He won election to the Assembly in 2000, developing a reputation for championing government reform issues, and displayed ambition, raising more than $2 million in a bid to succeed Eliot Spitzer as attorney general.
Villarreal are newly restored to the Spanish top flight, a club that had graced a Champions League semi-final seven years ago having risen again at the first attempt from the second tier and displaying ambition of their own by spending more than £6m on another former Tottenham player, Giovani dos Santos.
Shaw has previously displayed ambitions beyond its traditional cable business.
Unlike jihadists, anarchists did not target innocent civilians purely for the sake of striking fear into the hearts of the populace or to display their ambition.
Renaming themselves as plain IS to display their ambition to create a caliphate that will transcend the national boundaries of Syria and Iraq, where they now roam across a swathe of territory bigger in area than the state of Jordan, the jihadists are behaving even more harshly towards the Yazidis, whose religion is a mysterious accretion of various faiths, including Zoroastrianism.
But you can forgive the failings in a show that displays such ambition and flair.
He had no political profile and displayed no ambition to acquire one.
One Web site reported that his car was attacked by disgruntled supporters of the fallen politician, Bo Xilai, who is awaiting punishment for having displayed overweening ambition.
Just as women who display "masculine" ambitions or behaviors on the job are often penalized, so are men who engage in traditionally female behaviors, like prioritizing family involvement.
And on Tuesday night, Mr. Obama displayed the ambition and the sweeping vision that won him the White House — and that this crisis demands.
