hill: Downpour is a title with grand ambitions, accompanied by technical issues and misunderstanding about what makes a Silent Hill title.

The very first image we see announces Chazelle's grand ambitions: we see a black - and - white square frame — the old pre-1953 Academy aspect ratio of 4:3 — with the word CinemaScope framed in the center, its right and left syllables cut off, which suddenly expands to the wider aspect ratio that the word implies (in this case, 2.55:1), gaining color at the same time.

He started with grand ambitions, he has achieved most of what he hoped for, and now he asks, with Peggy Lee: Is that all there is?

Nursing grand ambitions of her own, Nina sets her sights at Trigorin, who is never one to turn down firm young flesh.

But Dave has grand ambitions — when he's not vigorously jerking off to his well - endowed English teacher, Mrs Zane, he's dreaming of becoming a superhero.

Okay, so not all cinema has grand ambition.

In this surprisingly emotional and powerful musical drama from Damien Chazzelle, Miles Teller has grand ambitions of becoming one of the world's elite jazz drummers, and J.K. Simmons» unforgettable Fletcher has every intention of breaking those dreams into teeny, tiny little pieces.

Still, it has grand ambitions, creepy moments, admirable acting, and an exceptional ending.

Henry (Jason Clarke) and Laura McAllan (Carey Mulligan) are farmers with grand ambitions whose faith is tested by circumstances beyond their control, while neighbours Hap and Florence Jackson (Rob Morgan, Mary J Blige) endeavour to build a small dream of their own — despite the harsh social prejudice they face.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has been in operation for eight months now, and passionate owner Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel) has grand ambitions to expand by purchasing a derelict hotel nearby.

No self - respecting training manager aims for «adequate» — they have grander ambitions than that!

His signature domestic policy initiative would have made LBJ smile, as NCLB extended ESEA and infused it with an even grander ambition.

The United States invaded Iraq with grand ambitions to bring it democracy and thereby transform the Middle East.

Qualcomm had grand ambitions to usher in a new era of smartphone, tablet, and e-reader screens.