In a speech peppered with the occasional ambitious vow -- like one to make the city's school system "the best public school system in the United States of America, bar none" -- the Mayor touched, often lightly, on nearly every major city issue.
After Robert Scoble, who writes a popular technology blog called Scobleizer and who himself has 2,985 followers and 3,045 friends, challenged this ambitious vow on Twitter, Mr. Edwards twittered back that he would, as president, offset his campaign's carbon emissions by financing alternative energy research.
Valls, an ambitious hard-talk er, has vowed that the proposed changes will "continue to the end" with "the necessary authority".
The president entered office with a broad and ambitious agenda for the military, vowing to pare back "uncertain" peacekeeping missions overseas, swiftly deploy a ballistic missile shield and transform the forces with futuristic weapons that would make them lighter, faster and more lethal.
Alarmed by Eliot Spitzer's momentum in his unexpected bid to win citywide office, an unlikely coalition of business leaders, women's groups and labor unions is vowing to finance an ambitious effort to thwart the former governor's ambition.
The problem is that Fred doesn't know how to make a tepee, and because he's vowed to keep his ambitious project a secret he won't ask for help.
Yes, the laughter seems to say, we know that Vice President Al Gore comes across as a stiff, that George W. Bush appears unlikely to qualify for Mensa, that President Clinton has strayed from his marital vows, that Hillary Rodham Clinton is ambitious.
In the 2016 presidential election, Sanders staked out the most ambitious climate platform of any candidate, vowing to slash carbon dioxide pollution 40percentt by 2030, end fossil fuel subsidies and ban fracking.
More than 300 million Indians are still without electricity, a statistic Narendra Modi, the prime minister, has vowed to cut through an ambitious electrification programme.
Less than two weeks ago, Trump presided over a televised, bipartisan meeting at the White House, where he boasted of standing up to the National Rifle Association and vowed to pass the kind of ambitious, meaningful gun legislation that his predecessor could not.
He made a "brotherly call" to Africans, vowing to work on controlled immigration and ambitious development plans.
