Both the movies and the series take it for granted that the world will end in the semi-near future if a computerized mechanism called Skynet achieves its goal of exterminating humanity and replacing it with cyborgs of dubious ambition and character.
He aims to lever North Korea out of the bomb-building business, and to part Iran and others with dubious nuclear ambitions from dangerous bomb-useable technologies.
Halberstam's subject is illuminated, of course, by the fact that Korea was but the first of three American conflicts of his time that presidents ordered for dubious strategic ambitions, without the comprehension of either Congress or the public.
There has always been a deep chasm between commerce and art, and there are those who choose to spend their lives in the study of subjects that have deep intrinsic value to them while having dubious commercial ambitions.
The dubious dream lives on.
The fairytale villain received his comeuppance yesterday teatime as the Ashley and Cheryl Cole marriage – a multi-million-pound conflation of sport, ambition, dubious miming and good looks – reached its dénouement.
From this incident Rand was inspired to make the victim a businessman of great ambition and dubious character, who had given multiple people motives for his murder.
If the all-too-real logistical and financial difficulties are not enough to swat down such ambitions, certainly the dubious prospects of acquiring grapes and equipment and enough money would do the trick.
Johnson dips into populist paranoias about the EU's Mein Kampf ambitions and Barack Obama's dubious birth.
