General Azhari, the Shah's chief of staff, is sixty-nine and is noted for his deliberate ways and lack of ambition.
Nkrumah's story is instructive, because it formed the backdrop for Annan's coming of age, and because it is a story of a deliberate political life, driven by ambition, defiance, and fixed ideas, which makes it entirely unlike Annan's story.
She is the wife of Joseph C. Wilson IV, who criticized the Bush administration for what he said was a deliberate misrepresentation of Saddam Hussein's ambitions to build a nuclear weapon in order to justify the 2003 Iraq invasion.
Whatever reservations one might have about Roth – another, I would suggest, is a certain impenetrability and deliberate rebarbativeness – one can't question his ambition or his commitment.
There was in the person and there is in the work such a mixture of genius and modesty, ambition and gentle irony, innovation and deliberate unoriginality.
This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts Stalinism as a cruel and deliberate attack on Russian society, driven by "totalitarian ambitions" and the goal of modernizing and rationalizing a backward people.
With that in mind, here are a bunch of people whose political ambitions should be extinguished with all deliberate haste.
They are grandiose and somber, deliberating from a distance over cultural memories of sublime ambition by using sampled shards and remnants, swathed in latter-day distortion.
A choice that has been masked by deliberate evasiveness and obfuscation on all sides, by vague ambitions dressed up to sound hard and specific and, above all, by the political cross-dressing of the two big parties.
More recent studies however suggest that Eutharic's Amali ancestry may have been a deliberate invention on the part of Theoderic to aid his ambitions of establishing dynastic credibility.
