A semi‑final against Germany or Greece will follow for the winners and England head to Kiev with the kind of confident assurance that would barely have seemed plausible when Hodgson was parachuted into this job, with only a matter of weeks and a handful of training sessions to put together a team of authentic coherence and ambition.
Mr Bush caught an authentic whiff of this ambition when he teased Mr Prodi about the new Roman empire.
Some families, though, believe that a traditionalist approach to Christian education is limiting, and Patrick Henry was designed to appeal both to the protectiveness of these parents and to their ambitions, promising an "authentic Christian environment" as well as preparation for "careers of influence" in politics.
I see Clinton as authentic in one specific area - ambition.
The movie is about ambition and self-fulfilment, commercial imperatives and authentic black music and selling out for money and fame as opposed to standing up for integrity and self-expression.
As for me -- I'm taking time off, delegating more, and allowing myself to be more authentic as a woman in my approach to leadership, ambition and company growth.
As Mr. Bush sees it, the vice president is an engineered man, not an authentic one, with an unnatural upbringing and unnaturally intense ambitions.
Stingo's resentment at this - the idea that his train has arrived too late, that his huge literary ambitions may be for naught - is one of the authentic emotions behind the book".
"Perhaps authentic old age," he writes in this often insightful meditation, "can consist of neither the breathless ambition of the forever youngster nor... unremitting despair... but something meaningful in itself".
We do have control over the professional image we put out there -- including being authentic, unapologetic, and simply matter of fact and low-key when reacting to life's "little ambition obstacles".
A Radio Shame transistor broadcasts the artist's trips to Asda ("I've been called authentic twice this week. I think they mean I'm working class") as she proclaims her creative ambition to get "the insides on to the outsides".
