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Ambition

author of a series of rags-to-riches stories. [Am. Lit.: Ragged Dick]

sacrifices her principles and her chance for love in schemes to climb the social ladder. [Am. Lit.: The House of Mirth in Hart, 385]

Chardon, Lucien

(de Rubempré) young writer determined to achieve fame and wealth. [Fr. Lit.: Balzac Lost Illusions in Magill II, 595]

Claudius

murders to gain throne; plots to keep it. [Br. Lit.: Hamlet]

Constance

ambitious for her son Arthur. [Br. Lit.: King John]

Faustus, Doctor

makes a pact with the devil to further his own ambitions. [Br. Lit.: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus]

Golden Boy

talented young violinist gives up musical career for the sake of wealth and fame as a boxer. [Am. Lit.: Odets Golden Boy in Magill III, 422]

hollyhock

traditional symbol of ambition. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 174]

John, King

aspiring, self-assertive king of mediocre character. [Br. Lit.: King John]

Macbeth

aspires to political power. [Br. Lit.: Macbeth]

Macbeth, Lady

stops at nothing to gain political power for husband. [Br. Lit.: Macbeth]

mountain laurel

traditional symbol of ambition. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 175]

Ragged Dick

hero of a Horatio Alger rags-to-riches story. [Am. Lit.: Ragged Dick]

Roxana

sleeps with the rich to get ahead in world. [Br. Lit.: Roxana, The Fortunate Mistress]

Sejanus

chief minister of Emperor Tiberius uses seduction, conspiracy, and poisoning to gain the throne. [Br. Drama: Benét, 912]

Slope, Rev. Obadiah

vainly strives to advance himself in objectionable ways. [Br. Lit.: Trollope Barchester Towers in Magill I, 55]

Sutpen, Thomas

from poor origins, tries to gain aristocratic status. [Am. Lit.: Faulkner Absalom, Absalom in Magill I, 5]

Tamburlaine

Scythian bandit becomes king of Persia and ruler of Turkey and Babylon. [Br. Drama: Tamburlaine the Great in Magill I, 950]

What Makes Sammy Run

a dynamic but vicious opportunist attains success. [Am. Lit.: What Makes Sammy Run]

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But Minghella ambitiously, if less deftly, adds onto the project big thoughts about urban renewal and the immigrant influx in contemporary London, among other social concerns.

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For obvious reasons, motor museums tend to be ground-hugging constructions, but here UN Studio ambitiously stack cars on nine levels.

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Sent to traps a 1-20 chance - was ambitiously quoted at 4-5 on the Morning Line price guide - the May 2003 son of Stan's Boy Flyer-Go Go Cleo showed trademark early speed from the one-box and maintained a strong gallop to score by three lengths in 29.

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She ambitiously wrote to the president of the company, who was based in New York, to allow her to work at the headquarters.

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In response to these and other dilemmas, Rosen and Proctor's edited collection offers an ambitiously comprehensive look at the development of practice guidelines, conceptualized as a concrete tool for social work practitioners seeking to utilize an evidence-based approach.

Aaron Rosen and Enola K. Proctor (Eds.), Developing Practice Guidelines for Social Work Intervention

This book ambitiously straddles several areas that rarely receive substantial and equal treatment between two covers.

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They're now pinning their hopes on a prestige presence in the dramatic new C6 model which, rather ambitiously, is meant to lock horns with the BMW 5-Series.

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Even more ambitiously, Putnam "wanted to create a model for schools nationwide--regardless of the technology already in place," says Boswell.

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Pok Than, secretary of state of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of Cambodia and president of the Administration Board for the Institute Technology Cambodia, said, "Cambodia is in the position of competing with other countries in the region to ambitiously stay at the forefront in the technology development area.

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Artistic Director Adolphe Binder had been ambitiously building a repertory of works by contemporary and modern choreographers, including Blanca Li, Itzik Galili, Amanda Miller, Deborah Colker, and Rami Berlin in an attempt to establish a unique voice for the company, but to no avail.

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This void, however, is being ambitiously filled by a vanguard of visionary collectives from Aymara, Quechua, also Guarani and the country's 33 other pueblos, fomenting a new kind of revolution in Latin America--not with guns but through harnessing the newly accessible audio-visual production means of the digital age to give both voice and face to Bolivia's long-silenced indigenous majority.

Art & unrest in the Andes: Bolivia's indigenous filmmakers explore race and identity issues with a frankness that has forced these debates into the national dialogue

She, for example, ambitiously tackles how race, gender and sexuality all shaped anti-Chinese stereotypes, how the Republican Party expressed a dual nature during Reconstruction, how postbellum party politics featured studied racial appeals and how citizenship reinforced racialization.

Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States 1848-82

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