He penned a tell-all autobiography, "The Confession," in which he confessed to many things, including a lifelong addiction to "having a public," and described his new ambition as attaining "a life organized in harmony with my heart".
He ruled out any multibillion-dollar transactions -- "for financial, but more importantly strategic reasons" -- and he made it clear that UBS had no ambition to attain the size of global banks like HSBC or Citigroup.
Having worked tirelessly at the Bank of England for 32 years with the sole ambition of attaining the top job, Paul Tucker will effectively have his first interview for the governor's role tomorrow when he becomes the latest guest of the Treasury select committee.
Władysław however, like his father, had the life ambition of attaining the Swedish throne by using his royal status and power in Poland and Lithuania, which, to serve his purpose, he attempted to strengthen.
By the mid-1980's, however, it had become clear that these ambitions could not be attained by instinct alone.
Instead, the show asks us to believe that Peggy, Mad Men's mousy secretary turned mousy copywriter who had no advertising ambitions at the time, attained her position simply by making a clever pun to the right male superior at the right time.
LONDON — Eoin Morgan will not know until Thursday morning whether he has attained his lifetime ambition.
Oil over troubled waters Another fine mess Reprints Related items Where business meets geopoliticsMay 25th 2005What America would have done if it had attained its lofty ambition may never be known.
He attained his literary ambitions after all, and lives on in his magnificently ridiculous book as some kind of great man--the most awkward kind, the man we call a force of nature because he reminds us of nature's force.
It has been apparent for some time that their ambitions amount to attaining either of the indignities of ninth or 10th.
There's just one problem: Someone in power, close to power or even harboring the vaguest ambitions of ever attaining power is about as likely to allow television cameras to follow her around as she is to post Facebook pictures of herself smoking a joint in a hot tub with someone distinctly not her husband.
