Although through hikers like Mr. Skurka are stars in the world of backpacking, the average North Country Trail trekker has little ambition to complete the entire trail.
And why is it necessary to resort to war this week while Saddam's ambition to complete his weapons programme is frustrated by the presence of UN inspectors?
A typical combination user of both tobacco types was a Norwegian boy with divorced parents and ambitions to complete vocational studies or only one year of upper secondary school.
Ambition and Ability He was the pre-eminent military officer of his generation, a soldier-scholar blazing with ambition and intellect, completing his meteoric rise as a commander in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
From the time I was diagnosed in high school, I was intent on ensuring that my medical issues did not get in the way of my ambitions, and even completed my academic courses around the time of my diagnosis while completely bedridden.
"The suggestion that there has been a watering down of ambition is complete nonsense," said José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, the European Union's executive branch.
The lifelong fitness fanatic, one of "Los 33" miners rescued last month from the San Jose mine in Northern Chile, achieved one of his personal ambitions when he completed the New York City Marathon in five hours and 40 minutes.
A spokesman for the Bletchley Park Trust said: "The ambition of the Bletchley Park Trust is to complete the restoration of the site, and to tell its story to the highest modern standards".
But their ambition – or complete lack of it – was depressing.
Eddie Anderson, general partner, Pentech, said in a statement: "We love to work with founders who have a combination of global ambition, complete dedication to their mission and a true grasp of the realities of how to build businesses in a capital efficient manner".
