Sentence examples for ambitious land from inspiring English sources

So I think we need to think again about more ambitious land reform," he said.

Under an ambitious land reform drive, Mr. Shah, a sharecropper all his life, got title to nearly one fertile acre.

Long associated with shuffleboard and all-you-can-eat buffets, cruise companies have been fighting that image in recent years by rolling out ever more ambitious land excursions — from helicopter tours over Alaskan glaciers to cooking lessons on St. Thomas.

"If we take a broad international historical perspective, we see in many countries, in history, much more ambitious land reforms than what we have seen in South Africa since the end of apartheid.

Last month, to the accompaniment of traditional dancers and musicians, Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, garlanded with flowers and mounted on a Chinese tractor, officially launched his ambitious land reform by handing out 2,301 titles of state-owned land.

The administration has also signaled a retreat on Mr. Clinton's most ambitious land conservation measure -- a Forest Service rule protecting 60 million acres of largely untouched national forest land from road building, new oil and gas leasing and most new logging.

SINCE the Scottish Parliament embarked on an ambitious land-reform programme to give tenants the opportunity to buy their land, the glens have been alive with accusations of Mugabe-style land grabs.

The distinctive shapes have begun rising from the sea, and with a twin island planned for next year, the $3 billion project is considered the most ambitious land-reclamation effort since the Hong Kong Airport.

He has overseen an ambitious land-preservation program, begun reseeding Peconic and Great South Bays with scallops and clams, and chosen a vendor for an islandwide Wi-Fi network, which would be the nation's largest, if it works.

In the past century, few parties can boast leaders as diverse as Lazaro Cardenas (1934-40), who nationalised the oil industry and jump-started one of the world's most ambitious land-redistribution programmes, and Carlos Salinas (1988-94), Mr Zedillo's predecessor, who ended land reform and sold off most of the state's assets.

Fletcher's masterful biography penetrates the myths surrounding Díaz de Vivar to expose a warrior who was neither a crusading zealot nor a nationalistic hero, but a man of his time: an ambitious, land-hungry mercenary who used his martial prowess to achieve advancement.