But while he is now playing football regularly with other boys in Maiduguri, he has a more practical ambition up his sleeve, as well: "I also want to be a mechanic".
It is sentimental, its ritual is meager and unctuous, it expects no miracles, it thinks optimism akin to piety, and regards profitable enterprise and practical ambition as a sort of moral vocation.
"[T]he real barriers to mobility are matters of social psychology, the quality of relationships in a home and a neighbourhood that either encourage or discourage responsibility, future-oriented thinking, and practical ambition".
But the real barriers to mobility are matters of social psychology, the quality of relationships in a home and a neighborhood that either encourage or discourage responsibility, future-oriented thinking, and practical ambition.
It's only when his characters bypass conventional attitudes about what counts as professional and unabashedly mix business and pleasure, love and money, practical ambition and romantic desire, that they can both recognize their passions and fulfill them.
Some newcomers, however, have more practical ambitions.
Merriman relates the story of the Commune's brief rise and brutal fall in tight detail, with hour-by-hour intensity, and draws all the drama out of the tale — even though the story is unavoidably sad, because the practical ambitions of the Communards were so incoherent.
Hardly; it's the business of the sociology of any human activity to identify and question the intellectual claims and practical ambitions of that enterprise.
With the rapid development of genomics-based genotyping platforms and available of hundreds of functional genes/alleles in related to important traits, however, it may now be possible to turn this enduring ambition into a practical reality.
" He thinks there is a practical necessity to his actions which fulfill a nobler ambition".
Many Americans see the deal as a practical means of delaying, if not stopping forever, Iran's ambitions of becoming a nuclear weapons power.
