But in a world of weak and failing states, are we also to abandon ambitious hopes to help build stable and democratic institutions abroad?
The president, who has two years left in office, laid out an ambitious agenda to help strengthen the middle class.
Other, less ambitious devices to help paralyzed patients include wheelchairs with specially equipped control systems that can be operated by the mouth and teeth movements of a quadriplegic.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has done his successor a huge favor in laying out an ambitious plan to help the city cope with a changing climate.
"This government is therefore very pleased to support Bob Blackman's private member's bill, with its ambitious measures to help reduce homelessness".
Even if blacks and Hispanics make progress in the years ahead as the economy improves, the persistence of the wealth gap has pushed many public policy scholars to recommend the adoption of more ambitious programs to help reduce worsening inequality.
Responding to criticism that Europe's farm subsidy program hurts African farmers, Mr. Chirac announced ambitious proposals to help the troubled continent's economies, including a moratorium on subsidies on European exports to Africa.
Where the pickup artists promised to make guys better sexual salesmen (sexual consummation was called "full close," as in closing a deal), Peterson, more ambitious, promises to help them get married and stay married.
On Reading's website, Nick Candy gushes: "NRPR [Neil Reading PR] has guided us in formulating an ambitious strategy to help boost our profile and meet our niche target audience.
The magnitude of violence, which the police say is committed mostly by drug dealers using combat weapons, has pushed the new Socialist government to lay out an ambitious plan to help this city of 800,000, described by Interior Minister Manuel Valls as "in great distress".
