Sentences with phrase «when national ambitions»

This could not have been what he had expected, had hoped for, even a few years ago when national ambitions were still high.

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He's always been tough, but he changed when he started to have national ambitions,» said George Arzt, former press secretary to Democrat Ed Koch, one of Giuliani's predecessors as New York City mayor.

This is with the Portuguese national often firing shots at the Gunners for a lack of ambition when it comes to success, transfers and the board's decision to stick with Arsene Wenger.

David Wildstein, the professed mastermind in the so - called Bridgegate scandal, was spared prison when he was sentenced for his role in the blocking of lanes near the George Washington Bridge as political revenge against a New Jersey mayor, closing a final chapter in a bizarre episode that grounded the national political ambitions of Gov. Chris Christie.

Where was he when he was Guv, except visiting red states to drum up lackluster support for his national ambitions.

«New York is learning what happens when the Mayor prioritizes his personal national ambitions over running New York: crime is on the rise, public schools are still failing our children, and Bill de Blasio's signature initiative, Vision Zero, isn't working,» Laska said in a statement.

When absence would be too conspicuous or odd, like at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, Cuomo danced along a line of fulfilling obligations without letting himself slide into narratives of 2016 ambition.

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.

It's a brilliantly vivid and readable study that captures the clash of egos, interests, political enmities and ambitions that took place when the major powers met to redraw the national boundaries of Europe and beyond.

In 1972, Michael Heizer (b. 1944) began his life's masterwork: the sprawling City in the Nevada desert which, when completed, will be comparable in scale to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Constructed solely from rocks, sand and concrete, City is stunning in scope and ambition, and also largely unknown and unseen.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, this leading global climate platform will be a key milestone to ramp up national climate pledges before 2020, when the Paris Agreement will need to increase its ambition to deliver an under 2 °C world.

The Paris Agreement created a framework for solving the climate problem, yet the post-Paris media has poorly covered the implications for nations of what sufficient ambition and fairness should be required of nations when they formulate national climate policies if very dangerous climate change is to be avoided.