But as often happens with peacekeeping, France got stuck, and its mission morphed into something much more ambitious and dangerous.
Although I use it dozens of times every day, I can't say I'm Google's biggest fan: too big, too powerful, too ambitious – too dangerous.
When our team first learned of Malala's story, we were amazed how a girl, a child by many country's standards, was able to spearhead such an ambitious and dangerous movement, willing to raise her voice to whomever would listen, fully aware of the consequences from those that wouldn't.
Dick Conant's transcontinental canoe trips were ambitious, eccentric, and dangerous.
One police official described the units as "narcotics lite," noting that they did not engage in more ambitious, and more dangerous, undercover narcotics work.
But hawks in the Pentagon and conservatives in Congress, who view China as an ambitious and potentially dangerous competitor in the Pacific, have been uneasy about the improving relations.
Historians and philosophers still debate how anti-democratic Socrates' teachings were; there is strong evidence that the execution of Greece's greatest philosopher was at least partly an act of scapegoating for the actions of the brilliant, ambitious and often dangerous politicians whom, as youths, he had educated.
Even in a less ambitious and more dangerous scenario where nations only honor the climate commitments they've already made, IEA shows lower demand leads to a $30 decrease in oil prices.
The Finkler Question is a terrifying and ambitious novel, full of dangerous shallows and dark, deep water.
Before this can happen, it is crucial thatall countries set out national targets on emissions well in advance of the Paris talks, so that other participants can assess the targets – which would lay out cuts into the 2020s and beyond – and can see whether they are sufficiently ambitious to head off dangerous levels of climate change.
