This plausibility brings vividly to life a plot that can sometimes strain credibility: Macbeth, incited by a witches' prophecy and the promptings of his ambitious wife, kills Scotland's king to win his crown; emboldened by further prophecies, he believes himself invincible but is finally killed in battle by a man "not born of woman".
The Chinese authorities have presented her as a bloodthirsty and ambitious mother who killed, they said without providing specifics, to protect her Oxford- and Harvard-educated son, Bo Guagua, now 24.
So much for Sezmi's ambitious plans to kill cable TV: the assets of the cloud-based TV delivery platform company were recently acquired by KIT digital for approximately $27 million in a mixture of stock and cash.
The detour has come courtesy of a familiar nemesis: DC lobbyists who, this year alone, have watered-down, gutted, or out-and-out killed ambitious plans for reforming Wall Street, energy, and health care.
Everyone realized that encouraging the ambitious kids to leave was killing the town, but the ambition of the children was valued more than the life of the community.
The memorandum provides the most detailed accounting of the events and decisions made aboard the Deepwater Horizon before the accident on April 20 that took 11 lives and caused a so-far unchecked torrent of oil to pour into the gulf, and comes as BP prepared an ambitious "top kill" procedure in a new effort to stop the leak.
He booted Luis Giusti, head of state-owned Petrleos de Venezuela — and killed the ambitious oil expansion.
But it's hardly surprising that Rasmussen is leaving Google given that the search giant killed his ambitious Wave project barely a year after it was first unveiled.
In May of 2010, two bright, ambitious graduate students were killed in a motor vehicle accident in rural Maine.
Dr. No introduced the many recurring themes and features associated with the suave and sophisticated secret agent: the distinctive "James Bond Theme", the gun barrel sequence, his initial mission briefing with M, "Bond girls", the criminal organisation SPECTRE, narrow escapes, Bond's luck and skill, his signature Walther PPK and the licence to kill, over-ambitious villains, henchmen and allies.
