Mr President, both reports are expressions of the well-known ambition to extend the power of the EU institutions at the expense both of the Member States and ultimately, therefore, of democracy Of Mr Di Pietro's report, I can only say that it concerns a matter belonging within the remit of the Council of Europe and not of the EU.
But behind the deal is another Hewlett-Packard ambition: to extend the reach of its dominant printing and imaging division, which rang up $20 billion in sales this year, 43percentt of the company's revenue.
The ambition to extend the federal district's powers of self-governance became linked, and to a large extent shaped, by the crucible of civil war and its aftermath.
And we retain our ambition to extend it further.
Jeffrey L. Bewkes, the president of Time Warner, told me in an interview that YouTube made perfect sense for Google — even at $1.65 billion — because the deal had to be viewed in the context of Google's ambitions to extend and evolve its search advertising platform, rather than as a media play.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9 — When Google acquired dMarc Broadcasting, a company whose software allows marketers to place ads on radio stations, for up to $1.24 billion early last year, it was seen as a clear sign of Google's ambitions to extend its dominance over Internet advertising to other media.
Iraq, more than Afghanistan, has become regarded as a test case for U.S. ambitions to extend the reach of democracy in the world.
The plans form part of Facebook's ambitions to extend its reach beyond its 1.2 billion audience, thinks Ovum analyst Mark Little.
Both Israel and the Palestinian Authority fear Hamas' ambitions to extend to the West Bank.
(Mitchell himself is thanked in the acknowledgements, as is one Tony Blair – McCann's ambition clearly extends even to his recruitment of research assistants).
