But Mr. Burkhardt had global ambitions, which included the privatization in New Zealand and running several freight lines in Britain.
But the most common green building standards, Mr. Landau said, fell short of his ambitions — which included avoiding any on-site use of fossil fuels.
The president's opponents see such proposals as window dressing to accompany Mr. Chávez's polemical re-election ambitions, which include expanding presidential terms to seven years from six.
Ambitions which include launching a completely new version of Second Life, as well as making it work with the now-Facebook-owned Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.
Japan, in particular, expressed concern about Beijing's ambitions, which include the building of artificial islands and air strips on disputed South China Sea reefs, and stepped up its own defence spending.
The West Ham chief executive added: "This now allows us to concentrate on our immediate ambitions, which include a strong finish to the Premier League season and possible European qualification, without any negative impact on our long-term project.
That will allow a bigger payload for each unit of fuel a boon for China's space ambitions, which include taking a bigger share of the commercial satellite-launch market, putting an unmanned rover on Mars around 2020, completing a manned space station around 2022 and possibly putting a person on the moon in the coming decade, too.
Born at the end of the Civil War and fascinated from an early age by the very idea of Africa, Sheppard "treated the missionary job title as an umbrella under which he could pursue his multifarious ambitions," which included an explorer, a big-game hunter, an anthropologist and an art collector.
Alfonso V of Aragon, Skanderbeg's most helpful and important ally, also suffered a blow to his ambitions which included a pan-Mediterranean empire.
This threatened to seriously damage the company's ambitions, which included establishing a manufacturing plant in the U.S. However the company has since switched focus to militaries in regions like Asia and Africa, which has helped turn the company's fortunes around.
