You could hardly blame postmodernists for rushing in where architects of more substantial ambition feared to go.
In it, the council leaders made 27 pretty major demands but made a point of saying they "remain adamant they will only agree to a mayor and the costs of introducing one if the powers and funding on offer from government match their substantial ambition for the city region's economy, infrastructure, jobs and housing".
He is that rare thing: a writer whose substantial ambitions are matched by an acute understanding of the way people actually behave.
However, the success of the Ghilzays was not to last long, as they were challenged both by their fellow Pashtuns the Abdālīs (Durrānīs)—and by the plans of Nādr Qolī Beg (later Nādir Shah), a Ṣafavid subordinate who harboured substantial ambitions of his own.
Luft saw quickly, in the nineteen-thirties, that Hollywood was the place for him, but he had substantial ambitions of other sorts as well.
These steps will add momentum to efforts long underway and enable the best political staff in America to move with all due haste toward fulfilling our substantial ambitions.
Delivering even a substantial fraction of its ambitions will entail pulling hundreds of levers with an extraordinary dexterity that has so far eluded South Africa's rulers.
There is a substantial gender gap in political ambition; men tend to have it, and women don't".
Recently orphaned, Lang moves to Williamsburg with a substantial inheritance and the vague ambition of joining the Brooklyn literati, only to imperil his assets and his dignity with alarming frequency.
When he began to work with bottle caps, Mr. Anatsui undertook a substantial upshift in scale, and in artistic ambition.
In 1928 and 1929 Evans made a substantial number of photographs that unmistakably indicate artistic ambition.
