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.
But if they act in ways that are seen as more "male" — like "act assertively, focus on work task, display ambition" — they are seen as "too tough" and "unfeminine".
Shaw has previously displayed ambitions beyond its traditional cable business.
Design-led hotels are not new to Amsterdam, but the Conservatorium upped the tempo when it opened last year, displaying an ambition that must have taken a fair amount of Dutch courage.
The stuff of the story is miserable and often sordid – the narrator's brother has a brain tumour in childhood, with catastrophic effects on the whole family – but McBride weaves something dazzling from it, displaying huge ambition at a time when female writers are too often consigned – or consign themselves – to the chick-lit category.
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.
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.
And on Tuesday night, Mr. Obama displayed the ambition and the sweeping vision that won him the White House — and that this crisis demands.
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.
